001in >> session. Interesting. And we're going to start with our taking positive steps of service award. >> Yeah. So, we have a taking positive steps for service award for Casey Persix. from Casey Canada. Um, this was uh nominated for this by coach Cody Edris. Um, so I'm reading it in my best coach Enders voice. I want to take a moment to reflect, thank and honor Casey Perszik for all he has done for the Lo school district of Loi since last August. While Casey's been a wrestling coach for Loi for the past 5 years, he went all in during this school year and truly helped the students in our district immensely by filling many different roles, wearing many different hats, and doing all jobs with care and kindness that we've come to adore from the Peric
002family. It was August that Casey first started his student teaching experience here in Loi as a business education teacher in Loi High School. Casey worked full-time as any staff member would, unpaid, while also finishing up his college degree in the area of business education and obtaining his teachers license from DPI. Additionally, Casey still found time to be the varsity be a varsity wrestling coach, help with crew youth wrestling, be an amazing father to his young two young kids, and help plan his own wedding. In January, once finished with student teaching, Casey jumped right in as a substitute teacher in the school district of Loi, filling needs and boys to support students and staff, Casey went wherever he was needed. In March, after his wedding, Casey was a long-term substitute teacher at Loi Elementary School in
003OSC for FIDE and continue to sub in other locations as well. Lastly, this summer, Casey will be taking on the roles of middle school BFS summer lifting coach and working with our fifth to eighth graders. It's extremely important role in the district, and we're thrilled that Casey will be one leading our young student athletes. We're so thankful for all Casey did in the school district of LOI during the 2526 school year. We're excited for his future as a BOI teacher and coach. CONGRATULATIONS. YOU. >> I just appreciate uh there's so many of you here uh to help me get started with my student teaching and obviously made a huge impact in uh my uh growing up and through school. So, uh I can't thank all of you enough um for helping me kind of finish
004everything up hopefully at this point. So, thank you. >> Great. Thanks, Casey. So, >> here's a plaque or a thing suitable for framing. >> And then since you did all that unpaid work, here's 100 grand. Trying to make it a little bit better. Thank you. >> All right. I see firsthand how dedicated this guy is. And >> Cody did hit on all the points. He's a great dad and he is devoted to these kids. He will do anything he can to get there. So, I appreciate having in my family and >> mother-in-law would be inviting all those nice things covered up there with my head. Think she would be good at this. I know. 1 2 3. >> You can stay for the whole board meeting because I know you really want to or you
005can go. >> I was going to say you got >> I was going to say Sky might want you to leave too. So You get the highlights from your mother-in-law later. >> Casey, >> there you go. >> And now I'm very excited. We have a presentation on the Washington DC trip. >> Yeah. Good evening, Bo. Yeah, you guys head on up there. Um, so we're excited to have our eighth grade students. They put together a presentation to tell you about their experience in Washington DC. Uh, so I want to introduce Kennedy Drury, Caleb Schaefer, and Miles Watzinski. And unfortunately, uh, Josie Bane wasn't feeling well today, so she wasn't able to make it. Um, but I'm going to turn it over to them to kind of tell you about their trip. >> Oh, shoot. I'm
006the clicker. >> My name is Caleb Schaefer and I'll be sharing about our trip overview. We left Loi Middle School on March 14th at 5 in the morning and arrived back at Loi Middle School on March 20th at 10:30 p.m. We drove about 870 miles just there on coach buses and had around six stops down in the bottom right. We all got aliens from Ohio that were like little claw machines and we were in Washington DC for three days and Williamsburg, Virginia for two days. I'm Miles Wzinski and some major sites we visited was the National Cathedral, the US Capital, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Mount Vernon. Some fun facts were the dye that was used for the pink windows is more expensive than gold. And in Mount Vernon, we saw how the
007people lived in the older days. in DC. Some other experiences we visited were Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown. Here in Williamsburg, we learned about jobs and what it was like living back then. Up here is we learned about glass blowing. And then over here was Yorktown where we mainly learned about when they the original settlers and how they lived before. Uh some direct links to eighth grade social studies was the Declaration of Independence where social studies provided some of the background knowledge, but being able to actually see it in person brought it to the next level and it also built on what we know for the Constitution and Bill of Rights. But what I liked the most was the Battle of Yorktown. >> Uh the memorial that impacted me the most was the 911 Pentagon memorial.
008A fun fact or just a fact about it was that the graves were shaped like the airplane wings and if they were facing towards the left it was it represented they died on the plane and then if they were facing the right they died in the Pentagon. >> The site that left a lasting impact on me was the Euima uh because it shows incredible courage and sacrifice of the soldiers who fought in World War II. The uh image or the picture of the soldiers holding up the flag represents determination, teamwork, and hope. Learning about the battle reminds me of human cost of war, importance of honoring those who served. Overall, DC was a great experience because we had a lot of bonding time and we got closer as a grade and I recommend anyone who
009has the chance to go should definitely do it. The memorial site that impacted me the most was the Washington Monument because it was my favorite and also it has some great meaning behind it. The meaning behind the Washington Monument is the immense respect, gratitude, and awe the nation felt for having its first president and founding father George Washington. It also symbolizes the devotion to freedom, democracy, and leadership while also embodying the enduring strength of the United States. Another fun fact is that over here you can see that it was built with two different stones. And the reason behind that is because we were going to continue building, but we ran out of funds and then we had to go to a war and then we had to go with a cheaper stone because we didn't
010have much else to be able to build it. >> Uh thanks to all who made this trip possible. most importantly to the school board for approving loading eighth grade to go on it. Miss Christensen for organizing our tour guides and meals and then the families for putting money together to let your kids go. >> Any questions? >> You guys did amazing. That was awesome. That was great. >> That was really good. >> I have a question. >> Go ahead. >> No, you go. If you had a chance to go back again, what would you go see again? Each of you, >> you go first. >> I think that I would like to go and revisit the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier because it was a bit crowded there and we weren't able to get much
011video, but the changing of the soldier was pretty cool. >> Yeah, I agree with Miles. We uh we there was a few schools ahead of us, so we really didn't get the best view. We all had our phones up like this just hoping we would get a little video of them exchanging. >> Uh probably the Holocaust Museum because it's very eye opening and learned a lot of facts. >> Okay. I was just looking at the questions you had here. So, how DC was built and the purpose of its location. Do you know what that is? You know the answer to that on the spot. >> I know. I'm put you on the spot. >> That's cuz I don't know and I I was curious. >> I'll Google it later. >> Does anybody here know? >>
012I think the original capital was more north. >> Capital moved a few times. >> Yes. And then they moved it to DC because when it was more of Union and South, they wanted a more Right. >> Um, middle location. I think >> that makes sense. >> Okay. Sorry, >> Emily. >> That girl is a sponge over there. She knows everything. >> Um, the on slide seven, the Eioima. Was that at the Marine Base Quantico? >> Yeah, >> I've been there. My daughter's >> so Josie, if you wanted to go back and see the Holocaust Museum, would you consider going on a Germany trip? >> Probably. >> Yeah. Good. >> Good. >> Caleb uh was mentioning before he wanted to tell everyone about the elevator uh experience. >> On our first day of the trip, about
01320 minutes before we had to leave, we crammed 20 of us into an elevator, got stuck. Teacher from Indiana. We there was like no cell service so we really couldn't call our teacher. >> They just wondered where you were. >> Yeah. And when we did call our teacher, she texted us saying that she couldn't answer and she would call us later. >> How did you get out? >> Uh I think event like we told her it was an emergency and then she was talking with the hotel staff. They just they kept sending us send signing us up and then like dropping us floors just to see if I think if we could like latch up to a floor. What was the capacity of it? Was it >> there? We were looking for that. There really
014wasn't a >> It was a pretty small elevator, so probably like 10. >> Definitely not 20. >> Are you like scared of them now forever or No. >> No. I mean, as long I just know not to cram 20 people in. >> Learn the lessons. >> We also had a interesting experience cuz there's a tornado watch. >> Oh, you're lovely. >> And when there's a tornado watch, they shut everything down. So, we were planning to go doing more tours of I don't remember where we were supposed to >> and it was just a watch. When I get a warning, they shut it all down. >> And that's what all the kids said. They're like, "This is just a tornado watch. This is not a big deal." But they shut the whole all of it down.
015So, we went back and hung out at the hotel and the kids were awesome there. We had compliments everywhere we went uh for how respectful our kids were. Um, and they did an amazing job. I I didn't know I was going to go like being in a hotel for three hours with all of our eighth graders, but they were so chill and they just uh sat in circles and played games and really had a great time connecting with each other. And then we kind of did some improvising and ended up going to a movie uh later that night, which was a great time, too. >> Oh, nice. >> That's awesome. >> That is awesome. So, I went on this when I was back in middle school, and >> I wish I love when you guys
016do this because I loved it, but I wish I had more appreciation for it when I was that age. And I feel like you guys have that. So, it makes me very happy because it's just such a neat trip. You get to go to so much stuff. Like, if you actually did that on your own, it would be way more expensive and not nearly as fun. Look at the group you get to go to go with. So, I appreciate the teachers and the staff and the students and the families signing up for it because I just think it's amazing experience and I'm so glad that you guys went on it and I love that you tell us about >> Has it been though? >> It's been a long Mr. Hillicker started. >> Mr. Hillicker started
017it. >> It's probably been close to 30 years, I would say. Not more. It's more than >> Oh, does that mean Well, I am 30. So, >> Oh, you're older than 30. >> No. Yeah, cuz we went on it. So, did you get to go? >> I did not go. >> Oh, >> but I went with the eighth grade two years ago and then I I was actually on this one, too. It was a great great experience. >> Yes. He missed Casey Pers's wedding because of this. >> So, that's how much it means to him. >> Uh, we had Norah Mack, which is Maddox Maddox Mack's mom. Uh, Paul a ton, which is Greg's mom. >> Heman. Miss Heinesman, which is Miles's mom, and then Mr. >> Pborn. Missed >> I think 60 >> 61,
018I think. >> 61. >> And it's just open to eighth grade now, right? >> Correct. >> Okay. >> It used to be open to >> seventh. That's what we have today. >> I think it's better with just eighth grade. I think that would I think it's a good choice. somebody who's trip. >> Thank you guys. >> We appreciate it. >> Thank you guys so much for giving that >> guess the door. such a good photographer. >> The board. >> Good job, guys. Thank you so much. Thank you. Now we're all going to remember why DC. >> All right. So now we're going to go through our consent agenda items. We have our minutes. We have many pages and pages of vouchers like always. We have our fundraiser request. We have soccer snap fundraiser. Our football
019entertainment cards fundraiser. Hey Sorry. >> Byeball fundraiser. >> We have our fun. We do not have any fundraiser reports. No field trip request >> and we have some committee recommendations for approval. Under curriculum, we have our annual textbook approval and high school dance team is going to be a little change in programming. And then under facility, we have our credit cards, fees, and athletic ticket and crew pricing. Under other, we have our WIA senior high membership renewal and our auditorium director job description revisions. Uh we have no retirements. We have some resignations. Assistant boys varsity soccer coach, high school math teacher, middle school special education assistant, three of them, health room assistant, sixth grade math language teacher, middle school volleyball assistant coach, high school ELA department chair, and seventh grade language arts teacher. Just so
020everyone knows, there is some switching around. We're not losing all of those people. They're just doing some switching. We are losing some, but it sounds scary when you see it. Under co-curricular, I am not going to read this because people will fall asleep. So, but um it is as listed and feel free to go on the agenda to look for everything, but it's pretty much nothing crazy. It's all of our sports. >> Um >> yeah, we just do all the co-curriculars this time of year for all of next year. So, that's why they're all there. Every June, we put them up there. So that's a really long list, but it's our normal we do it >> every but it is kind of awesome to see all everything that >> happen all the different things that
021happen behind the scenes, right? >> Yeah. >> Um under um community program crew, we have a administrative assistant and then we have two cheer helpers under regular staff. Uh, five summer cleaning crew, seventh grade math, language arts and support teacher, high school FIED health teacher, early childhood 4K teacher, primary school special education assistant, middle school special education assistant, summer school teacher, middle middle school administrative assistant, auditorium director, wheeler tableing, and high school math teacher will table. And under personnel, we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, leave without pay request. >> Make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. with the additional approval of the football entertainment card fundraiser and volleyball fundraiser. Also table the auditorium director and math teacher. I'll >> second that motion by Scott, second by Terry. Any more
022discussion? >> All in favor? >> Anyone opposed? >> Motion passes 70. And now we move on to our administrative reports. And we will start with Boda Elementary OSC. >> Hello board. Thank you. So just a couple things I wanted to highlight as we look at um ending the school year. Uh first of all our strategic plan is the impact team and I have been starting to look at our strategic plan in uh refresh and then also our current um identity I would say of what we believe as a building as well. And so thinking about how making some goals for that starting for next year. Um, but just a good reminder and a good time to reflect on our our progress this year, but also start to think about next year. Um, also fifth grade
023graduations happen. Um, OSC fifth grade graduation and LE fifth grade graduation. Um, these fifth graders are a great crew of kids. Um, we're excited for all that they're going to do into the middle school and I know that Mr. Pritzborn will enjoy them and the staff there as well. Um, but we're super thankful for the staff staff who uh put these uh celebrations um together. It's a great way for us to be able to honor these students and also um their families and then wish them good luck in their future. Um I put a little quote on the bottom of that that is very true um not just to our fifth graders but for when students change from year to year as well is one of the hardest parts about being a teacher that you
024create a little family then you have to say goodbye every single year. Um and I will tell you our staff are feeling that this year um and our students as well somewhat. So, um, field day though is a great, uh, fun celebration day and we had beautiful weather. Special thanks to Cody Andress and Deian Klenchmitt for all the work that they do to put this event together. Um, each year we also get feedback on uh, from our staff on how we can make that better and we made some little tweaks this year and I think it really went well. Um, also special thanks to parents and the PTO uh, who came and helped during our um, Kona ice time and helped supervise kids and helped that be successful. Um but it's just a great day
025um with students and celebrating the year and getting outside. And then also just thank you for your belief in me. Uh again, some things that I uh really do think about each day is how little I know, how much I am needed and how truly needed. There's nothing earthshattering. Um we just show up, we do our job, and uh we get to work with these amazing kids um but also this amazing staff um that I'm so lucky that you all support so well. So, uh, thank you for making it another great year at least and OSC and looking forward to next year. >> Awesome. Thank you, Lai Middle School. >> Good evening, board. Um, so we're going to start out with pillar one preparing for the future. Our sixth grade uh had Elon Deer come
026in and talk about the solar panel installation and they did an awesome job with the kids and they got out the boom truck and that was really exciting for the kids. Unfortunately, you can see it's kind of like raining there. So, the solar panel, they had it like hooked up to make something work, but didn't have enough power cuz it wasn't sunny, but uh the kids said it was a great experience and they did an awesome job. Uh so I appreciate them putting that on for us. Uh under pillar 2, nurturing the whole child. Uh we had our second annual end of year celebration and for that we do a variety of different things. We have some competition between the grades where they play different games. They do some cup stacking. They do how many
027uh notes you can stick on their back. You can see the group in the middle there is doing a puzzle. Um, but one of the coolest things they do during teacher appreciation week, all of our students create shoutouts um for our teachers and they had I think they probably had 10 different students come and just read their shout out for their staff member and it's just a really great way to honor our staff and and just shows the connection uh or how important like each individual person is uh in our school. Uh moving on to sixth grade dodgeball. So, we had some I Ready incentives for our kids and in sixth grade uh they meant their reading uh incentive. So, they got to play dodgeball against the sixth grade team and their principal and uh
028I would like to tell you the staff won. Uh but we we went again we went against each home room and uh we lost every time and uh we could not have played any more dodgeball games. So, I was glad when it was over. But uh no, it was a great time. How many games did the staff have to play? >> Five. >> So, we played against each home room one time. >> And then we still had extra time. >> Joe Will's like, "How about they just play against each other?" And I'm like, "That's a great idea cuz we're sweating." And uh but no, it was a really great time. And congratulations to them for all their hard work that they've put in and all the growth that they've shown this school year. Um, want
029to recognize our band, uh, which went to the Kalahari to the Beyond the Notes Music Festival where they play for a clinician and provide them with feedback in an effort to strengthen their musical skills. Um, we had 86 uh, seventh and eighth graders go uh, with our band, which is an incredible number and want to thank uh, Ashley Gbronson for organizing that event for our students. Um, we also have our annual all school trip to the Kalahari, uh, which was an amazing day. Um, the kids are just great, uh, on this day. They do an awesome job, uh, just being independent, um, taking care of each other, staying, uh, staying with each other. Um, so just a just a great day. It was a little stressful getting checked in when I got there and I
030said, uh, hey, I'm Derek Pitzborn from Loi Middle School. And they went back and looked at all of their things. And then they brought me a school and they're like, "Is this you?" And I'm like, "Nope." And uh then they're like, "I don't think we have you down for today." And I'm like, "This is not good." Uh but we're coming. The buses are on their way. No. But then our our stuff was in a different area, but I got a little nervous. And then I ran the credit card through to to pay for the trip and uh there wasn't enough on there to do that. So uh it was not it was not a good start to the day, but we got it done. Uh it was good. It was a great trip overall though.
031Uh, Pillar Three Community Connection. Uh, so we had 38 sixth graders that volunteered for the sixth or the fifth grade sneak a peek. So they come to fifth graders come to uh the middle school and our sixth grade experts give them a tour and it gets really positive feedback every year. And I'll be honest with you, I've never been on a tour. So like we practice in the morning and and I'm up front greeting families and sending them off with kids and the feedback is always that it's it's really great. I think the kids um the sixth graders I think feel really good about it because they can take some ownership over their school and being the expert and I think the fifth graders really appreciate that like there's a kid there and that's like
032they've gone through the experience so they know what kind of questions they uh may ask and uh yeah no they do they do a great job every year. >> Well and I think it's neat because they're just making a connection for the next year too. >> Absolutely. um for district workforce. Um one of the things we've been pushing for the last five years since I've been here is PLC's uh which are professional learning communities and we continue to grow in that area but I just wanted to acknowledge the growth that we've had and our staff is really feeling this. Um so last year when we took the survey of I think the question is I have grown as a teacher because of the time I spent in my PLC last year 7% strongly agreed and
033this year 28% strongly agreed and I think it was about 72% of our staff said they had grown from it. Um the biggest thing that we have like the is our staff and their collective knowledge of teaching, their collective knowledge of working with kids and uh PLC's represent a time for them to share that with each other. Uh and to me that is the best professional development that that we can have. Um what else? Oh, and then just want to thank um our staff for a great school year. You know, school year is a lot for staff. Um, I think it's an extremely difficult time, but it's also extremely rewarding. Uh, our staff works very hard, and I just want to thank them for all they do, all the thoughts, uh, they put into supporting
034our students. Um, they go above and beyond and care so much about the kids. Uh, I just really appreciate them. Um, and then I also want to acknowledge we did have a staff member pass away and I did put it in our board report. Um, but just want to acknowledge how important each staff member we have is. Um, and you know, as an example, um, Dan Mcchznney passed away a couple weeks into May and, uh, he was an educational assistant and did an amazing job connecting with kids. Uh, and it just takes it takes each individual person, uh, to really have a great school. And during our eighth grade graduation, we show a slideshow and they showed a picture of Dan and all the eighth graders cheered. So, it was really great uh to see
035because it just really showed that amazing connection he had with so many kids um >> each day. >> That's awesome. Thanks, Derek. Uh Leai High School. >> All right. Thanks, Heather. Uh first of all, uh I want to thank everybody for being in our uh 2026 graduation commencement ceremony. Uh special thank you to Heather and Vince for speaking on behalf of the class of 2026. Thank you, Heather, for getting through it without >> I know I did >> crying too much. Great. Um, and then you see the list of all the other people that it it takes a lot of people to to make the graduation uh commenceing ceremony happen. And so you can see all those people. I do want to specially recognize Mason KDson, Michelle Ps, who are the senior class adviserss and
036do a lot of things behind the scenes. Um, not listed there that I should have is Delmore Nursery who brings all the plants that you see. They do a really good job. They bring tons of them. So they they drop them off and pick them up at the end of the day. So uh drop them off at the beginning of the day, pick them up at the end of the day. So I appreciate them. Um and then in the bottom lefthand corner are very um handsome uh beautiful looking school board. Um >> I appreciate you guys so much for being there. Um all right, next page. >> Uh senior honors night. So we did have our senior honors night in May. There's a lot of information there. Things that stand out. $130,000 in scholarships from
037the community. 119 scholarships total. Um, I do want to recognize Jill Gort and Grant Lumpkkey. Jill Gort especially the amount of work that she has to do. She spends most of April and into May getting ready for that event coordinating all of the community members that come in. We did something different this year. We put our seniors on the stage. So, if you notice that picture, that's them uh sitting there very uncomfortably sitting on the stage in front of the audience. Um it cut the the amount of time it took to hand out scholarships instead of them walking them up for every scholarship. Um so I think that's we'll continue with that next >> and you get to see the kids that are getting it. Sometimes when they did that they do it so fast
038you don't even know below. >> I mean you might know their name but you know seeing them is just nice to be out there >> right >> and if you want to feel like amazing at our community you guys go to that because it is so crazy how many scholarships community members are giving to these graduates. But I love it back stories too of >> um like what the motivation was to establish this. >> Yeah, the presenters do a really good job. >> It was a lot but it was like totally worthwhile to hear from all of them. >> No. And they do well doing it and not taking 20 minutes which they probably easily could you know but it's it's it's a night I like that night. It's >> they do a great job.
039>> It's fun. Friends of McKenzie gave a scholarship too and now I can't remember the name. Uh was it um was it um Juniper? >> Yes, it was Juniper >> doing the environmental >> Yes. And that should have stuck with me. Yeah, she's doing environmental studies. >> Um other things related to graduation weekend, we had the graduation walk and I wanted to thank our our other principles in the district for allowing us to come into the schools. They don't just, you know, let us walk through their schools, they get ready, they make signs, they cheer, there's music playing. So, um I really appreciate Derek, Amy, um and Eric for everything they do to get to prepare for that senior art science. This started um near during co um it's a great great way to celebrate
040and represent our students. And I do want to recognize Pam Cunningham who actually um this year she was the one that designed them. She did a great job. Um and then also Jill Gourd for helping Pam and I set them up on Sock Street. So, they did a great job. Um if you haven't been to Sing and Swing, you need to go to Sing and Swing someday. So Sing and Swing is our music boosters um celebrates our kids in the arts and it is always amazing. In fact, that is a picture of them at the end singing Good Night Sweetheart, I think it is, >> which they do at the AC capella thing that they do at the ACA. >> Yep. So, um really talented. Nolan Perzborn was one of the MC's. Um I've never
041seen that kid talk so much. >> Oh, that's funny. >> Great job. >> I was nervous. He is quite that takes a lot to get up there and just kind of like be up there. MC did a great job. Um >> state track qualifiers. Um this was put in before state had taken place this past weekend. So we did have an opportunity to do a drum line for them which was awesome. So uh Bennett Nyquist, Riley Wilcox, Mattie Skellinger, and Aubrey Shunnman. Bennett got a third and a fifth and the 300 in the 100 hurdles. Um, >> other noteworthy worthy Aubrey Shunnman got 10th, but she was the top freshman in the state in the 3200 mile run. >> So, they did a great job. >> Um, I >> and they had a major rain
042delay and super hot. >> Yeah, it's either really hot or there's always a tornado warning or some type of major rain delay at the trackmate. Um, >> I'm going to let Emily talk a little bit about this. Um, I do want to appreciate the SAPS club for everything that they do for our school and this is just the tip of the iceberg. um allowing our eighth graders come over to learn a little bit about some of the activities they can do. This is the first time we've done this and we're definitely going to do it again. I >> think it's an awesome idea. >> Yeah. So, I'll let Emily talk a little bit more. Um as we go down, uh I we did a school communication survey. So, we survey we try to survey everyone,
043but 209 students uh replied to this survey. Um and it basically talked about um a few topics. One being announcements um and where are they getting their information? How do how what's the best way to communicate with them? This was something in our strategic plan we kind of started, but we really want to implement some things next year. I'm not going to go through the entire survey. You guys have that in front of you, so you can take a look at that. But we learned some valuable information um not just about like announcements and our advocate videos, but also about like what is best for all the kids that are in athletics and all the other activities and the apps that they have as far as getting communication from coaches and everybody else. I like
044the one uh I'm listening to music. >> The responses are great. >> The little green mark in the pie is very little, which is good, but it's I'm listening to music. >> Yes, I'm listening to music. So, I'm the one that does the announcement does not surprise me. Um, okay. >> But it what's really quick, sorry, it's just refreshing that social media wasn't number one >> because that age usually I mean hearing it over the loudspeaker was most popular. That's >> Yes. >> Except the person listening to music. except for the kid listening. Um, I wanted to thank Rob Hatch. Uh, he did this at all the schools. He provided ice cream. Rob's done that for the last three or four years, which has been awesome. Advocate videos, you can see them. The top one
045is the 250th birthday celebration that our advocate kids put together. They put one together and then I made them go back and do it again because um, I think they I think they when I explained to them exactly what they needed to do, they made it really really funny, almost too funny. Um, so they got a little bit more serious about the celebration, but they did an amazing job when it came down to it. And that's one of the things about working with the advocate kids is they send me it, they show it to me, and they're very much into feedback. So I give them the feedback, they go back and they re sometimes start over and sometimes they just tweak some things. So >> So somewhere there's a bootleg uncut version. >> Yeah, I
046was going to say >> there is. And I have access to this really. >> No, it's it's fine. It's just a little bit too satirical for celebrating. I mean, if you watch the other videos, they're very funny and they're it's very much satire in a lot of ways. But anyways, uh and then the last part, um >> if you want to take a look at all the pictures that were taken by Hley Gelanick and um Audrey Parart, um did a great job during graduation, which is a little stressful because you want to get every single one of them. And >> and I appreciate the input as far as like um flipping it so the graduates would come to you guys first. >> Loved that. >> No, so much so much easier. That was we knew
047that was coming in >> and I know the parents loved it too. >> Yes. >> That have been through it before, you know. So >> I think so. >> I'm glad. Thank you. It was awesome. >> That is the high school report. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Y >> uh curriculum. >> Okay. Thank you board. Um this first item is something we reviewed in detail at the last curriculum committee meeting of the board and uh we have a phenomenal turnout of educators once again educator teams that are collaborating this summer and doing summer curriculum work we call it. Um they're doing a variety of great work like actively updating lessons, aligning with standards, doing professional development and diving deep into data to maximize stinging student learning across all grade levels. So, big thank you
048to all of the educators that are um working already this summer. We have a group in tomorrow and we have a data team meeting. >> That's a long list >> on Thursday and a lot going on. >> Uh speaking of data, our latest spring district benchmark results are ready. So, this is our uh local data, things like I Ready, Ames, Web, etc. Not our ACT or forward state data. That's not available quite yet. Um the curriculum committee will be conducting a detailed review of our growth and then our achievement and how it compares to Wisconsin averages and national averages at our upcoming meeting here in June. As I look at this data, I saw positive results in every building. Um, I was especially reminded though about the incredible solid foundation that our primary school creates
049for our students in the district and the part that Amy Fospender has played in that success dur during her time with us. And as this is our last board meeting, I just wanted to say thank you to Amy for uh setting us up for ongoing success at the 4K level. And then lastly, community partnerships. I know that Derek touched base on this already, but a big thank you to to Upper 90 and Elen Electric for making time to connect with not only our sixth graders, but also some of our freshmen as well, giving them incredible hands-on opportunities to talk about career pathways within their industry and get a direct uh link to our solar project that's going on. It was very fun being up on the roof. >> I was going to say they're on
050the roof. That's fun. Nick, let me ask you about this summercurricular time. >> So, >> this seems like a very impressive list. It doesn't just seem like >> regular everyday stuff. Is >> is this unique to I I realize teachers all over are doing summer curriculum, >> but is this like different than other schools or >> um it's it's a process that uh I conducted in my former district as well, but our teachers put a lot of thought in it. There's a form that they complete. uh the form asks them to justify their project proposal and how it connects to our current curriculum or curriculum they'd like to uh bring in or connect to and our strategic plan. Um that is then reviewed by the full administrative team um and it fits within to the
051budget aotment that we have set for that. So it is a process and then they get a notification of approval and so it's >> so the administrative team is looking at this going wow yeah >> work going on the work that happens in the summer >> drives our district forward >> and has a direct impact on um students for the upcoming school year. >> So we budget for that. we have a certain budget we set aside and so we're always having to cut some requests that are made or tear down some requests but the administrative team does a really good job um going through that making sure just as as Nick said that the information or that what what we're approving is what we need to approve but the district needs to move forward and
052and is connected to what we're already doing. So appreciate all their work on on their behalf as well. >> Thanks Nick. Uh okay. Okay, so the preventure program was completed with seventh grade students at Wodai Middle School. The students were assigned to one of the four personality types according to a brief survey they completed earlier in the year. Alcant completed all four of the pre-venture groups at the middle school. Thank you to Mr. Perzborn and Mr. Franklin for their support and piloting the program. Graduation letters were sent out to all graduating seniors from Loi High School. The letter is a reminder to celebrate the graduation season responsibly and to keep students in the community safe. The letter included signatures from the district administer, Lodai High School principal, LCAT director, and the chief of police at
053the Loi Police Department. We are fortunate to have a new police chief, JessicaWami included in the letter. Summer safety fair in th on Thursday, June 11th, 2026, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Loai High School. This will be in conjunction with summer school open house. Vendors will be on hand to discuss how to keep kids safe during the summertime. All community members are welcome and this is a free event to attend. Youth art show is in conjunction with the um city art show on July 4th, um 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Hoverman Park in Loi. The youth art show will be in conjunction with the LOA Art Club's Art in the Park event. Youth who are interested are still able to sign up. And I'm just letting people know that it's good to
054have cash in your pocket for them. They don't have squares. >> Cash or check. Okay. >> So, because they sit there and they're waiting and they have really nice stuff. Um, LCAT is looking for volunteers to help with National Night Out. National Night Out is on Tuesday, August 4th, 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Lewis Burns Park, Harmony Grove. Um, it's in Harmony Grove, even though that's a LOI address. Attend the next LCAT meeting to learn more or reach out to Brian or Sarah for more information about volunteering for this event. LCAT is hosting a national night out planning meeting on Wednesday, June 17th, 9:00 a.m. in the morning here. Um, let's see. LCAT's next meeting as far as a regular meeting is on Wednesday, August 19th, 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. at the school
055district office. And that be it. >> Awesome. So there's no meetings this month or in July. Just August is >> No, there is this one that the will be in July. It's I mean rather Wednesday, June 17th, but that's the national night out planning one. >> I see. Okay. Okay. >> Right. So it's not a regular meeting, it's the planning one. >> Thank you. Sorry about that. Okay. Uh student services. >> Thanks, Heather. Uh first the district provided a career exploration experience for 16 students in grades 8 through 12 at AllCar and Loi. Um during the visit students toured the manufacturing facility, observed different employees doing different jobs and learned about all of the trades and career opportunities that are within that um facility. Students got a taste of that real life experience while they
056were on the production floor and gained firsthand exposure to the technical skills and teamwork involved in the company. Um, this hands-on career exploration opportunity provided valuable insight into a local manufacturing career and the educational and training pathways to support them. Next is activity day. LOI hosted activity day on May 21st at Hoverman Park. This was the end of the school year celebration for the Tri County transition team. As a reminder, that team is a social cohort existing of students um in the 18 to 21 year old transition program from Barabou, Columbus to Forest, Soft Prairie, and Wanke. Um, so participation supports their social, emotional, and mental health, encouraging independence and self- advocacy, promoting that lifelong learning and recreation skills. Students were able to expand that social network, gain valuable real life experience, and develop a
057stronger sense of belonging within their communities. And finally, on June 4th, following our staff breakfast and uh our end of year kind of ceremonies, all of our educational assistants throughout the district came together um to first of all talk about students needs going into the next school year as a transition um meeting time. So that was the first part of our meeting and then also our conversations um during that time were focused on student interest and their strengths. Um we talked about those successful strategies used during the school year and how to continue to maintain and grow those in the following year. Um assistants were also given a thank you card that included notes of appreciation from teachers and administrators. Um I had sent out an email I don't know maybe a month ago or
058so and very quickly our assistants received 214 notes of appreciation through that email. So the themes um on are here listed for you to be able to read as well. So just a big shout out for that work group and how important they are for our students. >> Wow, that's a lot. Thank you very much. Wow, your email box must have been really full. >> Uh Loai Primary School. >> All right, we've had a busy week report. >> Um so it's been a busy few weeks. We've had the uh start with LODIA pride event, spring concerts, 4K picnic, kindergarten celebration, grade two parade, uh our final family gathering. We had um LOI em um EMS visit. We had undercover dressup days, ice cream truck for staff, retirement celebrations, and more. Um I did want to
059just take a moment. Um this is a picture from me six years ago. I just wanted to thank the school board, administrative team, staff, and community for helping me be the leader that I am today. um for my first day. People welcomed me into the community with open arms and it's been a joy to serve alongside this team. Um I'm proud of the accomplishments that we've done together and we'll treasure this time forever. So, thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Um I should have done that at the end. Um next I want to just highlight Wisconsin Act 95 video and birthday cards. The students um have been busy working on doing that. There's a video that we've put together um sharing what this is and then the students created some different cards and
060we've got pictures and things that we'll be highlighting and um sharing out shortly with that. Um with pillar one preparing for the future, our teachers have uh grade level SLOs's they work together and all of these really help go um towards helping us reach our goals for the scorecard. So a lot of celebrations all the grade level teams made um met their SLO and surpassed it. Uh so 4K thinking about uppercase letters and lowercase letters. Kindergarten um the AS web reading readiness screener their goal was 75% and they hit 89% of them making that goal. First grade their goal was 75% of the students at or above the 25th percentile. Um and they also accomplished that as well. It's they're broken apart a little different ways there. And then second grade was 75% of them.
061Um and they hit 84%. For pillar two, nurturing the whole student, we had a load pride classroom challenge. Uh classrooms were able to share a way that they have demonstrated loi load pride and then the blue devil came and they got a picture taken with that. Uh for pillar three, I just wanted to thank um we have several individuals that are reading pals and they come every Friday and help support students. Um they work a lot of times with our students, not maybe our most striving students, but kind of like that next level and help just build a positive relationship with them. So, I wanted to thank those individuals for that. And then at the very bottom, Heritage Park edition uh with Strive with Loai Pride. We um the generosity of this community is amazing.
062We have this playground structure that will be coming um shortly. Um we're hoping to install that. July, I believe, is when they're going to try to do this. So, this will be a climbing structure that goes behind Sarah Halens that she had had last year there, too. So, a great addition to British Park. >> Awesome. Thank you. And last but definitely not least last but defined a lot of what we were thinking about. Um so I decided to keep this one a little little shorter. Um, but on June 1st, which was the first day of finals, um, your finals really only go until like what, 1:30 to doish. Um, so SAPS club put on the club fair. Um, I kind of talked about this a little bit last time, but it's um, kind of like
063the job fair if you're familiar with that. They had tables and um, representatives from each club and uh, eighth graders got to come in, walk around um kind of go to different clubs that they might seem interested in. And they had this sheet that they could fill out about their interests, when they would meet in what room. And then they also were able to have little place like name card things with that they could put their name on and drop a slip. Like they had three slips. They could drop their slip at a club. So next year that club can reach out to them specifically and be like, "Hey, last year you seemed interested. here's when we meet like let's get you started so they don't have like this did they start yet or like
064what's going on right >> um >> that's awesome >> so I want to give a thank you for all of the help we had putting that on um with all of the um administrative help and teachers um and all of the club members that decided to stay after finals. So yeah, so the eighth graders just walk over like and all eighth graders >> all the eighth graders walked over. >> That's awesome. I think it's a great idea. So this was Urttz's project and when she came >> as a freshman, she was afraid, right, to be a freshman. >> Yeah. >> And she said that she wanted to do this project >> to calm the eighth graders, to get them to understand it's a wonderful place and you can come over and they'll be welcomed when
065they get here. So that was her motivation for doing this. >> Yeah. Well, my daughter came home and said, "Do you know they have a SAPS club at the high school?" I said, "Yes, I do know that." And she told me all about it. So, good work. >> She'd have never known until, >> you know, next year if you guys had done, >> especially just because the beginning of ninth grade, especially high school in general, so overwhelming. So, this is going to, like you said, just kind of make it more like, oh, I'm excited about this or >> knowing freshmen, they'll bring a friend, >> right? >> Yeah. They won't want to come along. >> That's true. Yeah. We try to have as many um like lowerassman freshman people be representing them so they're like,
066"Oh, I've seen you before." Like, "You're a freshman. You're a sophomore." >> Like, at least it's a little bit more familiar than somebody that they've never seen before. But, >> um we did what we could. And then just a little shout out to the softball team. >> Yes. >> Um because they're going to state. Um they won a very, very close game against Adams Friendship on Thursday. Um and they will compete on Friday, June 12th in Madison. >> Woohoo. We're in Madison, are they again? >> Yeah, we're in Madison. >> Field, right? Is that the name of it? >> Diamonds. >> And can I add a little bit to that if you don't mind? Um, so we are going to get information. I've been working with Nate Severs, the fire chief, about they're going to
067get an escort out of town um at 9:30 in the morning because they're going to leave pretty early to go watch a few games. They play at 2. And there's also more information out there. you can see it in Facebook and on our our website about all the details as far as getting tickets and all that kind of stuff. Um so yeah, that'll be happening. We don't know exactly what the route's going to be. Um so we're working on that and we'll get that information out to the community as soon as possible. >> Awesome. >> And on another important note, those girls can play in the alumni softball game and then 2026 is going to win. >> Yes. >> So they have this whole thing planned out. They're very excited. Yeah, they are. They are.
068>> Focus on what's important. Nice. >> Thank you, Emily. >> And we will move on to Dr. Stein's report. >> Uh, so end of the school year. I just want to thank all of our students, our staff, and our families for a great school year. Uh, it wrapped up officially on June 3rd for students and June 4th for staff. On June 4th, we were able to recognize staff for their years of service and our retirees from the district. Um, a special uh, thanks to our retirees for the tremendous impact they've had on our students, our schools, and our school district community. So, I want to thank Neil Ryel, our director of building grounds, Rick Briskkey, custodian, Krie Rashid, kindergarten teacher, Sue Chambers, reading specialist, Amy Chelnik, high school English and steam teacher, Jim Mckeler, high
069school Spanish, Renee Moldenhower, high school special education teacher, and Mo Palmer, administrative assistant to the board and direct district administrator. >> I'm glad I did not wear mascara that day. That was emotional. There's a lot of people and thanks to the board members who were there to help with that. Um staff really appreciate that as well. Uh district balance scorecards and student balance scorecards. So the district is putting the finishing touches on the stoplighting the district and building scorecards that has already and has already started the process of creating new scorecards for next year based on the refreshed strategic plan. As a reminder, these are the tools the district used in implementing the strategic plan each year. The new scorecards will come to uh the curriculum committee in August and will be approved at the
070board meeting in September. So, we're just turn around that process. >> We're starting a new one now. >> It is. It is uh referendum projects. Just uh if you're aware, the district will be kicking off two major referendum projects in June. Phase two of the high school roofing project began at the end of last week with staging materials. Um there's also some major c cabling project that started today at the elementary school in OSC and will also happen in this building as well. Um so um and this building will be closed um the week of July 6th through 10th um and really closed like a lot of times we're closed but there's people here but they will be putting in cable so there's no internet um and then they'll be coming and cleaning after that.
071So that week after the 4th uh this building will be closed and be clean. Um, one other thing, just a reminder of the board, uh, this seems far off. Um, but the LOI fair is coming. Fair time is fun time. Um, and as you remember, uh, our board members have to choose, uh, artwork. >> Oh my gosh, >> so I will put something in the weekly notes and we will send you an email um for you to choose um, grade levels and then you'll have to send your um u your choices to Jill. two hours at least for next year. So, I'm just I'm just putting on your radar, right? It's it's almost a month away, but it'll be here before you know it. >> I think I spent almost two hours just looking. >>
072Oh my god. How do you choose? It's so hard. And it's not about first, second, and third. It's about your personal art preference. >> My kids kept trying to tell me which ones they liked, and I was like, "You guys just go do your own thing. This isn't what I feel. felt, >> you know, like kind of like connected to those. So, >> well, a big thank you to obviously the art gets there, but it's first of all, our art teachers. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> Whitney, Techla, and Dwayne, but then um our fair coordinators who helped get it there, right, Michelle, Whitney, and >> take it all down. So, we really >> when it's usually 90°, >> right? >> And like get it all back to the kids. >> Yes. >> With their little
073$2, you know, I love it. ribbon. >> And finally, I'd just like to say again, thank you to Amy for her leadership. Um she's fortunate enough fortunate enough that she took a chance on us. >> Yes. >> Um and uh has done a great job in leading uh the primary school. We wish her nothing but the best as um she leaves us, but she's done a great job um and left a great school and a great place for Sarah when she comes in. So, we are so appreciative for the work you've done, Amy, and thank you. Um we're forever indebted to you as sort of the families and students here in the school district loai. Um and the same goes with Jason Marshall um who also will be leaving us. Um he has done a
074phenomenal job for the past 13 years in the district. Um the last six as the assistant principal. Um >> the only great thing about Jason Lee, we got one one less Cub fan in the district. But otherwise I will miss him and all the work he does. Um and being able to talk about baseball and football. I'm a Cuban Bears fan. >> Ask me that. >> What are you going to talk to about? >> You were still here. >> I don't know. >> So, we will miss Jason. He's done a phenomenal job. So, >> as well. >> Well, thanks, Vince. And yes, I want to say that too. Amy's last board meeting, Mo's last board meeting. >> Oh, it's pretty vital to the district and we are going to miss you guys immensely. Yes. >>
075But Jill's going to do amazing and we've already warned how annoying we are. So, All right. So, now I no longer have one of my most beloved roles as a LOI school district parent. Still feels weird, but crying sessions have started to diminish. But as this chapter is closing for me, I'm excited to put even more time towards one of my other most beloved roles as a school board member. Seriously, I am thanking the community on behalf of my family for giving me this role. Otherwise, life would be way worse for them and in turn or for me and in turn for my family. I have so much passion and love for this role and I'm excited to put even more time towards it. And no time could be better for that extra time since
076we have the dreaded R word sneaking up on us. As I said in the past, we as a district have already been putting so much time and effort into the upcoming referendum and now it's time to get down to the fine details. I'm pretty sure I can speak for all of us board members about the lack of sleep we are getting right now. This is the first time I've been through this process as a board member and I can't thank the community enough for helping us along with the survey results, the numerous emails, phone calls, and conversations that we are having with everyone sharing their insights and opinions. All of your comments and concerns are important to us. With that said, things don't always get communicated correctly, and I've heard some misperceptions out there. We'll
077be having listening sessions, and we'll be putting out as much info as possible about the referendum details. But one thing I would love as school board president is to ask the community once again, I know we are so needy and I apologize for that. To please not assume anything when it comes to our district. Ask questions, bring up your concerns, and please don't stop until you feel informed about our district and what we are doing. Please look at our website, email us, do your own research if needed, and get the answers that you need personally. It'll absolutely break my heart if anyone's vote is based on false information. We know that everyone is constantly adjusting to things happening in our community and in our world. So, please don't ever think for a minute that the
078LOI school board is not thinking through every detail of what we are asking from our community. We try to look at all of our decisions from numerous perspectives and are constantly trying to benefit as many of our students as possible. This ref referendum is a community referendum, not a schoolboard referendum, not a district superintendent referendum, and much more than a district referendum. This is a community decision, and I want everyone to feel part of it. Okay, so enough our word talk. I promise I was not dared to say how many times I could say referendum in one report. I would like to end my report thanking the community and the district for a beautiful graduation ceremony. It's always great seeing full stands for our ceremony supporting our graduates. I want to congratulate all of our
079students for finishing the year strong and hope you feel proud of yourself for completing another year of school. I also want to thank all parents, teachers, and staff for getting through the last few weeks of school with our students energy levels bursting through the roofs and the attention spans dwindling. It's always so exciting at the end of the school year, and I truly appreciate everyone's patience and support for our students. I still remember the feeling as a student and the bittersweet feeling as a parent. I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe summer. >> Nice. >> Thank you, brother. >> Yes. >> All right. So, speaking of that rword, here we go. Referendum 2026 discussion. >> Yeah. So, um the district has been working diligently to engage our community through the referendum process. Um the
080district has held community engagement sessions each of the last four years to share information about the progress of the projects of the 2022 referendum. the reason the district relies on operational referendum, what's the money's been spent on during as well as the operational referendum and the need to replace that operational referendum and then the work that we're doing looking at facilities uh and green space and things like that. So, uh I have a a overview uh presentation kind of just to walk through. Um this is all very familiar to the board. Um, we've been through this uh several different times, but I just want to make sure that the committee members can hear this as well and as we walk through it. Um, so please feel free to interject board members when you need to.
081Um, so first and foremost, everything that we do in this district drives from strategic planning. So we did a strategic plan in 2021. This was the strategic plan. We brought the community into the room. If you remember, we did that at the gym at the high school. uh had over 100 people in there uh for two nights. Uh we had a community group that we have stakeholders that the board chose to help drive that. They ran the tables. They took the data. They're the ones who helped put this together um and brought this back. And this drove everything we did, including the 2022 referendum, right? Just a reminder, that referendum is a $5.98 million referendum operational through the 2627 school year. So, it goes another this next school year. Um, there's 3.85 million for operations
082and 2.13 million for projects. I talked a little bit about some of the projects that are ongoing still, and we'll have another summer of those projects after this summer. But the other thing that referendum did was allowed us to maintain staffing, to maintain programs, to provide interventions, and the result of those have shown up on our school report cards. So last year the 2025 Wisconsin school district accountability report LOI had the 10th highest score amongst 4K through 12 school district in the state of Wisconsin. >> And how many school districts are there? How about >> 400 some >> um the school district our district was the highest highest rated in Dayne County, Colombian County and in our CISA. All our schools receive exceeds expectation or significantly exceeds expectation. Our high school ranked 13th out of
083400 plus public high schools. Middle school ranked 28th out of our 350 public middle schools. And district's growth score ranked third in Wisconsin and its achievement was in the top 20%. Um and the bottom line is also very important. We had 90% 7% of our students participate in state assessments. Like it wasn't just like we were just picking and choosing. We had everybody doing that. And it shows. Another way to look at it, which I think also brings it home. >> This is the top 20 school districts by if you use a state report card. Here's Loi, Nlaris, a couple. Every is really kind of clustered around the Milwaukee suburbs, some of the private um schools. So, it just kind of puts it like how how we uh stand out in the state. Um, and
084again, that wouldn't have happened without the last referendum passing and having the supports in place for us to do the things that we do. So, when people ask like, well, what happens with operational referendum money? That's what happens with it. We use it, right? We we have smaller class sizes. We can provide the interventions we need for our students, the supports they need. But it's not just test scores. We could do all this other great stuff, too, right? Was mentioned state softball, right? Uh we planted 2,000 trees this year. Who else does that? Um mock trial, uh science classroom, uh one of our schoolboard members on the stage, right? Um a musical and all the other great things that we do each and every day all come because of our community supporting our schools. So
085steps B that we took based on that strategic plan though was like we increased our communication. We had, you know, annual board community engagement sessions and we talked about the referendum with the community, invited them in to talk about where that referendum money is going. Uh because that was one of the things that happened um you know when I first came and the first referendum is like what happened to that money? What where how's that being spent? So we as a you as a board have met with the community every year to have that conversation. We've also been looking at staff compensation models like how can we uh because we have to look at our district workforce and then operational excellence and it talks about budget forecasting studying the future needs to ensure operational viability
086that's where our community viability team got its name right we have to look at not just now but into the future so that's that's the work that this board has done and so the board has a lot of resource documents uh that they are going to be looking at or have been looking at over the last month well month years I shouldn't say months years right so we just refreshed the strategic plan um so that was finalized in December we had guiding principles that this board has put together to talk about um whether how to make a decision about going to recurring or non-recurring referendum and also how to make decisions around facilities and green space um we had a we had a community group I'm going to step back strategic We brought a community
087group of stakeholders together to run the strategic planning process. So we brought the community into the room and they reached out. We did community viability team did the same thing. Brought a community a group of stakeholders together brought them into the room and gathered information. So getting information from our community. We've done bar budget forecasting applied population study. Um, and then we took all that information and surveyed the community again and asked more information from our community. And I know Heather said in our last meeting she's sick of this this uh this graphic, but it really talks about like this has not been right. It's going to seem to some people like they just radically made a decision today in June, right? There was a lot of work going on prior to this, right? Uh
088we started it a couple years ago um when we started talking about facilities like how do we know before we get a a community viability team together what do we know what we need? So we had people come in and look at our spaces and work with our people in the career and technical education spaces work with our coaches and help us determine like what what's what is with people working from the people working the spaces what's working really well what's not working so well. Um, and now let's look at other spaces and how other districts have done things like brand new, but also how they've remodeled some spaces and things of that nature and came up with some ideas that were brought forward to the board and then the community viability team. Um, so
089we went through that process last year. Um, last July we had uh the applied population study that was shared here. We engaged we did strategic planning last year uh right after this meeting. We had a meeting the following Wednesday to to develop the community viability team that started meeting in September. So all this stuff has been going on behind the scenes and has provided anchor information for our board to make these decisions and gather input from our community. So here's a strategic planning team in action, right? Community in the room. Um and again they you know surveyed our community they had ideas fair and so you saw last year we just talked about the fair sign was up at the fair last year gathering information plus you can get cheese skirts the best cheese skirts
090at the church. Uh we had ideas fair um so people come in so you could either do a survey or um people were interviewed or they could come in and we asked them the same questions uh so we could gather information for however people felt most comfortable and this is what developed out of that uh the strategic plan refresh um which is driving the work that we're doing now and we talked about it earlier I talked about earlier about we're now creating our new scorecards based on that um with academic excellence on top success be beyond the classroom support of an engaging culture and the support or the foundation of all of it, strong and inspired staff, operational and financial sustainability, all under the umbrella of community connections. And then we brought the CBT group
091together again, brought that stakeholders and from all different walks of life in the community and gathered their input and had them walk through um all the information because the our facility finance group has been our committee has been going through this for the last five years over and over and looking at all these different options and now it's time to have fresh eyes look at it and say what do you think from a community perspective? What would be the priorities? Then the guiding principles, the board had retreat um with uh or worked with um Drew Horwick and we talked about board develop professional development and some of the things that came out of that was developing these guiding principle documents um to help make these decisions not when they're right in front of you when
092you're emotional about them but when they're a couple years off and you can kind of really think about like what are the important factors we need to know and then right we didn't just put that all there. We also currently worked at our budget. We continue to look at our budget and that's the next item on the agenda tonight is we're going to approve next year's budget. All right. We looked at ways that we can reduce our budget. We took our health insurance off the bid, our liability property insurance off the bid. We looked at adding solar um to help offset energy cost. Um and we brought in data wrangler to help us lower our energy cost in other ways. We reviewed our staffing and enrollment numbers. Um, we reviewed staff retirees and we reduced
093$310,000 in staffing uh through attrition this last this going into next year. Um, again, always looking at ways um to be fiscally prudent as well. And then again, that all went into a community survey for school perceptions. Um, and what did we get back from that survey? There is a majority support for renewing the operating referendum at $5.98 million. Um respondents refer a prefer a non-recurring referendum setup. Um there was majority support for adding additional compensation to staff as well and asking for additional support for that. Um there was support for a $15 million building referendum which was about it was about above 50% but within the margin of error. Um so support grows outside the margin error for a smaller building or project based referendum. And the highest priority area among projects was or
094yeah for building projects was career and technical education and that came through the CBT group um as well through the the survey and uh we also asked some uh performance metrics and satisfaction metrics and we were outperforming all of our peers in that area according to our community as well. again and out as a result of them this the support we get from our community. So the board's process has been first of all develop all these processes right and have meetings to set up other people to have meetings to gather information from them or to have a meeting to talk about a survey so we can go out and survey and do all those things and then when they that process is done reviewing that information. So approving the strategic plan but then using it
095and using that to make decisions, approving the community viability team and then looking at their recommendations and using that to drive a survey, putting a community survey together, then looking at those results and helping that make a decision. And then you had special board meetings on May 27th and May 1st to really dig into all that information um and go through it and ask questions and ask for more information and those pieces. And those discussions really focused on these things. Community's priorities, which is really strategic plan, needs versus wants, providing resources and facilities to meet the needs of our students, our staff, our families, and our community, and the tax impact of all that. How's it going to impact our community? So, we're first going to look at the operating referendum, that question, right? So,
096the operating referendum uh ends at the end of next school year. Uh the reason we would go in November um is it's the biggest uh election coming up. It's a gubatorial election. So we get the most community members coming out. So it's the community school district. The more voices we have better. Um secondly, um it gives us the opportunity to plan, right? When you we did the one in April couple five years ago, we did four years ago. We did the one in April. It's really difficult to plan for the next following school year when you don't know what your budget's going to be, right? So we try most people try to do it ahead of time. We couldn't five four years ago because there was not a November election um in an odd year.
097So uh but when we're looking at operating referendum the assumptions that are built into that just so people know we are looking we have to build in assumptions. We don't know for sure if this is going to happen or not. So it's predicting five years out that our property value is going to grow 5% equalized value is going to grow across the district. We're going to have compensation increases. Um our health insurance increases of 8.6% 6% transportation increases other budget increasing that much. Fund 41, we're going to put money more into fund 41 so we don't have to put a referendum if we need to work on the track or we need to do some work other places set money aside to help plan for them, those things. And then um that there was a
098staffing reduction which reduced our budget moving forward. Um we also have some IT projects built into that. Nothing compared to what we had in the last referendum. a much more significant IT project, but we still have some IP IT stuff to be done. Some servers, wireless uh the Wi-Fi system, security cameras, firewall, so security, uh our phone systems coming to the end of life um in 2029. Um our high school clocks and bell system are coming to the end of their life, right? Again, high school seems like it's a brand new building. It's almost 30 years old. And then we talked about market analysis for staff. Doing a 90% market analysis for certified staff and then doing a significant bump for our um support staff to the tune of a dollar, a dollar and a
099half an hour uh increase. And that would be another 675,000. That was the question we asked on the survey that went out that people were supportive of. So those are all built in the operating referendum. So right now looking at the conversation we had the other night we looked at operating referendum of maintaining class sizes staff and academic sports updating technology and a market adjustment in salary for staff. Um would we could redo that at a $5.98 million rep just renewing the current one we have. So I've done a lot of talking um just kind of the wrap up for our community what we've been doing. Um, I'm going to turn over the board to kind of have a discussion about what they would like to do when it comes to operational referendum and then
100we can turn the page and look at a potential capital referendum. >> So, thank you for putting that together and going through all that because it covered everything >> it did that you've done. >> Yeah. Yeah. And there. >> Thank you guys for all your work you've done. >> Okay. So, right now we just want to talk about operation. >> Unless you want me to again I can go through all the capital stuff too and then you can talk about them both. Sometimes it just helps to break them out a little bit. >> I think just Yeah, that's fine. Let's just do operational motion on the first one and go the second one. >> So, we kind of discussed at these special board meetings most of us were leaning towards the 5.98 which obviously right
101now that is what our amount is. >> So, the amount would stay. It would have no tax increase as of now unless other things. Yes. I mean, yes. >> I do want to make it clear it's just operational. So, last time it was both. >> There there's a few small like the IT projects are in there and things like that, but it's an operational referendum. Um, and right, the tax impact um should be negligible, right? We can't predict exactly what it is, but the district's asking for the same amount of money it has the last five years. It'll be asking for the exact same amount for the next five. Um, so it should be tax neutral. Um, again, depending on all the other factors that go into your taxes, >> yeah, >> people's go up
102and down depending on, you know, >> not just school stuff that goes into your taxes. So, it's always hard to >> I have a question about it and we've probably been over it. Maybe I already forgot this, but for the 90% um did we have a breakdown of like how it would affect each of the groups and like how long they've been here? I can't remember. Did you do a comparison to like just starting? >> So, so what Jason has put together and what Brent So, we've been talking about this for four and a half years. >> Yeah. So what Brent did and now and then Jason now is after they have put together a spreadsheet that had like looking at everybody's individually. >> Okay. >> And based on the years experience, their education and
103then comparing them to >> and the districts we compared them to and I thank you for asking this question because I didn't talk about this is the uh we had a personnel committee. We've had this we had this discussion probably again four and a half years ago. Who should we compare to? What's a fair comparison for LOI? Um, and we talked about we could compare to our CISA. Um, we can compare to our conference or we could compare to our fence post neighbors. Um, and the the advantage of doing CISA is CISA is a bigger area, has big schools, small schools, and it's 35 schools. Um, but the disadvantage is we don't really compete with Steven's Point typically for teachers, right? Or Adam's Friendship. Um, so it's not really in direct competition. maybe for original
104when we fire hire brand new teachers, but otherwise um people don't usually leave us to go to Stevens Point unless they're moving to Stevens Point. Right. Right. Um >> so CISA seemed like not a very good um connect. We still look at our CISA to make sure we're competitive. Um conference kind of the same way. Some of our schools are very similar to us. Some of them are smaller, but often again we don't often compete with compete with new glaris for teachers unless someone's moving toward that area of the state. Um, and so it didn't seem like a really true comparison. Again, we look at it. We want to make sure we have those comparisons so they're built into the system. And what the personnel committee decided was we need to look at our fence
105post neighbors. We need to look at Barabou, Pointette, Port Hage, Sock, Wanke, Deforest. Um, and then >> Columbus and then and then two other schools. And then they wanted like some of those schools are much bigger than us. >> So they wanted to also touch base on our conference people who are the same size as us. So Lake Mills and Columbus are very similar in size to Lodi um compared to like Belleville who's not that close. And Lake Mills and Columbus are also very similar where they're pretty close to Madison, right? You can live in Lake Mills and within half an hour be in on Madison or less. So you can live in Madison and work in Lake Mills. Big Mills has the other side of it as well. You can live in Milwaukee >>
106or suburbs of Milwaukee and come and Columbus the same way. You could live in Columbus or live in Madison or and work in Columbus. So they're close enough that they have some of the same similarities. So we added those two in because they're the same size schools. So that is our comparison base that our personnel committee decided to make. So when we talk about comparison school districts, it's all of our fence post neighbors who kind of touch us even over water or portage is close to touching us and then those two other schools. And then so we take those and look at okay this is an elementary teacher who has five years experience who has a master's degree. What are they making at all of these districts? And then there's enough districts that there's somebody
107a couple other people there. And then then you look at that average and we put that next star. So what's the average? What's 95% of that average? Now what's 90% to get our person to within 90. Now there's a significant portion of our staff who are within 90%. Some of them are at average or above but some are below. And so the idea behind here is to like get anybody who's significantly below so below that 90% get them up to 90%. So what we would happen is Jason and I would have to meet with every single certified and this again this is just certified staff members. I saw this question in the um survey we did like about administrators and things. This is nothing to do with administrators. We're not talking about admission. We're talking
108about certified teachers, counselors, uh those type of uh staff members, therapists and comparing them to those. then have a meeting with them and let them know like your your ad average if if we do 90% this is what we would bump you up to. >> Um those type of things. Does that make sense? >> Yeah. Would it be like an instant bump or is it like a slow >> forever process? >> No, we would have $675,000 each year. >> Right. because you have to be each year because you can't once you do it once, you have to continue it forward, >> right? >> So, we would look at in the 26 27 school year, right? If the if this if the board puts this in the referendum and then the community supports this referendum, the
109rest of this this then coming school year, we would set meet with staff and then when we issued contracts next year, they would be everybody be at 90% or above. >> Okay? And then we would have to continue to go back every year and look and make sure like people are at 90%. Because you don't want to slide below that and then be back in the same boat. Right. >> Right. We want to be able to to to look at that on a yearly basis. >> Um, one of the questions you asked me earlier today was >> I thought we talked about compensation last time and to get bump people up. >> So last time when we did a referendum, we put uh increases of 3.5% in for staff for all staff. They got 3.5%
110the first two years and that was based on the last 11 years. The average CPI increase was 1.83. So that was the average increase staff got over those 11 years was 1.83. >> 3.5 something. >> So we saw at 3.5 like if we're going to go 3.5 we will start catching up with our neighbors. And then we went to referendum and inflation hit and the first year of the referendum uh CPI was 4.7 and everyone was given 4.7 raises. We had built in a 3.5. So we had to go above that. >> So what never we never caught up because we worked on the last 11 years and then we had inflation that happened that hadn't happened since the late '7s. um which we didn't antic. That's the issue when you go to a five-year
111referendum, right? You're trying to just as I talked about before, all the things we're basing these assumptions on, they're assumptions. They can change. >> Thank you. >> That was a great description. >> That wasation. Thank you. >> Oh, I can be longwinded if I need. >> Well, and and we've heard parts of this before, but it's good for everybody here. >> It's the same question people would have. So when people ask that question, that's why we create those frequent and as Heather talked about once we board moves ahead, we will put together like sessions to talk about the referendum. We'll put together a frequent ask question document which continues to expand as we go through this process because there's questions out there. We want to make sure people are answered and they make informed decisions.
112Um whether they choose to vote yes or no, they're voting on the facts that they have. >> And they're not all watching us right now. >> No, probably there's a lot probably watching right now or watching us later, but >> yeah. I think, you know, there's nobody as a board, as a taxpayer, you know, likes to have to ask for money in the referendum. Unfortunately, with our state, school funding, there's no other choice. You have to go to referendum. Personally, as a taxpayer, not as a board member, as a taxpayer, when I filled out that survey, I filled out, let's just bite the bullet and do a recurring referendum moving forward for operations. As a school board member in this seat, I will respect the survey results >> because I don't think based on those
113results, we need to go with, you know, what we're looking at is a five-year nonrecurring versus the recurring, which >> again, as a as a taxpayer, I'm okay with >> with funding the schools. That's the way we fund our schools in this state. And I am a mom of I can say now three amazing children who had great experiences in all four of these schools and our and are great human beings and adults because of this district. >> I I'm I truly believe that had we you know we purposely moved here. We lived in Madison and my husband and I did not want to raise our kids in Dayne County or specifically the Madison school district. >> We started looking. We found, you know, a place in Harmony Grove and my stepmother at the time,
114she worked for DPI. Um she was head of uh Future Business Leaders of America for the state, which unfortunately Loi no longer has. >> We're bringing it back. >> Oh, good. She'll be happy to hear that an FBA uh chapter will be back. But um she said, "Oh, that's a great school district." And that was >> 25 years ago. >> Yeah. >> So, you know, as my kids have gone through school and I've just seen the amazing things, >> you know, and um >> the school district has has provided for my family >> and I've been fortunate enough for the last almost six years to be on the curriculum committee. >> And it's again I kudos to Vince and uh Dr. Nick um Carl's because I graduated from here in 1972 and we weren't at
115those um at those areas of high ranking in those places. We did not have a full-time curriculum director that when we went to a full-time curricular director, even if it wasn't Dr. Nick Carl, it would have made a huge difference. >> But we've got a great one. So, I mean, I'm just I love saying to my classmates, "It's not what it used to be." >> And not that we were horrible. I mean, it's I went through college. I got my degree. I'm fine. But it it was uh you know, it was not like where we're ranking now. Um so, I I think that's also part of this operational. You're not going to do that unless you've got really great staff. And even though the administrators aren't part of this, they are who leads and everybody
116supports. >> I've been a big proponent and very much in favor of the referendum that we have to act on staying at 5.98 million. Unfortunately, what that means is things that I would like to see happen with a referendum can't happen because there aren't the funds to to do that. My concern with what we've been discussing specifically at our last two meetings is that in order to keep it at 5.98 million, which again the board is all in agreement with doing and that's what we're going to work towards is right now our current referendum has over $2 million a year set aside for capital projects. And I understand we're we're knocking off some big expense items, but with what we're looking at doing to keep it at 5.998 million, that means more has to shift
117towards towards staff. And I'm a little bit concerned that over the five years of the referendum we're under, we had over $10 million for projects. than what we're looking at doing now. If we add that 400 and say account at that 150 for the IT stuff, that's about 550 a year times five years and that's a little over two and a half million >> which is one year of now. >> We're going from 10 million to two and a half million and things aren't getting any less expensive to do. And I I worry if our fund 41 is going to be able to absorb that large of a of a hit. But in order to do some of these other things specifically bring people up to 90% that's where the numbers have to be in
118order to stay up 5.98 million. My other concern about the bringing people up to 90% is there are staff in our district that won't see any of that money >> because they're at 90% or above. >> And it's not an inconsequential number of people. So, >> depending upon what the board acts on tonight, it will not benefit every staff member in the district equally or some at all. So, that's where I that's where I wrestle with what we have to do as far as the operations part. All seven of us very strongly want to put something out there that the community can support and continue the work that's being done at the district. But it's it's not without some concerns and it's not without some disagreement amongst the board and it's not without a lot
119of discussion. But that's that's where I'm at and that's what my my concern is right now about this operations going from 10 over five years to two and a halfish over the next five years and what that's going to where that could potentially put the district. So the the 5.98 million will benefit all staff in different ways though because there's health insurance increases in there, there's staff raises in there >> and >> smaller class size interventions for kids. >> Maybe I should be more specific. >> No, you made it clear 90% 675,000 >> none of the other. >> That's true. In order for us to keep this at 5 point 98, what has to take a hit if we want to do all these things is the capital projects and the capital funds account otherwise
120it it can't stay up 5.98 and I don't have the stomach to try to raise that on community and taxpayers at this time with economic concerns that everybody's living with. I'm curious because I mean you raised some of this at the last two meetings too that we had like what are you thinking about like as an alternative to this 90% market adjustment because I guess I'm unclear personally like what what are you thinking is like a better way to go about this or >> at our last meeting I think our discussion mainly centered around reconsidering the 90% send or having it as a second question >> and that $675,000 a year instead of going towards the 90% going into the fund 41. >> Well, is it possible to explain the fund 41 for people that
121are watching this that don't really understand? >> Yeah. So, a fund 41 for us is our capital projects fund. So, we put money into there every year. So, if a boiler goes down or um something else major would happen or one of our HVAC units on the roof go down, we have money set aside to pay for those things. Um so, we put money in that and then right now our referendum money also for capital projects goes into that fund 41. So, it's a segregate account. So, that's all that's used for. >> Um so, we have money going in from both regular operating referendum and then you know from the 2.13 that comes in every year. Um Scott is right. Right. that 2.13 after next year. Um and we don't have anything right now. We
122have um things designated for that money to go to. Um so we've knocked off, as he said, some of the really big projects like the roofs and things like that. But again, it's always concerning going down the road not knowing what could be future issues that could happen. Um again, uh we have fairly fairly I say great facilities, but like the building over here is fairly old. Um and our other buildings are like 30 years old. And just like your house, when things are 30 years old, things start to wear out and break and we have to take care of that. So um that is what we have fun for. We set that money aside for those types of things. Do we have or do you guys have any idea how many um certified staff
123are already at 90% or above? >> What did you say the other night? >> It was approximately 50%. >> Yeah, that's right. About 50%. >> That is a lot, Scott. >> That's way more than I expected to hear >> that are at 90%. >> Yeah. So, it's a lot more that aren't that are going to get impacted, right? >> She's surprised how many there are at 90%. >> But back with >> a good point you made. >> What Adam said is I mean, there's still benefit to those people that may not that are already at 90% or above. I mean, insurance costs go up. I mean, that was a big bump in insurance. And that is not all getting um how do I want to say that the the staff are going to have to
124take on some of that increased cost which then brings them even down farther if that makes sense with >> you know what you bring in versus what you have to have taken out >> and all of that. >> Yeah. This last year, they didn't take on significantly more in premiums, but they took on significantly more in risks, right? So, they added co-pays and added deductibles to depending on which kind of which plan you're on, right? >> District contribution went up, but >> their contribution to go up, but they took added risk on the back end of it for this year for how we did it this year. That's not always an option. Um, I want to go back to one of the things Scott said and just to clarify for people as well. Um, he
125talked about the possibility of going in an operating referendum and then having a second question for um, staffing and the board I just want to make the committee clear. The board can ask two referendum questions a year a calendar year. So, the board can do that. Um but board did that and we had also talked that we're going to talk about a possible capital referendum then that would go off the table for this calendar year if both of those would pass um then the board could have to wait and do that separately. So that's the kind of discussion um that we had. Um just so the community knows you can't ask at one point when we built the primary school there wasn't a limit on that. So there was three questions asked that year. There
126was an operating question, new primary school question, and a new gymnasium question. Um, two of those passed. The gymnasium failed. Um, but there wasn't a limit. How many you could ask? Now there's a limit to two per calendar year. >> When did they make the limits? What year? Like a couple years ago. >> Yeah, I would say I'll be guessing between now and then. Uh, before our last referendum. >> Reasoning for that. >> Um, the the legislature wanted to limit the amount of times people were asking questions. like they just felt the taxpayers were getting asked too much. So, um their argument >> change the state funding. >> I mean, honestly, you know, because then >> and we did have discussion if we were to do just the operational part, >> leave that, you know,
127at the 5.98, pull out the the staff compensation, you know, to bring up to 90%. That's our two questions. Then we that leaves, you know, still not much >> for capital projects. And then you can go back the next year and ask, you know, a capital project. Well, then the t, you know, just this is me thinking out loud. There's going to be a whole lot of people saying, "We just gave you a whole bunch of money. Why are you asking for more? We have, yes, we have taken care of some big projects in this district. this. And I know we're not talking about capital yet, but the survey was very clear on what areas for capital >> um they want to see happen, we're never going to meet all the needs, but if we
128can't keep our schools open and operating with the staff that we have, the amazing staff that we have, which is excellent, um then we don't have school district in my opinion. I mean, Sarah, I feel the same as you. Like, I I just think all of us could go around the table and, you know, there's all these great clubs and there's sports and all these things and classes that our kids take, but as a parent, I can, you know, for every one of my three kids, there's people in this room, there's people that are not in this room that have had such an amazing impact on my kids. And and for me, like, it's about the the people. Like, I also know the infrastructure. we can't let it all fall apart and like pretend that
129that's not a reality. But I I just I mean and that's why really when I ran to be on the school board personally that was my thing was like I want to be here to support the staff and that's that's my you know in in their work in in supporting kids. So >> um >> when we get to the budget and approve the budget you'll see the graph that shows 80% of our budget is people right? It's where the money goes is 80% of the >> to me the you have we have to bring those staff up to 90%. It's a it's a mandatory >> or we lose them or we don't get them >> potential to lose them. Well, I would like to move that the district move forward with a 5-year 5.98 million
130non-reoccurring referendum that maintains and supports instructional and extracurricular program and support, sets aside 151,000 for IT projects and includes a 90% market adjustments for certified staff and increased compensation for support staff. >> I will second that motion. Motion by Sarah or sorry, motion by Terry, second by Sarah Ramish. Any more discussion? I think we've all made some good points. I hope the community realizes we had way more discussion and lengthy discussion and I'm sorry for you guys sitting through even this one. um this was but this is extremely important to us and we really are trying to look through all eyes and aspects and >> and and there was a lot of discussion in our last two meetings specifically on this >> I mean >> yes >> so I don't want people that are watching
131to think it just you know boy they sure didn't talk about it much >> no we had hours a couple times so >> all right All in favor? I >> I on this. >> You want a roll call? >> I think so. >> Okay. >> I think something like this roll call. >> Okay. You >> Yes. And I say yes. So motion passes 70 for our operational referendum. So what'll happen is we will bring back like ballot language to formally approve like the ballot language after work. >> So is this always so confusing? >> Is this just >> Yeah, it's we will Yeah, this is a sample. So you can look at that and if there's anything feedback you want to give me after the meeting, >> but then we will bring back something in
132July for the formal legal >> like proving the ballot question. >> Thank you. >> All right. Next cap the other part >> capital right so um we've talked about a lot of the same stuff right and just the background but again just a reminder I had this on a slide earlier community survey result support for there's there is support for a $15 million building referendum it's above 50% but it's within margin of error um but that support grows for outside the margin of air for a smaller building or project referendum so it grows as you get farther away from 15 million. Um, and the highest priority building projects among all three key groups was career and technical education in the survey. >> And the key groups again were staff >> staff um parents and then
133non parents non staff >> the community non-parents. >> Yeah. But all that was weighted based on their >> um again so staff would have had to be in the district um for them to be counted. Uh but it was really it comes down to parents and then non-parents and 75% of our our community members uh don't have kids in school. So that was weighted to 75% through the survey um given much more weight than than our parents were given. Um and that's where that ended up and the survey results just for again I I referenced a lot of these documents. They're in our board docs. Um so all the that survey results are in there. uh revolution in the strategic planning process. All those things are there uh for the community to look at. The
134other thing was looking at guiding principles for facility and green space planning. The board put this together a couple years ago. Reconsideration look at ADA compliance and title 9. Focus on future student needs and academics, career prep and extracurricular. Consider multi-use spaces for maximum efficiency. Pull community members and students to assess facility and program priorities. Weigh short-term versus long-term cost and maintenance impacts. Maximize our value of our taxpayers and funding options. Facility priorities. Address safety, modernization, expansion needs in academic spaces, egg, tech, business, CTE, performing arts and athletics. Uh evaluate high school pool needs, renovation, replacement or removal. Consider capital projects that enhance learning environments and ensure updated support evolving educational and workforce trends. And then green space priorities. Consider bringing all sports back to the school facilities. Address spectator and parking challenges. Improve Highway
13560 field and other key areas. Ensure year-round access for students and community. Provide equitable opportunities for sports and non-sport activities. So that was the um guiding principles of the board together. Um so when we had the community viability team, one of the things that was in the survey is they ranked order the different areas um that that we were looking at. We had four buckets. We had career and technical education. We had indoor athletics, our performing arts center and our outdoor athletics. And this was the order of priority that our reviability team put them in after studying this for uh nearly six months. And they rated uh in within each of these areas, they rated one of the areas the highest. So like in the career and technical education spaces, there's a couple things you
136could touch, but once you kind of touched like the metal shop, you had to touch everything, right? Just the dominoes fell. So they felt like the entire project had to be done. There was no peacemeal milling that indoor athletics, their primary was doing something with the pool. Um not not putting a new pool in, but remodeling the pool. Um the performing arts center, their priority was in-house items. We talked about a possible expansion, but like lights, sound, stuff that matters in the house. And the outdoor athletics, the career envir uh CBT did not prioritize those areas. Vince, can you be clear a little bit about CTE is knocking down walls and reconfiguring the spaces within the building and >> Yeah. So, >> it's a major renovation. >> Yeah. Career and technical education would be in
137the egg room knocking down there's a small room behind Mr. Anderson's room right now. Um, which is kind of like a storage space. It would knock that wall out um and provide his because his classroom is really cramped if you've been in there. Um, and so it's small. It would give more room. But we get some lab stations and running water in there so we could do labs a little bit better. Um in the um in Jamie Lick area um one of the things we have right now is we have our woods and our metal shop are in the same shop um which causes causes some issues and we don't have enough space. So for example uh Mr. Lick would like to offer welding and have it dual credited with METC. We don't have enough
138welding stations to do that. >> And they're teeny tiny. >> And there's I was just going to mention it's really hard to even teach welding in there because there's not enough space for two people to be in the booth. >> Um so we talked about expanding that area. Um making a dedicated woods area, making a dedicated um metals area, a dedicated um fabrication area. Um because right now the fabrication, a lot of that equipment is in the classroom. Um, and so when that's running, it's really hard to hear in there. Um, and then moving his classroom, um, into a different area, um, and into a different classroom because then we would take his classroom and turn into lab spaces. Um, and then also increase the visibility. If you go down there, it is just like
139block walls and you can't see in, but you go to the art room, right? You right next to it, the art room is windows, you can see kids working and you see the art project and you don't see it in career and technical education. We need to like brighten that up and let people see the cool things that are being done by our plan and also update some of the things that are being done. There's some things that we can't do um >> to me because of the space. >> Sorry to interrupt, but the thing that really struck me with because we I know facilities Scott and Adam and I and I can't remember if all of us toured at one point, but the teched area I mean it comes down to safety honestly. I
140mean to me. >> Well, it's nice when the teachers can see through different spaces and >> and it's a growing area of of need, right? It's if you go back to our um strategic plan is the last two like we did the strategic plan in 2021, career technical education was a huge piece of that. Um if you go back to this one, career and technical education is a huge piece of that as well. Um looking at people who um are going to work in the trades and those types of things >> or business and business, right? Other things. Um, and have some some peaceulture. >> Well, and we always talk about kids having just skills to live life. Y >> well, I don't care where you go out to college or whatever else. I mean,
141um, I've got a couple of kids that through this learned just regular skills that help them with their house, with their, you know, >> so it's, um, it's all it's for jobs, but it's also for living, >> right? Does does that include so the CTE the entire project does that include equipment? >> Yes. >> Okay. So that would include the welders and maybe like milling machines or >> Yep. I believe if you look at that sample question it talks about um like acquisition of furnishing fixtures and equipment. It may not be in there but in the the sample question. >> You have a list of those anywhere? >> I don't off the top of my right here. I don't >> somewhere we do though >> not a list of all of them but we would
142we would work with our our you know consultants and that the people we're working with with through um our sorry our consult our architect right and um when we designed it right making sure we designed the space we've looked at space design but we haven't like gone down to the nitty-gritty >> okay >> until we get to that point. Thanks. >> I believe in there it also would potentially trigger for us the ability to apply for a DWD grant as a match. >> Yep. >> For equipment. >> Yep. Absolutely. It would >> And then the pool before you go. So, anyone who's been in the pool recently, it's I'm sorry. It's not pretty anymore. It's not >> Well, and there's lights that they can't even get to, >> right? Can't change the bulbs. >> Fixing
143I'm sorry. Some areas are just gross. >> I'm in healthcare, so I'm in healthcare. So, I'm a bit of a germaphobe. >> Yeah. So, pool has areas uh we can keep going on list. Uh like for merit center, um right, we have lights. We borrow $100,000 worth of lights from etc. Um that is not limited access. that may at some point will go away. Um, so when you go to our musicals and the sing and swing, you see that we have people who come and donate their time and hang those lights and those types of things. Um, and >> you say we have like for a couple years. >> Yeah, it's a couple more years, but some point that may go away. Um, and then, you know, again looking at in red lights, looking at
144our um, the other areas we looked at were locker rooms, like how small the lockers are. uh looked at um a fitness center and a wrestling room was one of the things that were really looked at as well. Um for art center, we looked at more uh green room space for kids for again safety and for being able to observe kids uh and supervise them correctly. >> Storage. >> Yeah. And then outdoor athletics, we looked at um multiplying. We looked at tennis courts that need some work. Um, we looked at the possibility of creating some practice fields up at the primary school because we always need practice fields and there's land up at the primary school. We don't really utilize a lot, but if we flatten it out, we could, but it would come at
145a cost, but it's cheaper than us going out and buying land. And if you find Loi land, land in Loi, typically it's either flat and wet or it's hilly. Sometimes it's hilly. We have some of that, too. >> You go to our girls softball field. Um, so and then the possibility of bringing baseball back in town. We have RC baseball plays in Dane. They have a nice facility out there, but bringing that back into town so it's on school facility as well. So that was one of the things we kind of looked at um as a whole and all those areas and their or the community viability team the facility finance committee has been looking at that for again three, four, five years. um community viability team dug into it um fresh set of eyes
146for for 6 months and then came back with some recommendations and this is the order of recommendations that they came up with. We did a very similar we had the board do a an activity um where they rated them as well at our May 27th meeting and again was kind of a dot activity that's why the numbers are there but our CTE was by far the most highest priority for the board pool was number two locker rooms three practice fields four baseball was five and PAC was was last and then just that the one thing I want to say about the performing arts center the board did talk a lot about the performing arts center and the needs in there But there's also was a $2 million donation given by the Wats for the performing
147arts center and the feeling was to use that money versus going to referendum um to take that money and make the repairs that are needed because that money is already there versus going out to referendum asking. That is why I would think that it's one of those lower rated areas. >> And I think it it helps to say, you know, oh, locker rooms. The lockers in the locker rooms are about the size of my laptop. Vince Scott, your shoes probably would not fit in those lockers. >> I mean, they're teeny tiny. And then when you add, which we do use the pool for like for every single gym class except for like maybe one or two, right? >> You have to have a swimming unit and then you try to fit your regular gym clothes
148and your tennis shoes in there and then you have to put a towel in there and a wet swimsuit and you're like, "Ooh, >> stinks." >> Yeah. >> It's not as fun as you would imagine. Imagine this was fun. But >> we have you to tell us. >> We appreciate you painting that picture. >> You're the one living out of everybody in this room, you're the one who's living it most. >> Some of us other of us use the pool one, but we don't use the other locker rooms at all. >> And it's not just the the lockers themselves. I mean, there's other issues when we toured that. I mean, there's other issues in those locker rooms that >> Yeah. And again, the board's looking at, you know, fixing up the locker room, like remodeling
149the locker room. It's not like putting in um the Packer locker room or the Bears locker room or whoever locker room you want to look at. It's it's putting in a just fixing blue locker room that >> yeah more usable >> better better used. >> Um the other thing the board looked at was the impact of taxes, right? So, um, the board, we worked with Bayer to come up, how will these different areas impact our school taxes? And the board has this, uh, at their right next to them. It's also, um, they've also seen it before. Um, and what the board what Bayer did was looked at different levels. They looked at $100,000 property. And we know most people, there's not too many $100,000 properties anywhere. It's just really good for math, right? Right. You
150can then multiply up to what your property level is. They have 100,000 250 half a million property and threequarters of a million dollar property and the impact. So you look at a $6 million capital referendum uh at $100,000 it would cost $21 a taxpayer $21 a year. At a half a million property it cost $105 a year. You jump up to a $10 million referendum uh it would be $33 a year per $100,000 of property. So you go up to half a million, be $165 a year. Again, and this is over the next 20 years. >> Um if you went up to 14 million, uh be $45 per 100,000 or if you're a half a million, $225 >> dollars per year. >> And didn't the CBT team when they presented come back, wasn't it like
15130ome 30 33 or 35 million? And that wasn't even everything. >> Yeah. Start 54. >> What it look like? 54 like was the total. So I mean >> narrowed down to 33 actually. >> They narrowed it down and again wasn't everything. >> 33. And they knew that even 33 would probably be a lot. So they >> right >> then they that's why they prioritized things >> in the order they did um and wanted to survey staff because they didn't want to be the ones who made the decision. they wanted to prioritize it and then give it to the community in the form of that survey to help provide that information back. >> Right? >> So again the board has taken a lot of time looking at we had this was also shared when um when
152we did the survey survey asked higher tax numbers and then had the tax impact from beard as well. So this was done by independent third party um beard financial who does this kind of work for district So the board reviewed six options um really and they looked at different variations of these options. So you can have these conversations again today, but they've looked at all these different options amongst variations and um so option one number one was don't do anything, right? Um kind of like at your house, you can kind of wait and see. Um, if we wait till the primary school debt falls off in 2033, which will be after the next uh operating referendum, the operation referendum passes, you can use some fund balance to fix but not replace tennis courts and slowly
153try to make some renovations with the pool. And then again, we talked about using the W pad money to upgrade portions of the performing arts center because that's what it was donated for. You could look at the CTE and pool option, right? You can break these options smaller, but career and technical education and pool option, um, which will be a $6.6 million referendum, CT pool locker room option, um, which again just adds locker rooms onto the bottom of that, um, which moves that from a 6.6 to an 8.1 million referendum. >> And for for clarification, it's the FIAD lockers and the pool lockers, not the student lockers that are out in the common area, >> right? locker rooms. >> The locker rooms and >> yeah, not just the lockers, but those locker rooms. >> Thank
154you. >> Um, CTE, pool, locker rooms, practice fields. Um, so again, the first three we just got done talking about and then act adding to like practice fields of primary school, not game fields, but just flattening out some of the land up there that we already have so kids can play soccer or football or have practices up there. um or other events as well, but it's not like game fields is adding. It's just adding some flat spaces um and land we already own >> like at the top of the hill behind the middle school. >> Yep. >> Um and then it just it's kind of added on. So then it's adding a baseball diamond to that which adds that moves it up to a $13.2 million referendum. And then we also talked at one point
155about like offsetting some of the PAC money, like having some PAC money from a referendum, using some of that money and then setting some of that WOPA money aside to pay for like seats and carpeting five to seven years from now because the auditorium is going to need that. um and not spending all that $2 million there like getting some like having some leftovers so we can continue to deal with things in the auditorium when we so that was a discussion we had as well ultimately as we discussed this was the last kind of area we landed on a little bit um but I know there's going to be more discussion about that but that's kind of where the board as they talked and went through um and that's why I had a earlier note
156to about the PAC update. Just I want to make sure people who are aware are watching this that see that that's why the PAC was rated lower by the board. >> So discussion and you have all those right in the sheet of paper in front of you as well. >> So I have to use >> let's take a five minute recess. >> Okay. >> Take five minutes. >> Five minute recess. >> Sure. >> Well, I'm going to pee out too if you talk about it and There's only two. >> Hurry up. Hey, again. >> Yeah. >> So, when we had our meetings, um I would think the main discussion I would think you would agree with me would be the 9.1 and the 13.2. And I think we're all in agreement, but I kind of
157basically said at the end of the meeting, I don't want to vote about this. I want to sit on it for the weekend because we did this last Monday, so we had a week. >> And I don't know about you guys, I've been stinking about it non-stop because obviously our survey results said that 50% would support 15. Obviously, that's only of who answered the surveys. >> That can change with a whole community voting. But I also feel that that's a pretty good baseline considering where we started at 54 million and got them and then kind of got down to 33. So we're already eliminating a lot. And I looked at these guiding principles a lot. So obviously and as we know we always want to give as many opportunities to all the kids as possible.
158I'm going to all these graduation parties and I'm seeing all the pictures that are up in those garages and a lot of those pictures are activity pictures. >> Always >> there's some classroom pictures. >> They're always activity pictures, >> but it's the activity pictures and that's where these kids are making the connections. That's where they're learning so many life skills. And I just started thinking and I'm like, "Okay, we have a great facility in Bane. It's awesome. But I'm also thinking of the whole community. We have heard from numerous community members that our sports teams need more practice fields. So obviously the 9.1 has practice fields at the primary school. We would gain two, I believe. Correct. >> Which is awesome. >> But I'm also >> Are they baseball or te-ball or no? >> No.
159No. soccer football and soccer has been very vocal that they are really limited on space and I coached way back in the day >> and I know that field availability is really hard to get and you had to like race down back in the day before the online stuff you had to race down and sign up and it was stressful and we just got back home talent in this community home talent baseball which I think is awesome. I just feel like it might be good to have since considering we have home talent, we need more practice fields, we want to get these kids involved out in the community and I feel like I'm really hoping that our community would support the 13.2. we would that field in DNE would be able to host home talent
160and not have nearly as many conflicts from our youth teams and our high school team which I know high school new talent really doesn't probably affect too much because home talent is more summer um and I just feel like we aren't losing anything. >> It's not like we're replacing something and like oh yeah we we got a new field but we lost our old one. We aren't. We are literally getting a new baseball field and we still have the Dane one and then we'll obviously have these practice fields too. And I'm like that is covering so many kids in our community and I just like I said with home talent coming back and this is not going to get any cheaper. Yeah, I know. I know the price tag is scary. $4 million for a
161baseball field that seems insane. But there's so much more that goes into it. Obviously you us board members have heard all of it. It's not just throwing some dirt and putting some lines out there. There's a lot, >> right? >> And we've heard from some parents, obviously all of us have and my experience, even alumni that come back and say, "You guys don't play in LOI," which isn't a horrible thing. Yes, it's Dane. It's still part of us, but I just I feel like it might be time. And I think it'd be awesome if we did this and we got it approved and our baseball field is in Loi and kids aren't driving to Dane, they're just going across the street or just to the elementary school for JB baseball. I think it'd be cool
162to have one or two games still in Dane and have be like a special night out there, too. So, that's just my thoughts. I I just I kept going back and forth and I thought I just feel like 9.1 I'm not saying 9.1 to 50 million we're saying 9.1 to 13 and we are getting a lot for these kids and I just I think activities and sports and school I know to my kids was so beneficial >> and I just think we need to make sure obviously the operational referendum is huge huge and that's why I was like, "Okay, we need to keep that too because that needs to pass, too." But that's just my thoughts. I want to hear from everybody else, but I have like I have never seen my alarm clock so
163many times at night this week because I just kept waking up and then that would be my first thought all the time. Um, but that's just what I kept going back to. Like I said, I really went back to our guiding principles and I just feel like that baseball diamond would actually hit a lot of these spots. >> Yeah, let me add something to that. So, the I feel we need a yes vote on this capital referendum because we can't put the pool off any longer and we need to remodel those CTE spaces. This survey was filled out in the spring and the economy has gone down since the spring. We're not voting on this than November and we don't know what's going to happen between now and November. And so I just feel it's
164better to go with something much safer at 9.1 than 13. >> I would piggyback off of Adam and say yes, I agree with that. I'm not discounting. I do think baseball needs to come back to Loi. That then with where it would go would eliminate a practice field. Yes, we would gain two, but we lose one. There's a parking issue potentially. Not saying it would be with baseball there because there's not the parking and I don't think that includes the parking. That does not include the parking. Um, I also think there is a safety issue about kids driving out to Dane. I it would be nice to have it back in close to the high school. However, I kind of agree with Adam that, you know, if we if we get close to that 15
165million, which 13 is closer than nine, um, within that margin of error that the survey results gave us, and it gets voted down, we lose CTE, pool, locker room, and practice fields. We lose everything. On the flip side, there are going to be people, I think we've all talked about it, that will not support it no matter if it's a dollar >> of a refer. I mean, >> but that's why we did the survey. The survey said that there are people who won't support it. >> Right. Right. So >> I would argue that we can ask two questions a year and nothing is lost forever if we ask for what everybody on the board wants and it gets voted down. That simply means that the community didn't want to support this, but it doesn't mean
166that we can't reshuffle it and go back and ask another question in the spring. So, I would say I don't think it's lost forever. What's lost forever is if you don't ask about the baseball diamond now, then I believe that is lost forever. and I wasn't on the board when they asked about the the fieldhouse years ago, but part of the reason that we're not asking about wrestling room and gymnasium is because of the astronomical cost increase. So, it's expensive, but it's never going to be less expensive than it is now. More than likely, I don't have a crystal ball to look in the future. I could simply look at what has happened in the past. >> So >> go ahead. I can say I have talked to a few people and had got some
167negative feedback about moving from Dayne um because of the cost and because the facilities that they have there are still going to be better than what we're going to put here for $4 million. But I do agree with you, Scott. If we don't ask, we're not going to know. And we can come back and the CTE is highly supported and the pool is a must. We can come back in a year and ask for those which we our referendum right now still is going for a year. That's my thought process. >> But if we if we ask, it'd be great if it passes. I'm, as you know, usually the Debbie Downer of the group and we'll say what if it doesn't pass like I had said before then you go back in the spring or
168even the fall and ask again I think even if it's for less I think that's >> you have to wait a whole year >> no >> your calendar year >> it's calendar year >> be able to go in April >> we could ask in April >> ask in November and if it fails we can ask in April >> and there's going to be people Like you just asked that and it's going to be a no and now it's going to be a bigger no. That's my concern. >> My concern is >> I just want I want something to pass. >> I know. But I also feel like if people are willing to say yes to 9 million, I feel like they would be willing to say yes to 13. The people that are going to
169say no, I could be wrong. This is just my thought. I feel like they would have said no to nine. Again, that was in the spring and I think it's our yes votes are going down every day. >> That's my opinion. >> So, by the time we get to November, >> I just think that like we don't >> we're going to have like Oh, do you want to go around? >> No, no, you go like I'm concerned about voter fatigue by asking too too many times. And um as I mentioned at the last meeting, like I I similar to Sarah, you know, I filled the form out myself when I did the survey and I was like all in. If it was just me as a parent, I would love to go all in for
170everything. But when I think about the economy, if this had been two years ago or three years ago, I think people maybe there would be more palatable and people financially could make it work. But I just think we have to be conservative about what we're asking for. And I really am concerned I about the I like if we ask for too much people say no, you know, the pool is like completely on its last legs. We have like some really important things that are just not going to get fixed. And so >> we're not picking the numbers out of out of um thin air. A lot of what we based our decisions on for our operations referendum was based off of survey results. And we can go to survey results. And at at $2 million
171more than the highest number we're talking about now, it was margin of error. We're we're still talking about less based on the survey results, based on the data we have >> than what basically the survey said would be supported and would likely succeed. >> Okay. So, I think it's good for each of us to to speak to this. >> I want to speak to it more like Sarah did. I want this for the CVT and the things we need to pass the first time. >> CT. The other thing is again when I mean as far as I know you were at more graduation parties I'm sure but what I got from two emails is that you know the stuff that the complaints about DNE could be fixed pretty darn easily if we knew it was
172an issue and I don't think it's means that you can't ask I mean I think that the next referendum we could be in a position to ask beautifully for a baseball diamond because some of these other things have been taken care of. So I I can't I'm more on the 9.1 just because when you looked at that margin of error um you 50% of the people we surveyed it wasn't we didn't survey a whole they didn't all respond. So the people at 15% it just kept going down and it looked pretty palatable at 10 which 9.1 is right there. Um and you don't get a parking lot like Sarah said. You don't get a a dug I mean you get dugouts. You don't get um a concession stand with bathrooms in it. And you don't
173have you don't have those things which >> but you did see that one of the complaints the dugouts are not completely as great as everyone thinks and Dane I'm not complaining about >> right but I mean it's something that those kind of things maybe could be worked on for less than $4 million email responses where parents talk talked about what can we do to help fund raise let us know they can't fund raise $4 million for a diamond but they may be able to fund raise a significant amount of money for a concession stand for Ball Diamond. >> Could they raise us to fix some stuff >> or roofs on the dugout? >> That we could handle. I'm sorry. >> Or roofs on the dugout. >> We don't that's not the school district's ballpark. >>
174I agree. But >> for for us to invest money in things like that, it's it's we don't own it. So, I would I would also say, and I know we talked about this at our meetings, the CTE, the pool, the locker rooms that is used by how many students and community members versus a baseball diamond for how many students? I'm just against >> it's not just high school students either. You we come to meetings here on off nights and the streets are lined with cars because there's little league over at the baseball diamond. It would it would move. It would use the nicer diamond. >> But the but the high but the high school doesn't have a high school ball diamond in LOI. That has a JV diamond. >> Right. Point is to Sarah >>
175is that a lot of people in the community use a diamond beyond just the kids in high school that are out for the sport. >> I've not been to Dane for a little while. I can't remember. There's not a parking lot, right? It's just off. It's street park. >> No, there's parking on both sides. >> There is street parking. There are some that you can pull into, but a lot of people don't park there because the ball a foul ball can hit their car. So people aren't walking as far potentially park >> and that's why that new diamond we said that the primary school would probably be a parking lot for games but it's not like it would be a parking lot for the field. >> so yeah the field doesn't let me I just
176want to one thing I'd like to say is like what what what's included what's not included when we think of a baseball field. >> Yeah. So, the $4 million, it's a new 300 and my glasses on. Sorry. Uh 360 foot baseball field, amended soil, flat panel under drain and irrigation, um outfield and sideline fencing, um a 40ft net back stop, mason masonary dugouts, uh dirt bull pens, um and then a concrete plaza with bleachers on, so concrete pad for bleachers, and then a scoreboard. That's what's included. So as we talk about like concessions, >> lights and those type of things or bathrooms, right? >> Long walk our track doesn't have lights or concessions either. >> No, fortunately. >> But that's as Scott talked about. That's something that you put fund raise for some of those
177things. You can't probably not going to be able to fund raise for diamond. >> No. >> Yeah. >> Some of those amenities you might be able to. I do want to mention all this talk about um everything else and I know you put it up there but I want to make it clear that the PAC >> the reason we are not discussing that is we were figuring on using the WAT money for that. That was a gracious donation. >> So I don't want PAC to think that we were forgetting them in any mean. I know you put it up there but I just want to make that clear because that was huge for us too but then we figured let's use that money where Wat family asked to be used. So, >> so would I
178be correct in trying to calculate this? So, the difference between the 9.1 and the 14.1 million is would be about $75 a year on a half million property. Are we talking about 14.1? You want the 13.2? Oh, I looking at what's on here. So, the 13.2. So, it's even less than that. Yeah. What's the difference on a $500,000 property? The difference would be $30. Well, about because we have 10 million on here and 12 million on our >> Yeah, I was looking at about 40. >> To be fancy and actually >> I think the easiest way to do it is to look at the $10 million number and then look at the $14 million number. It's roughly $4 million difference. >> That's roughly what the difference >> six7 8 per million per 100,000. So eight
179Yeah, that makes sense. That makes Yeah, that makes sense. Actually what I was doing to >> 40 $20 difference $12 >> it go the milling goes up. >> It's $12 every $2 million >> difference not total cost difference. >> Yeah. At the $100,000 rate, >> right? >> Which is a dollar >> per hundred,000 which is a dollar a month. So if you're at >> 13 million, it probably your fill rate would be instead of.39, it would probably 42, >> right? So it' be 42 per 100,000 13 million rough math. >> I mean, it's not much, but I think it's again the public's perception. If you are selling something for, hey, you could get that cup of coffee for $5.99 or you could pay $7.99. like it just it's $2, but it sounds it's like what
180do you think is the value of something? >> Even though I agree that that it's >> and I know the people that have been pro bring it back to Loi and there's reasons for there's a lot of things that we could fix to make Dane better that doesn't have to cost a lot and I know people I do know people who also are very proud that that is in Dane and that baseball comes to Dane. Well, that's what I'm saying though. they'd have home talent and I would be I would love that if our you know team still would use that one. I think it'd be kind of neat to have it like be different. Oh, we're going to play at Dane, you know, for the two or three. >> The thing that we can't
181fix in DNE is we can't fix the commute that we ask our students to take to go to the take anyway they want to drive, >> right? But not >> we can't we can't what what what can't change in real estate? Location, location, location. We can't change the location. We can do all the improvements that have been talked about to a diamond that we don't own, but we can't change where it's at. We can't change where the high school kids have to go to practice, which was some of the things that were voiced by some of the parents that sent us emails. >> What about people that live in like Harmony Grove that go home after school and drive back to Loi for practice? I mean, there's there's still people are >> they have to
182drive there from day. >> Yeah. I mean, I'm just saying that people are like driving >> if you live in it's right there. >> That's >> No, I know. I was saying if you live in >> No, I get it. And I think >> or town of Doro or town of Arlington, >> right? I mean, any >> Vienna, Roxberry? I mean, >> we pulled from so many areas. >> Is there a way that we can do a survey or get input specifically on this? >> Not that >> specifically on the baseball field >> from from our community. >> Yeah. >> Not as quickly as >> not between not between now and us having to make this decision. >> I have a question that may or may not be very impractical because I >> am only
183very not knowledgeable about any of this. >> But >> you're a student so >> yeah. I'm not This doesn't apply to me though. But if you did the 9.1 referendum and you're talking about going back in April and asking more questions, could the baseball then be a sec another question? >> I see what you're saying. >> Instead of frontloading it all, >> can you do the more as we say reliable option first? >> Get that stuff that you want to be done first. >> And then you can ask them. And that's the way to do your survey is like, "Hey, here you go. Do you want to do it?" Because it's a separate question. It doesn't have to be tied in with all of those other ones. It's do you want it or do you
184not? >> Yes, the board can the board can >> do something like that if they chose to do something like that. >> Answer. Yeah. >> Good. >> Vince, is it >> just hypothetical? >> Thank you, Emily. >> Is it two questions a year? So we could ask two in the spring or one in the spring, one in the fall next year. Correct. That's what it is. Just two per calendar year. >> So the other party you just have to um be concerned about is voter fatigue, right? Right. you know, walking in asking for, you know, it feels like we had this conversation earlier like talking about >> and maybe not this meeting but another one like >> like when we did the stadium fundraiser and then we turned around did a referendum and then there
185was the track came up, you know, we had to cut some stuff back in the track and there was some talk about doing a fundraiser like we can't keep going back and asking putting your hand out and asking. So by asking them like if you ask two questions in the fall and then not knowing that you're going to go back in the spring um as a taxpayers could one of two ways right taxpayer could say right this is the priority and then they're asking for the additional question the other one would be like just ask me like upfront because it feels like a bait and switch a little bit that you're asking me this little bit and now you're coming back and doing it again and it and it going to referendum is a big
186deal right >> it takes a lot of energy on uh the part of the board, a lot of energy on the part of the district and part of the community as well. Um >> I mean >> I want something that's paliotable and is going to pass. >> I mean the thing about it too is that I feel like if we did 13.2 too. And then we decided and it didn't pass and we decided to go back in April. I'm pretty sure that the most vocal at least has been talk about the baseball field. Obviously, we've heard about everything else, but I mean I think the baseball field is probably where majority from I mean from my experience that's >> the majority of what >> is like that's what's talked about the most. I think the
187other things people have like by us and the community I feel like because when people keep hearing referendum that's what I'm hearing is about the baseball field. >> Are you gonna do it or you not? You're gonna do it or you're not. I'm not hearing about baseball. >> You know until I started asking people I never heard a thing about serious not a thing. Oh, I have heard a lot. >> But I'm not hearing anything about CTE and pool and locker rooms because I have a feeling people are like, well, yeah, that's >> I think the baseball field is where people are like, >> you know, that maybe they won't. >> So, what I feel like is if we went and let's say we did the 13.2, it didn't pass, and we came back in
188April and said, "Okay, we we took >> That's where I'm afraid." When you talk about that voter fatigue, you just shot yourself. That's what I'm afraid of is then they'll say no to that one too and >> I don't I I don't see that though. I see that the main problem would be the baseball field would be in my opinion. I that's all I'm saying. It's just my opinion. >> I would I would also say that's the more typical route, right? The typical route is to ask >> and then if it doesn't pass then to go back with something cheaper versus ask something smaller and then come back with another another question the following year. Like that would be highly seen as highly >> not that we go to referendum now but it would be
189in the state pretty highly unusual to do something like that like to pass ask a referendum a capital referendum in the fall and then come back in the following spring and ask a second capital referendum. >> Um >> unless the first one failed and you're shrinking it down. >> Oh yeah, that's what I'm saying. >> Yeah, I know. Oh, okay. Okay. >> Yeah, because I just And obviously, Emily, that was a great point to bring up. You could tell we're all like, >> but I also feel >> like doing a survey. >> See, I feel like that would be more voter fatigue than what I'm suggesting. If we say, "Oh, our capital referendum passed 9.1. Now, let's go back and ask about the baseball field." As opposed to, "Let's ask for it." And if they're
190like, "No, that's too much." Okay, then we're going to go back. And I would hope they would say, "Okay, you know what? They cut it." That's the big word right there. Hope. You hope they do. What if they don't? >> Well, I know I I would be I mean, as a taxpayer on the survey, I put I marked the highest one. I'm okay with with that. But what happens if it doesn't, then we're out any of these projects. >> But also, >> and you've also got a tennis court that needs >> some work. And we have an extra time about this other like it's a guaranteed pass. >> There's there's nothing guaranteed about the lesser amount. >> I mean that's that's coming across. >> I I will I will give you that. >> Sure. How
191about in an effort to just kind of move this along, I'm going to throw something out there and we will do something with it. And whatever we do, we do. I move to the move that the district move forward with a 13.2 2 million capital referendum that includes remodeling the career and technical education spaces at the high school. A remodel of the indoor pool at the high school. A remodel the high school physical education, athletic and pool locker rooms, and creates two new practice fields to be used for soccer, football, or other activities on the primary school as well as a baseball field. >> Did you say 13.3? Scott >> said 13.2. two. >> Thank you. >> I will second that motion by Scott, second by Heather. Any more discussion? >> Yeah, what I was
192going to say a minute ago is I just don't think we're discussing apple and I know it's not apples to apples. I was going to say >> neighboring communities referendums recently, but >> many of them failed and I know that they're all asking for different amounts and there's different things included, but I just like that sort of taking a pulse of they've already taken the pulse for us of what the what people aren't willing to to spend or what they can afford. Maybe not what not not what they want. Maybe it's more what they it's the wants versus needs and what you can afford right now. So, >> Vince, can you speak to that? Were they were those more operations that failed or were those capital >> So there was a couple, right? So Portage
193failed their operational referendum this year. Um but they passed the capital a few years ago. Um and then so they they had a recurring their referendum was uh for the same amount I believe as had been passed but it failed. Um Sock had an operational and a capital they had a much bigger capital referendum like 71 million I think it was. um and they had a smaller operational order from the IRS and they both failed um the operational by I want to say 40 votes 40 or 50 votes. Um Barabou had a capital referendum um that failed um Reedsburg passed their operational referendum. We kind of was an outlier in the state. Like there's pieces where like 61% referendums passed this this past spring, but there's like this little loop right by the um Wisconsin
194River us like those three districts next to each other like all three of them failing >> and going down um was was a little was a little >> um so I think one of the things that we talked about a little bit was like some just being careful of that capital fatigue. Like if you do a capital referendum, it sometimes can impact your your operation referendums in the future. >> Maybe not this operation, but five years from now when the board will have to go back. >> Um how does that impact right because you again your your community has to support it and and our community's been great at supporting things but we've also been trying to be very diligent about that. >> Can I say something? >> Did I speak to that as what
195you're asking? to answer. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> I also wanted to mention that our team, our viability team spent six months on this >> and they did not have the ball field as anything way up. They had the other things necessary. And again, I'm not saying I'm against it forever. I'm against it right now because I think it is a want versus a need. Um because I think there's a lot of things we could do within our budgets to help some of these things that are an issue. It obviously doesn't even if we gave them a bus to go back and forth. We know most kids who drive themselves anyway because that's what they do. >> I sat on the CBT team. I was there for discussions. >> Yeah. And >> and it
196was discussed. >> There were people in favor just like the community. There'll be people in favor and there'll be people that are in favor and there are people not in favor. But they didn't uh based on that slide and what they presented, they did not rank outdoor facilities. >> Yeah, we didn't we didn't go through those three facilities and rank them like we did the other ones. >> Part of what you have to understand is there were people that wanted $54 million worth of work done. So when these prices started trickling in, it it was a little, you know, disheartening for the work that had been done for a lot of months before. >> It was just a real significant dose of reality that hit that group that I was a part of. >> But
197I understand again I understand we're discussing there's a motion out there again just for the idea of keeping things moving along. And I have a very good idea as to how five people are going to vote. I I just the matter of how the other two are going to vote because that's what's going to decide. >> Mhm. >> Well, this is so hard. We really don't know what >> the majority of people are going to do. >> Nobody has imagined mom. >> I just know there are people that none of these other things are going to have any sway. and you say baseball or football and they're like, "Yeah, okay. I can do that." And it might have nothing to do with our students, but it has to do with their personal I love baseball.
198I never miss a Brewer or Cubs game, whatever you are. >> You should miss You should miss a Cubs game whenever you can, >> right? the Packers, the Bears, whatever. There's just some people like that just >> triggers something >> and I know that >> they support it. I don't know. Cheap too. >> So, one of the other things to think about too when you're doing capital referendums at times is to like >> how many people it's going to touch, right? So, when we did the stadium donation, like we went through that process, which is kind of like a referendum, it wasn't, but it was right. We walked through and talked about all the different people it touched, right? And not just it was a football field. No, the the team I think that benefits
199the most from that field is the girls soccer program because the girls soccer program in the spring that field was torn up by the boys and the football and soccer and then in the spring >> and then the football players would always blame the girls. >> Right. >> But also the band, >> you also had the dance cheerleaders out there. You also were able to have all those fiad classes out there. You could play baseball out there. You could like in the in the spring when it's muddy you go like fly balls and softball can be out there like the more people you have involved in a referendum the more people will support it if you can touch things right so it's one of the initial things when we first started talking about this I
200think I had one thing from each of the buckets right at PAC like if you can touch a piece of different things >> and that's kind of where I'm coming from and Teresa that kind of goes with your point people are going to say oh they're supporting CTE their pool locker rooms practice field oh and baseball like we are kind of touching a lot >> that that property is in my backyard. So I see how that current calling it a field is generous. It's literally an area that's mowed and there are some lines painted, but it is used in the fall and in the spring and it's high school kids using it and it's first grade kindergartener football people using it. So, I think that's to kind of to Vince's point about how many different
201people can you can you touch those practice fields and I know that we've been hung up on baseball, but those practice fields would I think touch a lot of >> Well, we have practice fields >> which would be in the 9.1. >> They're in the 9.1. >> I I understand that. And the reason that we were talking about doing the practice field is because we were worried with baseball about losing. >> How would the community around that area feel about having that noise and the announcers and >> maybe one day lights and maybe >> Well, they're already by that. >> Ask Emily. She lives. She lives right there, too. >> I mean, you already hear the football stuff, too. You know, you're in that area. >> You're going to already hear that stuff. We were
202on LA Ray this weekend and we could hear the soccer game. So, but just thought Yeah. >> I live four miles from the football field and I can hear them. >> Yeah. >> And and >> two miles away is it's not going to change the noise level. >> No, the noise level is already there. >> That's a different level of noise on the baseball field. >> Yes. >> Is there any more discussion? >> Anyone else have stomach ache? I'm glad I don't. >> Aren't you? >> I think we're going to do a roll call vote just like we did for the first one. I think it just makes sense. >> And I started over there. So, I'm starting over here. I'm making it even. Okay. >> So, I start. >> No. No. Yes. >> Did
203you say no? >> I said yes. >> Oh. My good ear. Okay. I know. I'm waiting on Adam. >> Yeah, I know. >> I last because if I'm deciding then I have to >> Yes. >> No. >> Yes. >> And I'm lost track. >> 4 to three. >> 43. >> 4 to three. >> Four to three. Motion passes. And I know that we were really aiming for a 70 vote on this. We talked about it numerous times and I want to express the community that we might not be 70 but we are all all in agreeance that this is all for the kids >> and we are just trying our best to touch as many kids lives and activities. >> The way this board works is it wasn't a seven to zero but it is
204now a seven to zero going forward. way to say it. Yes, you guys, thank you for all of this discussion. >> I hope the community sees all this and >> I hope everybody walks away feeling okay, right? >> This is what we're doing. >> Thank you guys for all the time and energy you put into this. I know this a they are not easy decisions and you've spent a lot of time like you had obviously as I point out before this has been years in the making and then taking time to go back through these documents and then still it's it becomes an agonizing decision because it's never >> straightforward right you're trying to do what's in the best interest of kids you want to provide everything you can but you're also trying to balance
205the needs of taxpayers and and the community as well so I appreciate the amount of time and energy and diligence you put into this because it's not easy. >> Well, and we appreciate like Vince, you've done a lot of researching and setting up stuff. Jason, >> we've been asking question after question. >> I know you guys have worked on stuff too like everybody, like I said, this is a community referendum. This is not just a few people. So, >> so again, just like the other one, we will bring a formal um motion to the July meeting um like this for the ballot like >> all that based on the decision that was made tonight >> and then we will vote on that meeting. >> Okay. >> Language. >> Okay. Oh, we have to move on,
206do we? >> Yeah, we have other agenda items. >> Oh, yeah. >> Yeah, there's that. Okay. So, the draft budget. >> Yeah. So, it is that time of year again where we have to uh put together a draft budget. We have to have it done by July 1st. Um so really what happens is the board approves a a proposed budget in June. Um which is kind of if you think about it it's kind of silly because we don't know a lot of the stuff that has to go into the budget, right? It's so we adopt a final budget around November of this current year. Um the current budget data suggests that um we will project a slight deficit which was anticipated when we passed last referendum. The district just is still going to be waiting
207for very important information. We get our student count on the third Friday in September. State aid finalization October 15th. Property value certification on October 1st. Um and then we will bring that all back to the community to the board and then and then then to the community um at the annual meeting in October. uh facility and finance committee reviewed the budget at their June 2nd meeting and unanimously moved it to the full board with a recommendation of approval. >> I just this is actually our numbers, right? This isn't just like a SAM because it says you know the whole >> recommended format. So wanted to make sure >> I'm just curious Jason and >> it's the budget. I it's so confusing but like some of these totals are going up and some of them are
208going down. Sure. >> So, can you just tell me kind of why? I mean, you don't have to get too detailed, but >> So, um, you're looking at three fiscal years in the same document. So, the the far left column with numbers is going to be actuals from 2425. So, those are audited figures. Okay. >> That middle column is where we can kind of project we might land this year. Those are completely unodituded and we're still obviously spending here in June. Okay. >> And then that far right hand column is what I'm projecting budget numbers to go. So on the the upper part of that document would be your revenues. So if you see um some increases, it might be um changes in how the state aid levels are coming in versus property taxes. So
209some of those will fluctuate that. So different sources of those revenues. >> Okay. >> Um on the expenditures we kind of went over before there's some staffing reductions through attrition that are coming. So some of those will change. >> Um but then also there's there's some CPI increases in some of our contracts and such which will change those figures as well. >> Okay. Because yeah, like the federal that's those numbers are >> that's the significant change that is because we're expecting to receive solar uh tax credit. So 30% of our project cost. So that's the revenue coming in and then we'll be paying down principal with that what we're expecting. >> Okay. Awesome. >> So it'll come in and go out. >> Yeah. Okay. >> The one thing this is a good point. We're as
210business manager. They're always working through three budgets. >> We're finalizing this one just got finalizing the audit. This one's working right now. now and then you have a proposed budget. So it's it's always working through that process. >> Special kind of person. Yes. Business manager. >> I move to approve the 2026 2027 draft budget as presented. >> I'll second. >> Motion by Scott, second by Sarah Ramish. Any more discussion? >> Thank you for that. I appreciate it. All in favor? >> I. Anyone oppose? Motion passes 70. >> Okay. >> Uh policy review. >> Yes. policy committee met on Tuesday, May 26th and reviewed and unanimously moved the full board recommendation approval nine policy revisions recommended to us by >> kind of seem like the same things in >> very similar all because of state law
211change. >> Yeah, act administration versus staff versus that's why you have the >> not all wrapped into one. I like when I go to committee meetings so that I still I guess it's good for everyone to hear too. Um, >> so overall for all of these policy things, it's a reoccurring theme and being in SAB's club, it's a reoccurring theme. So maintaining a record of student communications, >> yep, >> it's next to impossible because of the way it's different there and it's different there and it's different there. So as part of this change of policy, can we put together some sort of group that looks at Minga or something else and then every single group and sports uses that one app? >> Well, and that is smiling broadly. >> I was going to say that
212was in the handbook, right? The coach's handbook where they're >> we are working on bringing in parent square >> whatever it is, whatever the app is. >> So Tyler's meeting with our administrative team to talk really kind of go through that. We are going to bring in parent square. Okay. >> Roll it out this fall for that very reason. So when there's student there when there's communication between a staff member and student, it's going to be through parent square. So there's an accurate record. >> All athletics will go through parent square. So there will be a record. That's going to be great. >> All of those things. It It's great, but it's also a little overwhelming. If you get kids in several different activities, you're going to get all these parent square notifications. So part
213of us is going to have to work through that. But there is then a pullable record if there's an issue going on. Yes. that we can pull versus, >> you know, um if someone's texting back and forth, right? Then there's not a record of that. And and this is all coming out of the new Act 89 grooming >> laws and concerns. And there's some training that'll have to happen with our faculty and staff again with grooming this fall. Um that's required. So, um yes, that is something that we're working on. We're going to be rolling out. It'll be part of our actually put in our scorecard and something we'll roll out for next fall. >> And this is Oh, for next school year already. >> Next school year. Yes. >> Nice. Well, thank you, Tyler,
214for doing that. >> Adam, >> great idea. Even though it wasn't your idea. >> No, I've been thinking about it forever. >> I can delete about 15 apps off my phone now. >> I know it does. Or all the emails and then Yeah, whatever. >> Text messages. >> But thank you, uh, policy committee for going through all that. >> Yeah. So, I'll move to approve the updates to the nine policies as presented. >> I'll second. >> Motion by Terry, second by Scott. Any more discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Anyone opposed? Motion passes 70. >> There we don't have any gifts or donations this time, which is surprising. We always do. So, thank you community or LOI community. Um, all right. Our committee reports and meetings. C supply >> two two meetings to report
215on. A >> so the first one was the annual meeting where you had to defend the LOI seed on the seats of five. >> Nice to come in with >> We've been Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Uh we've been on there a long time. So any new school district that wants to get in on Ca 5 would kick us out. Kick out point at first and then kick out one >> the oldest one. >> Really? >> But nobody nobody else seems to want to do it. So >> Oh. Huh. So, we're in for another three years. >> I didn't know that worked. >> Um, and then we had a great report on the youth apprenticeships and instead of just talking to people about youth apprenticeships, they actually brought in a student >> who talked about youth
216apprenticeships >> who was a ringer, of course. I mean, he was like an Emily, but >> he was phenomenal and he >> he sold that program so well. And he came his first starting was like I was super scared. I don't know what I was doing. And then I got in this program and now I'm a business professional. He's not, but and I'm going to college and I'm it was just it was amazing. >> And we got a loadian in here. >> Yeah, for sure. >> Awesome. I mean, there was several used apprenticeships this year, but >> and then there's also an annual meeting at this meeting. And so we go over all of CISA's stuff, CISA 5 stuff that they've done through the whole year. So there's an annual report and where they're at
217and he talks about all the wonderful things he does like the calendar for superintendent and amongst all the other stuff that season 5 does >> calendar for superintendent. >> Yeah. So that they don't miss anything. >> Oh, I thought like throughout the year. >> I thought like you know like Vince could be September or something like it's a picture of >> There you go. Now there's an idea I suggest. >> Yeah. >> So that was the first meeting. a poor fundraising idea. >> Madison Fire Department does that, by the way. They put out a calendar every year. >> The second meeting >> um was just more of a regular meeting. Um >> sorry, >> where we talk about national conventions and things like that, but also CISA 5 has satellite schools for special ed and
218things like that. And they're losing one of the school spaces. They buy our old school districts spaces which we get rid of because we don't want them anymore, >> right? >> And they're no good anymore. And then that's the stuff that they run. >> Yeah. >> And so they've been looking for a newer option. They found a building. >> They came in with renovations of $150,000 to renovate it. And it was like, "Wow, that's super cheap, right?" >> And then the state came in and said, "Well, no, you need way more money than that. You need a sprinkler system. You need an elevator. You need all this other stuff. >> Debbie Downers. And so the people selling the building said, "You know what? Why don't we just give you the building?" >> Oh, >> right.
219And and then it'll make it cheaper for you. And we all, this school district and other school districts, it was on two months ago. I think >> we approved that >> the acquisition of the building >> and they've been going back and forth and back and forth with state and other uh city and town and trying to get what they need and what they don't need in this building. And it's about 500,550 right now. So we approved 600,000. I told them to go seven but they didn't want to go to seven to to get this thing done. So >> yeah. So, they're getting a new a newer building which has six classrooms in it. Should have plenty of space. They're going to consolidate some other schools into this one and take care of everything in
220one house. >> And where is this? >> And what's the name of the school again? >> Stevens Point. This going to be a consolidation of other schools. So, it probably Yeah. So, >> so that was the second meeting. >> Awesome. Well, >> thank you. You're welcome. Very interesting. >> Um, our co-curricular items report Sir, is that you? >> No, that's me. >> Sorry, I always forget. When we switch it off, I always forget. >> Baseball baseball team finished the regular season with an overall record of 16-9 and a conference record of seven and three. The team played second in the Capital Conference and earned another three seed in the WIAA playoffs. They opened tourney play with a 6-0 win over at home. Season came to an end in the regional championship game falling one zero
221to Edgewood. softball, which we've heard about tonight. Lotus softball team finished the season with a 16-7 record and a conference record of four and six. Team earned a number two seed in the WIA playoffs. They opened tourney to play with an A4 win over number seven River Valley and defeated number three Monosella Naris 3 to2 in extra innings to clinch a regional championship. They took on rival Poet in the first round of sectionals, winning five to2 thanks to a seventh inning three-run home run by Mara Lane. The team punched their ticket to state in a thrilling extra innings win over number one Adams Friendship by a score of eight to7. The Blue Devils earned the number three seed at the state tournament and will take on number two new Holstein this Friday at 2 p.m.
222in Madison. Girls soccer. The Loy girls soccer team finished the season with an overall record of nine and seven and a conference record of 5-2. They earned a number two seed in the WIA playoffs. They opened tourney play with a 10-0 win over number seven Assumption. They clinched a regional championship with a thrilling win over number three River Valley this past weekend. Both regulation and overtime ended in a 1-1 tie, sending the game to penalty kicks with Loi advancing. They will head to Aquinus on Thursday night for the first round of sectionals. Lacrosse. So lacrosse co-op finished a season with an overall record of 78, a conference record of four and six, earning a number 14 seed in the WIA tournament. Team opened postseason play with a 16-10 win over number 19 lacrosse central. Your
223season came to an end with a 19 five loss to number three Edgewood Mona Grove. Track and field track team advanced four athletes to the WIA state track and field championship in lacrosse. Advancing were Bennett Nyquist, Riley Wilcox, Maddie Skellinger, Aubrey Sherman. Aubrey placed 10th in the 3200 and Bennett earned two trips to the podium placing third in the 300 meter hurdles and fifth in the 100 meter 110 meter hurdles. Golf. The little golf team finished the regular season placing third in the Capitol Conference Championship. Season came to an end in the nuclair sectional with Bodai coming up just short of a state appearance placing third behind Cambridge and Edgewood. >> Just so you know, we had the hardest sectional. If they would have been in any other sectional, we would be at state. But
224that's all I'm saying. >> Thank you for that. Uh OSC. >> Oh, okay. So, um, OSC update, the meeting was May 20th. Project night was a success. Reader theater was a highlight of all the presentations. Um, some were in the large gym, some in the garden, and some in the library. Plant dig and fundraiser was a success. Fifth grade students loved it. We are ready to welcome second graders for a visit. They already did that. Also, um, back into a more normal routine after Forward Fine Arts and Project Night. um excited about that and are getting ready for the end of the school year which there we are. We will be having um OS fifth grade graduation that was already ha happened. Mr. Schuman shared information about a gallery walk at the last board meeting.
225Attendance rate for the school 96%. That's really good. Um thank you staff for their work with fine arts night stride with pride three tree planting and project night. And uh we do a lot to help our fifth graders and our incoming third graders with transition. OSA fundraising, lemonade stand, signups for the fair, possible September 19th um train and farm event in the fall, finishing the books on the OC interventionist and OSC field study coordinator positions and working on seeing if they will do this again next year. Next board meeting June 16th at Mary Kle client's house. It's the retreat, summer retreat. >> Awesome. Thank you. Uh board committee reports personnel has not met since the last board meeting. Uh curriculum. >> Okay, that is me. I will try to keep it brief. Um we met
226on May 26th and the first um item was that we heard from Jen Morgan. Uh she gave us a report on the ESL program. Uh we reviewed a five-year trend data report regarding our district's English language learner population. Um, all identified ELLL students take the annual access assessment during a window in December and January. Enrollment counts fluctuate because the population can be transient and earlier grade levels uh, such as early childhood and 4K are not officially registered in these numbers until testing begins. Miss Morgan detailed that her role will be shifting next year to encompass some Spanish teaching responsibilities uh such as teaching blocks three and four at the high school while also continuing her ELLL support. We then had an update from the uh some folks from the from the OSC team uh who
227came to highlight their standardized project process workflow. The program has compiled a comprehensive project booklet. this year uh marked the final year under the um official me memorandum of understanding with the Ice Age Trail. Although from my understanding, you know, the relationship is not going to be over. They you know, it's just sort of this is the end of this current um contract. >> Are they they're talking about just renewing that then or >> that I that wasn't >> they said exactly. >> Yeah, I think I think there's there's twofold, right? like there's us as a a campus that's a continuation, right? The the number ending of understanding is just on like how we're going to work with the district as a whole, but also specifically with OSC, but we're going to continue to part
228with them. It just was that was a focus for project night and that was a part of OS of Ice Age Trails commitment also to give us people to commit to coming to our events too. So, it's kind of twofold. So, we have to have a conversation with them. I'm confusing the campus thing with the OS thing. That that's that was my idea. That was my >> uh students recently worked with the local artists to edit, illustrate, and publish their own books, which they brought a sample of and they are fantastic. You guys should check them out. It was just >> um adorable illustrations. The stories were really clever. They were really cool. So, >> and which grade level was this? >> Uh it was wasn't it all? All Yeah. All all levels. Yeah. Uh
229project night which was just mentioned featured an experimental reader theater structure forming a perform forming a performance based um on student research. OSC is excited about the use of magnetic literacy for the upcoming school year for the 2526 pilot. We were going to discuss um advanced learner updates but this had been tabled because our district had not yet received the state assessment data from DPI for reviewing advanced level results. So we'll discuss that at our next meeting. Um the next item was the high school dance dance dance team which unfortunately um is going to be discontinued. Um the administration had outlined a steady decline um in participation numbers which is linked to the document here if anybody wants to take a look. Um which is unfortunate but um youth programs like the little devil dancers
230will be continuing under coordinated community and school guidance. Um there was a official uh recommendation and a motion um to discontinue the high school dance team based on these enrollment numbers which have been dropping. Then we had an annual textbook board approval uh which must be done um on an annual basis. Um there's a list of textbook adoptions and student workbook updates which were uh reviewed by the district curriculum council. Then uh there was a quick discussion about well it wasn't quick but we discussed it quickly earlier the summer curriculum projects um all these fantastic projects that staff members have submitted to work on over the summer when many people think teachers are just sitting around relaxing by the pool. They are actually working at the summer and innovating and doing lots of cool projects.
231Uh future agenda items were the advance we we will be discussing the advanced learner update board adopted standards assessment schedule for the next um academic year and spring district local assessment data. Our next meeting is June 30th at 4:30. >> Wow. Awesome. Thank you. You're welcome. Uh facility and finance. >> Two things were on the agenda. One was the budget for next year which we already just covered and the other was credit card fees for athletic tickets. And so the capital conference is you is going to go to a credit card model for taking tickets. The cost is going to go up for the entire conference. And so there's a fee associated with that, a credit card fee. And we're going to roll that into that cost increase so they won't see that or people
232won't see that >> because we could have just raised the prices and included the and charge the fee. But we're just going to >> we're already we already absorb it. Okay. Yeah, those are the two things. >> Awesome. Well, thank you. >> Was it the negligible fee for per transaction? >> 90 cents. >> Like 90 three or 90 cents >> plus like 5% or 10% of >> a dollar more. It's crazy. It's like a dollar ticket. >> Well, thank you guys. Um policy >> we went through approved >> what we had. >> Thank you guys for your committee work. I know it's a lot of discussion. So, and our future meetings, our next regular school being school board meeting is Monday, July 13th at 5:30. Our curriculum committee meeting will be Tuesday, June 30th at
2334:30. Policy will also be Tuesday, June 30th at 6 o'clock. Personnel is Tuesday, August 4th at 4:30 and facility and finance is on Tuesday, August 4th at 6 o'clock. >> I don't think policy will be made. >> No. Okay. So, forget what I said about policy. We're good. >> Um, and I do not believe we have to go back into close session. >> I'll make a motion to adjurnn. I have a second. >> Uh, motion by Sarah Winger, second by Adam. All in favor? I. Any opposed? >> Passes 70. Thank you guys.