BOE Meeting 05/11/2026

001Dylan Bell, Brooke Pushigan, >> way off. Sorry about that. Um, so for Corey, um, all three of these people uh, volunteered and helped make the, uh, school flowy uh, grow initiative happen. Corey volunteered countless hours to attend our school forest committee meetings since its inception, giving crucial input as a parent, community member, and forestry specialist. She was especially instrumental in working to coordinate the timber harvest in 2025 in planting logistics and planting consideration for Loi grows together. This past week, Cory or couple weeks ago, Cory was at the forest every day, all day organizing trees for planting and generally ensuring that the proc process went well. She and the rest of the DNR team made this entire event possible. So, thank you, COREY. Dylan has been an invaluable resource in the health of our school

002forest by marking trees for selective cutting and coordinating the timber harvest 2025. Last week, a couple weeks ago, he worked every day, all day as a load grows together, organizing equipment, trimming tree roots, and showing off his awesome fire truck. Dylan's work was critical to a smooth and successful week. So, thank you, DYLAN. AND Brooke is a worker. You can tell us by her work ethic, stamina, and quiet fortitude that she's a dependable teammate who gets things done. She has also spoken to our OSC students about her career. She too worked tirelessly to prep trees and organize logistics of planting for long days at the school forest a couple weeks ago. Most importantly, she suffered many small children trying to hug her as a giant bear suit while it was 80 degrees outside. She was

003an allstar. All three of you come forward to me. Tonight, you're so shy. >> And uh here's the pay for the week. 100 grand. Um Cory, stay up here. You're not going to be there. and enjoy the books as well. She's not here. Anything you guys want to say about the week and everything? >> An amazing opportunity. A lot of work put in by a lot of people. Uh glad the weather worked out. I don't know how you ordered up that weather, but uh great job. >> Glad we didn't do it the week before. But uh not only the reach that it did with the kids, all the school students, but uh beyond that, the videos that were taken, uh the additional programming that's been developed out of the uh planting, the visit from the

004governor, from uh the senator, uh just an incredible event. >> It was great. Um, from a personal level, having gone through the school district, it was fantastic to be able to see our kids out at that site. Um, I wish we had had that opportunity as children growing up here as well. Um, fantastic that my kids got to be out there, too, and kind of create that connection to space. Um, and kind of come back and have an investment in that, you know, as it grows. And um I hope that as we kind of continue um with that forest and the management that the kids get to get out there, they get to learn about forestry and other environmental resource educational opportunities, but also there's other opportunities too with our education to be able to

005use that space. So, um, from a professional level, same as Dylan, it was fantastic, um, in our, as a forester or in our forestry division to be able to see that happening, um, and supporting hopefully other school districts and doing the same thing. So, really great effort. >> Uh, so typically what we do is we take our honores and have them take a picture with the board in front of the Lai Pride banner. So, we'd ask you to do that and ask the board to get up and take a picture quick. that way. Teresa, you got >> here you go. Get in here. >> Actually, right there. >> Can you see everybody? >> Thank you guys so much. >> Thank you. Very nice. And then we have another taking positive steps of service award. Um

006this goes out to the school forest committee members. So our internal team uh Leo Olsen, Connor Anderson, Paulaton, Chris McNeel, Cody Andress, and Val Bilki. Um the school district of LOI administrative team wanted to recognize them. Out of our heartfelt gratitude for the exceptional work you demonstrated in bringing the LOI grows together tree planting event to life at our school forest. We are presenting you with the taking positive steps of service award on behalf of our district and community. Your vision, time, energy, and dedication were instrumental in making this event a tremendous success. Here are a few examples of your actions that we want to highlight and recognize. Logistics and communication. Your attention to detail and clear communication ensured that every aspect ran smoothly. setting up for success. In order to engage meaningfully in this

007experience, you created an environment where everyone understood what was expected, knew how they could contribute, and felt valued. You somehow even got the weather to cooperate. Community engagement and media relations. Your efforts helped amplify the impact of this event. It told our story and strengthened our school's connection to the broader community. And then a lasting legacy. Our students, staff, and community members will cherish this experience and their involvement for years to come. The trees planted and the memories made will serve as lasting testament to what we can accomplish when we work together. The positive impact on our school forest will be felt for generations. Thank you for being true guardians of Lodai Pride. It is with sincere appreciation that we present you with this award. 100 grand. Congratulations, sir. Is your 100 grand? Congratulations. Thanks.

008>> Uh, words of wisdom. Um, >> yeah, I've just been at a loss of words since that week happened. It was pretty amazing. Um, just like couldn't have envisioned everything running that smoothly and um, being that great. And it just really I've thought a lot about like the word community in the past few weeks and like what we can accomplish when we work together. um like you said just we can really do amazing things and it really was just a total like team effort like there's so many people that like helped kind of make this happen so it was just great to be a part of >> I'm not one with a loss of words as you know um I've been thinking about this so this is my 28th year here um I've been part

009of some really cool initiatives but this by far is is one of the best uh when you see everything come together and like Leo and everybody said, it's the group, everybody just went 100% into it. Um, going out and seeing the kids and the families um utilizing it now, talking about where their trees are and things like that, it's it's it's amazing. Absolutely amazing. Um, it is it was a team effort. However, if it wasn't for this guy right here >> that really got the ball rolling um to get that school forest back and open, like I cannot I cannot say enough about him. Uh superstar. Um everything he's done, it's vision and it's coming together and it's it's going to be just a a legacy in our district. And so, uh thank you for

010all of your support, but thank this guy right here. I I stumbled into the right place at the right time. >> I just read your photo. >> Time to stumble into a picture. No one ever gets drunk. >> I'm taking two cameras. One more. >> Thank you everybody. Don't want to. >> Don't trip. Don't trip. >> Scared. >> So, we have two um presentations today. Uh the first one is school perceptions. In June of 2026, the board approved the district working with school perceptions to develop a survey regarding potential referendum in November of 26. The survey took into account the operational needs of the district as well as the work that was done by the community viability team to look at facilities and green space in the district. The board reviewed the survey and approved

011it at their March meeting. Survey was mailed out to the community the week of April 6th and uh was open for three weeks. Their survey was also emailed out to staff and families in the district tonight. Rob Demuse from school perceptions will be joining us virtually to review the results of the survey. Uh the board will then use these results to help drive their decision-m in the coming months when it comes to a potential referendum in the fall of 26. So I believe Rob's joining joining us right now. Hello Rob. Can you hear us? >> I can hear you. I can I can't see him, but I can hear that or not. >> Also and I were in the band together. I don't know if he's still in the room, but we >> Oh, he

012just walked out. >> That's very cool. All right. Uh, anything else before I get going? >> No, I think the the floor is yours, Rob. >> All right. Um, just a favor. I think I'm getting a little bit of an echo. I can hear myself. So, do you want to mute on your end unless there's a question? >> Um, so let's get rolling here. Your report for May 11th. Um, I'm going to introduce myself in just a second via my back and knees in the badge of Mayo. Um we'll talk a little bit about uh who we are, the work we've done on that before. Um but blue slides to me really are going to be your least interesting only because it's reproductions of your survey itself. So um screenshots or reproductions basically of everything

013that was in there. We also wanted to put in your report so that this would be a one-stop shop for you. So if you mailed in your survey and it's long been gone and processed, at least you have this report to look at um to remind yourself exactly what was in your survey, how things were worded, etc. We'll talk about your demographics, who took your survey, where did they live, how old they were on the yellow slides. We'll open up to those in just a moment. Uh we'll spend a lot of time tonight on green, that's your results and analysis, and then I'll certainly leave time um along the way for wrap up and questions. Um so just as a reminder of who we are, my name is Ron Dies. I'm the vice president of

014research at School of Perceptions. Um I guess this is our 25th year in this 24 25th year. Um but in that time regardless of the years our mission has never once was changed. We want to help you as educational leaders from Bodi do three things which is to either organize and use data to make strategic decisions. Um in these uh years we've conducted over three million staff student and community surveys all in the name of school improvement and exciting milestone for us. Um we just crossed 1400 school districts nationwide that we've helped through the strategic planning and referendum planning process which is about 10% of the nation. Um, so we're pretty proud of of just reaching that 9% mark across the country. Um, specific for you, as Ben said, your survey closed up on April

01522nd and you outdid yourself relative to last time. So you had 973 responses when we worked with you in 2021 and you broke the thousand mark here. You were at 1,029 respondents. Um, for an above average response rate, you actually have more data than what you need. um way beyond statistical significance, but typically we we picture about, you know, make the upper teens for survey response rate um in order to get you good accurate predictive data. And you get about a quarter of your community that took your survey, so more than last time and above average, which is great. And then your margin of error, which actually will come up later, you're at plus or minus 3%. It's an unfortunately named statistic because you really can't do anything about it. It's really just a function

016of how many people live in LONI and how many people you have to survey. So, we're working with a suburban Minneapolis district right now that has about 77,000ish households and their margin of error is under 1%. So, nothing you can do about that other than change the population of where you live, which is a marginal out of your control. Um, we also want to look at your age breakdown here by group. Um and the good thing here is the kind of hair I would expect to see. Um one in five of your survey respondents are 65 plus. And when I look at the school district of LOI's boundaries, not just LOI itself, but all the municipalities that feed into the district, you're looking at about 23ish% of the community that is 65 plus. So very

017close there in terms of what I would expect, which is great because 65 plus are the most likely to be on a fixed income and least likely to have kids in school or be employed by you. And it's pretty unlikely you have their email addresses at the ready. So you certainly got the data you needed to from your 65 plus, which is great because they will be there on election day. They will let you know what they think as a function of being on a fixed income. So that's great. And then you were a little over represented in 35 to 54. I'm not surprised by that because that's prime parenting and working age for your staff. We also asked is your primary residence in the school district of Loi. A little over nine and 10

018of you responded said yes. But just as a reminder um because it'd be a very valid question if somebody said well why why would you send a LOI survey to people who don't live in or around Loni? Um and the answer to that really comes with a couple of buckets. Um you obviously live in a very commutable area. Um, so if I live in WA but I work in LOI, I'm still going to get the survey because I'm employed by you. So that's one group that might seem to know if I open enroll into the district as a parent. By definition, I don't live there. Um, but we want to know what parents feel. Um, so they get the address or if I have a parcel of land or PO box, if I don't live

019in the school district, I still get the survey. But the reason we ask these questions is we have to weed all of those folks out from anything that tries to predict something that would happen on election day simply because they can't vote there. Um we do want to u inclusively hear from them because you might have a staff member that's been employed by by you know 35 years as an alumni in LOI has half the communities here but if they don't live there we have to weed those folks out because they can't control an election within your district boundaries. We'll focus on the 92% that said yes. Um, you do have representation from all of your municipalities here. Um, I did double check this with this and it sounds like this is kind of what

020you'd expect based on your population centers and paying taxes. Uh, but you do have survey respondents from all municipalities that in some way, shape or form um, help financially support the school district and that's weird. I don't know why that's over there. Um, two questions that will get us through three key subs. We're going to look specifically at how staff feel. We're going to look specifically and isolate how parents feel, but the no is arguably the most important group for no other reason than they are by far group based. But these two questions are how we're going to get to those three subgroups in just a moment. Then we're back to a blue slide. Um, so I'm going to spend little to no time on these only because this is exactly what was in your

021survey itself. Um, whether it was in your print copy at home or I joined your committee meeting a couple of months ago as we were prepping to get this out. um this is really what you saw at that time. So your big blue line over there on the left has the um highest rated school district among all kinds of uh comparables. Um but nevertheless there were some financial challenges that the school district wanted to disclose to the community, you know, so things like your current referendum expiring um increasing costs, the state limits, um staff compensation being below average compared to a study. Um but basically saying there's a budget deficit because of these challenges and we're going to need some feedback from you as a taxpayers. First green slide would you support the school district

022of LOI maintain the current level of operational funding? A majority of all three key subgroups said yes. 93% of your staff were supportive of maintaining the current level of operational funding. Four or five parents and 62% of your nonparents non-staff were supportive. So majority support from all three of those key subgroups. But and we'll do this a couple of times. Not all those groups are the same size. So what we need to do is we need to take that data and weight it based on how much of a proportion each of those are. So what we see here um based on some an external US census American community survey data about a quarter of your electorate are parents. So we need to weight their support which came in at 80%. Of your nonparents non-staff your

023broader community members that neither have kids in school nor are employed by you. They make up about 3/4 of the community with 62% support. staff are really influential but tend to make up no more than 1% if that of your electorate on election day. So really influential but numbers wise not that many of them. But what we're seeing here if we carry this equation up to fruition is if this election were held today approximately twothirds of the community would support maintaining their current level of operational funding. As you know though that certainly wasn't the only question in the survey. Following that immediately was the setup. So non-recurring versus recurrent. Four options that we're going to collapse into three in just a moment. So here, because we didn't know what the community would say yet, it

024read, "If the community supports replacing the referendum funding, which we just learned they did, then how should the funding be set up?" What I want to do here is just set the either aside for just a moment. And I want to focus only on the two main options here of non-recurring or recurring because either we can take care of and and reallocate in just a moment. But what I see here is staff prefer non-recurring to recurring. In other words, non-recurring to one that expires. Your parents re prefer non-recurring to recurring. And by a wide wide margin, your non-parents non- staff also prefer non-recurring. Just to make this a bit uh this data a bit easier to eyeball. Um what we did then on the next slide is just reallocated the ivory. So for instance the

02538% I took that and added it to 36. I took the 38 and added it to 17 just to make this a bit clearer. But this the message holds true. All three of your current subgroups support a nonrecurring setup than they do recurring. especially for that key key large group of your community, the purple people, your nonparent shots. Then still in the operational funding frame, um there was a question about additional staff compensation, looking at and analyzing the study um and what that said. Um it would provide a wage increase for all support staff. Here the question read specifically, would you support a refund that provides $675,000 each year on an ongoing basis to help make staff compensation more competitive with schools in our region? Just like your original operational question, yes, no. So your

026non or excuse me your staff 93 to2 parents 79 to 111 and of those that had an opinion your non-parents non- staff also majority 59% to 32% for this question. Very similar results here. When you weight that based on how big each of those groups are you're looking at just under 2/3. That was then the end of your operational questions. We then turn the page to facility flag. So here there were four main projects that were driven by the question you see up top. So the community viability team identified these as priorities. So then the question to the community was would you pay to complete each project below at this time. Those four those four being career teched indoor athletics the PAC and outdoor athletics. Let me begin with your respondents put together and then

027we'll break these up a little bit much like we just did. So then the question read would you pay to compete? Would you pay to complete each project below at this time? It was a yes no question. CTE by quite a bit garnered the most support. About 2/3 of your survey respondents said yes I would I would pay to support the CTE project. I would say kind of the second tier then just below 50% at 49% respectively you heard yes for indoor athletics and outdoor athletics and then 43% came in as a yes for PAC. When we peel those apart I was curious whether the order changed depending on which subgroup I was in. And the answer was kind of but kind of not. So number one priority across all three key subgroups was CTE.

028In other words, that garnered the most yeses from your staff, from your parents or from your non-parents nonstaff. >> This is interesting. >> Then it varied a little bit. >> Your parents second highest priority was indoor athletics followed by outdoor athletics followed by the PAC. For your non-parents, non-staff, once again, their highest priority is CTE, followed by outdoor athletics, followed by indoor athletics, and then the PAC. Your staff, once again, number one, CTE, followed by the PAC, outdoor athletics, indoor athletics. That's all well and good though. But then we have to figure out what the tax tolerance is for your residents and taxpayers. In other words, how much money are you willing to see leave your wallet in order to pay for the projects that you identified you would pay for on the previous page?

029It was 15 million up to the all-in cost at 33.3 million. And of course, the most important number in here then is that's all well and good. Maybe I'm yes, maybe I know, but I can't decide. I can't know until I know how much this is going to cost me depending on how much property value I have. And in order to make the multiplication as easy as possible, it was infer $100,000 of property value. And this is what we learned. So, first a question. Assuming the projects included were acceptable to you, what referendum level would you support? We're going to begin up here in the upper left with your biggest group of your community, your nonparents, non- staff, or other community members. And we're going to go left to right. So the first thing we

030see here is if the board decided that they wanted to put a $33.3 million referendum on the ballot, about 11% of the biggest chunk of the community would support that. So we know that that's not going to be supported. So basically the idea here then is how low do you need to go until you cross a 50% threshold for each key subgroup. So your non-parents, non- staff, they cross at something small. For a different way to say that is cumulatively if I'm voting to support 33.3 I'm voting to support something cheaper at 30. I'm willing to support something cheaper at 25 because the tax impacts only go down. So once again for your non-parents not staff they cross 50% support in your yellow which is something smaller than 15 million. Your parents are three levels

031out. Your parents come in support of 25 million as do your staff. But we have to do that same waiting exercise and say, "Well, based on how big each of those groups are, how much support would we expect to garner on election day should you decide to take each of these to ballot?" Here, I think this table's all well and good, but I found it easier to do this. This is the same data as the previous slide, just in a more visual way. So, what this is saying with weighted support, if the board determined they wanted to move ahead with a $15 million capital referendum, you are within the margin of error. You're a little over 50%, but that margin of error being about 3 to three 12%. There is a pesky plus or minus

032sign there. 15 million is basically a flip of a coin right now. It would be firmly in the too close to call. That support then declines as you would expect as the tax impacts go up as things get more expensive. In fact, kind of in the middle here is pretty linear. For about every $5 million that's added to the referendum, support declines by approximately 10%. Looking the other way though, something smaller than 15 million garers about 63% of the electoral. So then looking back knowing that 15 million is too small, probably something slightly smaller than 15 million um would be to go back and look at what the priority levels are and see what amount of projects you want to do knowing you have to keep it under the dollar amount that the community just

033finally then um there were some future facility planning. So these were projects that the survey disclosed would not be included in the November referendum. But the question was when do we do so? As soon as possible 5 to 10 years or this is not a priority for me right now. And I believe there were five high school gym, softball and baseball support areas, varsity softball and JD baseball rebre facility and the performing arts expansion. here. What I like to do is see how you shake out in terms of being above or below two. If you're above two, just going back to my scale here, you're kind of in the, you know, address kind of as soon as possible, you know, up to about five years or so. If you're above two here, none of your

034items exceeded two. So, what I'm kind of seeing here is you're definitely getting out of that 10year range or this is not a priority for somebody at this time. Though that said, the order shook out as high school gym being most supported, followed by varsity, softball, JB baseball rebrades, softball and baseball support areas, the highway 60 field, and finally the performing arts station. So all were pretty close, but all were kind of in the do this later. So this is the priority for me at this time over here. Um kind of what I fell into. Um, so the first twoish were kind of similar. Uh, high school gym is either the top or second highest priority for your staff, your parents, or for your nonparents, non- staff. Your varsity softball and JP baseball regrade was

035second highest for staff, but actually the number one overall for non-parents non staff. The regrade is fifth for your largest group, your non-parents, non-staff. So, I guess what what we kind of see shaking out here is that upper level projects on high school gym and varsity softball and JV baseball reread are probably the most supportive across all three groups. Your softball and baseball support vary, but kind of closer to the bottom are your JV um or excuse me, the high 60 field and performing arts expansion. That's at the bottom for your staff and parents and then for marathon parents on staff. All right, then. Now, this is the final part. Um these are our overall satisfaction questions. Um these particular questions I guess are not why you're hired us but I mean this might be

036so I was a teacher before I before I was employed by school perception. This might be the most interesting and valuable to me as a former educator. Um the question read how is the district doing each of the following areas? And spoiler alert here you have fantastic data. Um the scale run um great good fair score is a four worst score is a one. So when I eyeball these 12 numbers for the first time across our key three key subgroups, I want to look and see are any numbers above or below two and a half. And actually every single number on your screen here is above two and a half, meaning you're above the median of the scale. For many of these numbers, you're leaning towards the great range, especially for your staff. Your staff

037see themselves as delivering a high quality education. The district is keeping the public informed. The schools are a point of pride in the community. And something I I'd like to nip in the bud right away is is sometimes we do these presentations and somebody say, "Well, yeah, but staff of course they're going to say that." And the answer really is no. We've seen data that are just atrocious for staff. And that really worries me because if staff aren't happy, it doesn't matter what your initiatives are. It doesn't matter what you're trying to do. It doesn't matter if it's a a capital referendum, an operational referendum, strategic planning. If the staff aren't happy, nobody is because they are your first line of ambassadors, especially in a smaller community like Loi and you have fantastic staff data.

038Your parents um about two and a half across the board as are your non-parents non- staff. One of the things that maybe surprised, pleasantly surprised me, um, you're actually my third board being of the night here, and you're the only one that I've seen recently that didn't land below two and a half for non-parents, non- staff, and parents. Because typically what happens is people will say, "Well, you must not be managing your funds appropriately or you wouldn't be asking me for more money. Therefore, I'm going to document managing funds appropriately." Aren't they your lowest scores? Yeah, but I would say you're the anomaly by still being above two and a half. A different way to look at this is by pulling all of your respondents together, much like we did when I presented your data

039in 2021. First exciting thing here, your scores in 2026 are above where you were in 2021. Every one of these items is better now as evaluated by your community than they were. whether it's the quality of the education, how you're keeping the public informed, the extent to which you're managing funds appropriately, and whether you're a source of pride in the community. Again, I'll be a broken record. Every score now is higher than you were 5 years ago. What we can also do, because we ask these on all of our community surveys that we do, we can put you in a pool of other districts that look like you. What does that mean? It means first we say um other districts that are rural, suburban or urban that also serve K12 students. Then once we have

040you in that bucket, we say what are other districts that have similar enrollments, similar staff student ratios, similar revenue per pupil, and similar amount of families experiencing poverty. We push a pool of other districts that have similar characteristics along those six lines. And we say, well, how do you stack up? What's a normal score for a district that looks like you? Two of these items here. Nobody is outperforming you. You're outperforming everybody else in your comparison pool on the extent to which you're delivering a high quality education and keeping the public informed. Suck the curve. You're outperforming 61% of other school districts that look like you in terms of managing funds appropriately. and you're outperforming 95% of other districts that look like you in terms of you being a source of pride in the community.

041Finally, guys, the last question on a scale of 0 to 10, how likely would you be to recommend a district to a friend or family member? Multiple ways to look at this as well. Right now, your score is above eight. I'll come back to that thought in just a moment, but that's a big threshold to cross. Uh you're higher than you were last time around. Right now, you're at 8.04. When I showed you this in 2021, you're at a 7.30. So, you went up and once again, you are above a normal score for a district that looks like you. Typically, a district with your characteristics has a score of 7.26 and you are outperforming 95% of other districts in your comparison. A second way to look at this, I guess there's multiple ways. um one

042just where you're sort of as you're well above neutral here in terms of willingness to recommend on a zero to 10 scale. That's just one way to look at it. The other way is again as you have you went up or down you have. You're above your comparison. You're outperforming almost everybody else. But the fifth way to look at this is by taking a look and summing up your eights, your nines, and your tens. Shouldn't do math live here, but 39 and 19, what's that? 58 plus another 14, 72%. Why does that matter? Because the research behind this question suggests that anybody that gives themselves an eight, a nine or a 10 is an ambassador for you. They are an ambassador on your behalf. I.e. they are the ones that will strike up a conversation

043with somebody else about the good the cool things that schools are doing. They are the folks that are walking up and down the road. They are the ones that are working in the concession stand at a softball tour. They are the ones that are striking up a conversation about a family reunion this summer talking about the good things that low value is doing. So I mentioned that this score of eight is a big threshold across because on average your average survey respondent is an ambassador on your behalf and that I can maybe count I don't know that I need two hands to count up all the districts that I've seen have that happen to. So again that's really exciting data. 72% of folks are are ambassadors on your behalf. They are talking well about you

044and you don't have to do anything to motivate them to do so. They are already in your corner. So putting that all together, what did we learn? A there is majority support for renewing the operating referendum at the level. B respondents prefer a non-recurring to a recurring referendum set i.e. expiry versus non-expiring. C. There is majority support for additional compensation. D. Support for a $15 million building referendum is above 50%. I think it was at 518. Um, but that number is within the margin of error. Support grows to outside the margin of error for a smaller building referendum. B, the highest priority building project among all three subgroups is CTE. and LOI is outperforming their peers in all satisfaction metrics and all of those metrics increased from 21 to 26. I'm going to pause here.

045I'm going to take a sip of my water but certainly whatever questions you have and more than happy. >> Thanks Rob. Uh appreciate it. Uh questions board members. >> So we have a bunch of uh staff here tonight and I just wanted to say All right. And administration. >> Thank you very much. >> No, it definitely shows that for sure. Um, I appreciate all this. It's great how it's set up. looking at it. >> We're going to have a lot of conversations, aren't we? >> Well, this will make our conversations a lot easier, though. Also, >> no, that's No, that's for sure. That's what I'm saying. >> We've got pointers for directions. >> Yes. >> And it's lovely to see that people are so supportive of an operational reference. >> Yeah. >> Employee, you know,

046compensation. >> No, it's set up great. I don't Do you guys have any questions? >> I haven't got spend time on it. >> The the $675,000 each year, is that the way that that question was phrased or the way that you're reporting these results? Is that an amount in addition to the 5.98 million that we currently have or is is that 675,000 a year part of the 5.98 that we currently have? Uh yeah, Vince, I might be you for a little bit of this too, but I the way the question was set up here is replacing the current level of referendum funding. So the 6.75 the assumption was that would be part of that not above that because that went into a number that we didn't test but Vince correct me if I'm wrong in

047that and that >> yeah I think it's it's looking at that being part of it I I don't think that's clear one way or the other like if um looking back we should have made it more clear that it would be above um but it's um so I don't think the question is as clear as it needs to be on that. I think that's something that's important for the board when we're >> figuring this out. If if I understand the I understand the numbers and the re the respondents >> to the six to the 675. I for my for my mind I just need to know if if you've got the 5.98 plus the 675 or if it the 675 is a part of that 5.98. And I you guys gave me my answer. >>

048Yeah, I think I the goal was to put it as as separate, but I can see how it' be written as together or thought of as together. That makes sense. >> Yeah, that's why I wanted to get some clarity on that. >> I think there's a lack of questions, Rob, because this is so well laid out and you've gone over every single point and so you've answered all the questions already. >> Appreciate it. Too bad the boss isn't here. Can I get that right? >> Yeah. >> He's actually want to tonight so >> Oh, be competitive. But I >> don't want >> Yeah, we don't want to talk about want to keep. Just kidding. Just kidding. >> I'll just I won't say anything. I'll just put this up and we will do whatever we want.

049>> There we go. >> I was I was gonna say I like that one the best. >> Rob, we got another question. I was I was in the I was the board leaison, the board representative to the CVT team and there were lots and lots of meetings and a lot of time spent on trying to narrow down the scope of projects and specifically narrow down the total cost of the referendum. But I I think I'm just stating something more than asking a a question. But as far as these building referendum support from the community, if again the way that it's been presented to us as far as recommendations from that team, it was a price tag of $33 million. And I don't see that there's any way, shape, or form that the community is going

050to support that amount based on these survey results. In order for us to realistically expect the community to pass a building referendum, from what I'm seeing here, we need to have that number at 15 million or less, which is more than half. >> Yeah. So 18 million less than what it was presented to us as. So, as the CVT also did, as you know, Scott, they went through and prioritized each of those areas as well. Like in each of those areas, there was like a bucket. Here's a bucket of CT was a bucket all by itself. There really wasn't any changes with that. Um, but indoor athletics, there were buckets. This was the highest priority bucket. This was the next, this was that. So, there was pool, locker rooms, uh, wrestling, fitness, um, PAC. there

051was um some priorities put there. Outdoor athletics, I don't know if we did as good a job of prioritizing those, but that there was priorities. So, that's the discussion the board is going to have to have is do we want to look at that priority list and >> just go from the top to the bottom or we want to pick something out of each one? And that's the discussion we'll have as a board knowing what this number is. >> We'll be busy. >> Any other questions for Rob? No, it was excellent. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thanks, Rob. We appreciate it. >> Thank you so much. >> If anything comes up, then you determine where to find me. Otherwise, you folks have a good night. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. You too.

052Bye. >> Um and as kind as we talked here, the the board will now take this information and um really start to look at coming together around what a possible referendum will look like in November of 2026. We're not doing that tonight. This is the information. plenty of time to look at it. Um there's also comments that come with the survey which I will share with all of you. Um both of those will be uh posted on our website tomorrow. Um the the results here and then the comments. Um and then um we'll get together and we've talked about some potential meeting dates to start talking about these pieces and come up with like some options to look at and hopefully come back and have a robust discussion of that June. request. >> Thank you.

053>> Another question. >> Now we're moving on to our gallery walk. Right. >> All right. >> So, just again a reminder of the gallery walk. Um we have uh balance scorecards which are grounded in the district strategic plan which was developed through broad community engagement in 2021 in uh the conversation for our future event. uh priorities that emerged in that work became the pillars of our strategic plan approved by the board in July of 2021. To help ensure alignment of those community identified priorities, the district developed district-wide balance scorecard. Much like our vital signs provide a snapshot for overall health, the scorecard gives us a clear picture of our current state and helps us monitor progress with our highest priority strategies. While the board approved the refresh plan in December 2025, which will guide our

054future work, the updated plan will serve the foundation for scorecards beginning next year. This is still based on the 2021 scorecard because it was mid year. We weren't going to change goals mid year. Um so to help bring this work to life, we've invited staff from each of the building to join us tonight, participate in a gallery walk. Staff will share the strategies they're using in their buildings to implement two of the strategic plan pillars. Um again, you're familiar with this how it work. We'll divide into small groups, rotate through four station set up in your district office. Uh elementary OSC presenting together up here at the front board. Uh middle school uh will be in the conference room over there. primary school I believe over here and then across the way it will be

055the high school and their conference room. Um we will set a timer for 10 minutes and we will just rotate. Um so if staff want to get where they need to >> we just need to break up into group. >> Break us up into group. >> Yeah. There you go. >> So you two can go to the high school. >> You two go to the primary school. You guys want to go elementary LSC. And you guys go to the middle school and then we'll just rotate this way. >> That's great. That's I don't Well, welcome everyone. >> So, if you didn't know, my name is Eric Schum. I'm principal at le Christopher teacher. >> Let's first introduce ourselves. >> Really two areas but three pillars to cover. One of those is attendance um which obviously

056all the things we have planned to do in our building don't matter and so we've done some work around attendance that we want to share with you and then we also um thought about our community values we'll start with those two goals that we just want to highlight the first one is that we've been working on >> share this out and then we're going to have and Kathy are going to start this work >> 25th percentile a little bit our intervention student attendance to review attendant students and families in attendance pretty good at 96% but uh we recommended that affect student attendance that we can't control there's um student um or family mental health mental health issues illnesses appointments and then family emergencies so um we have a group that works hard to help students

057know that students that are they also participating in the next um we are doing something a little bit different we're working on alphabet fluency try to write the alphabet in lowerase letters I can and then we're doing some decor once a week so I give them a word students are attendance everything so the calendar we send Um and the surveys are the first time the year I think about 5 days is when they get their first letter and for example last week they um today we've been really this week we're really talking and trying your best and caring through. So today we've done able to compare some kids from last year. Last year kids who are trying to this year we were very proud of them for >> they listen to the story. So it's

058been nice to see the data for the last two years too. It is okay to make >> some of the things that have kind of helped with that is we've also done a better job communicating with classroom teachers where students are at with their attendance to reach out to them what we're learning. We also incorporate our check and check out code systems for students. student wrote about >> and then this is an example of our approval pages of it just see what the reason kids do come to school about challenges so we can at home so we can brainstorm together like a moment and then we have a lot of adults are willing to do some extra things to connect with students help them second or whether or one of us and then also referrals

059to PA which is the psychotherapist. >> Oh sorry mental health issue. Um and so being able to recognize that and be able to get them to the people. >> These are all things we're doing to help support our most students to help them. Um, one of the things we're working on, another goal is% >> Well, I think like in general you have a mixture in general of things that happening for next year. >> So 96% of our kids are coming. >> So we've been meeting all time. So we're really looking at that 4% of students who are struggling and of those 4% I would say they're like one and a half% of them I would say students who have plans with >> kind of our experiences with it and then thinking about our look for

060document which just >> some of those plans too is really also kind of breaking the school and home barrier >> we see a lot of improvement when we don't just ask families to enjoy it on Friday. >> Yes. But more importantly, it is attached to look for and that's was a really fruitful conversation. >> Yeah. Uh so this week and I will be nurturing the whole student. I wanted to highlight the community building as well. >> Um so our school counselor does an activity during her uh guidance lessons and then we want to make sure that that learning is carried on. So the classroom teachers the goal was once in a six day cycle. >> Yeah. So this is what drives us uh people first ready to learn. So what are the activities classroom teachers

061with careers go over what does this look like? What does it sound like? What's it feel like? What does it need to be determined? Be empathetic. All that and then each month she's one of my favorites to their classmates who they think are reaching that level whatever we're at. So empathetic and so a teacher we will talk about reminding them again what does empathetic look like you know and then they go and vote and then we get to see the results and sometimes we get to say yep uh spot or you know what this is a child that I think is really shown to be really empathetic and >> experience we all got the presentation if you guys saw the presentation what we were going to go through >> and so they get called the

0624K it down but I paired it. I paired it down. I I took it a little easy on them. Um but then but they still got the example last year when they were so looking forward to going out there how to plant it correctly and they were really concerned make sure that others are recognized. It was really kind of funny cuz I was like you don't like the tree won't grow. I'm like you're right. Um so it was really cool but um so we went out and went to the school forest obviously. >> Um one of the things we do Kathy helps with this is home for each theme. I had to drag out and they got to the tree and you know make sure they put it down and they were all they all

063brought their bottles of water like I was really impressed like some of them get water they all brought their bottles of water um coming through the tree got what they needed um >> songs and then and then they got and then there were quite a few that sang >> this is a video you want to talk about this >> one of my kids was every night before and so in the front so But I think the cool part is like our kids um see what's happening. So we let them know what days of that lunch and then it's just pictures and I pull pictures from everything in a row. Sometimes it's pictures that sometimes it's pictures in the lunchroom. pictures in the music the art room and just and then in the lunchroom the only

064difference they see >> I actually got back I told the kids that they were exhausted from being out there so >> someday when they say >> it seems simple but they are so excited they're like treat I'm like it's not going to be >> they'll eat lunch and watch a little quieter >> kind of they felt a sense of joy and I found to what they have done >> and if you ever want to know take a to the school forest or to a hill and watch >> pure joy with our sometimes kids do things >> trophy for us that they're team one they want us to go put some We did this on Thursday. This was on Friday. And as the kids started earning money towards this, we got to dress up and I

065were dressed up as Mario characters. Kids got bubbles in the morning before school. And then one of their favorite this is their place. We have our TV decorate their tables, clear. And then we are adding a TV like >> really sweet. And then the last thing I wanted to just Mr. once a semester to families that have um wanted to sign up for this information just to be able to share it highlighted. Um and I just wanted to highlight that we already have looked at this individual that are not part of our system. Um and just getting information and so in this it introduces our schools. Um Dr. writing has an article in this. We have pictures of just different events that we highlight. >> We share and highlight round so they can find out

066if they want to do that or for registration. Just again information to get the district. So just another way to encourage that communication >> question. >> Oh, it was really fun. >> Yeah. just the pride. You know, it's going to be a snow focus. Okay, today is uh you know encouraging others or this money and then you let it go. You're constantly talking about it. Um you're pointing out examples. You're saying that we just tied it. >> We don't need that. Yes, your tree is definitely up there right there. >> I mean, everybody wants win, right? Everybody wants to be chosen. So you can see kids are like determined try to do better. >> Well, thank you. >> Thank you. >> I want to stick around. I can answer your question. Don't you just love

067it? It just was so >> Come on over. Welcome. >> So this is like this how much it'll cost me as this question. This is what Mr. Carl >> Mr. Brewer. >> All right. Well, I think you all know us. Um, so we'll just kind of pause. >> So, I'm Mr. Schman. I'm the principal of LS No. Christopher McNeel, fifth grade educator. >> Kathy Glicky. I'm in the office. Carrie Bar counselor. >> So, we chose two areas really three pillars to focus on. We kind of cheated a little. So our first area is about attendance because we understand that we can have all these great things in place but if we don't get kids to school attendance matters some of the work we've done there and then also our focus on what our priorities >>

068THAT'S BETTER THAT'S CUTE. WE ARE THE ATTENDANCE rate is 96%. So, we do a pretty good job, but there's always a few kiddos that can use a little bit of extra support. So, we recognize that a lot of factors can impact student attendance that we can't control student or family mental health issues. Um, a lot of illnesses, um, appointments, and then family emergencies as well. Uh, but we work really hard to help students know that they're an important member of our learning community and we want to help them feel safe and cared about. >> Um, so I'm going to let Kathy take over a little bit about our attendance meetings and how we kind of week to week. Once a week, we go through and I take the data and we put it from a

069spreadsheet. This is our second year using a spread uh doing a spreadsheet system and we're able to track the kids attendance. We send letters out the first part of the year once they leave. five days from the start of the year till December. We give them a little reminder letter and then it's eight days from January to March and then it's 10 days after that and then they get a reminder letter from us. At 10 days then they do get an email from Eric or Kerry for trying to get an attendance meeting and seeing what's going on and the kid and we do keep track of it through help the kids out with one of these as well. >> Yeah. So, one of the big parts and kind of an adjustment that we've done is

070is now in the tracking and the meetings and all that part, but also making sure we're communicating not just with families, but also with the classroom teacher um so that they understand the work that's going on, maybe the barriers that this family is experiencing. Um, so communicating with everyone um and then also um this is an example of our improvement plan. So if we have a student who's really struggling um having meeting with that family and talking about what are the students interests, what are their strengths and then what are those barriers so that we can figure out what's preventing them from getting to school and kind of being creative with that. One thing that we've seen a lot of success with is um kind of breaking down that barrier, not just having families come

071to us, but us going to them for those meetings um or going there to have some of those conversations so they see that it's this partnership. families have been really supportive of that which we appreciate and it's really helped the kids see that hey we're all working together um for you and it's not anybody against anyone. Um the other thing Carrie has really good uh uh hints she gives families of like hey if if in the morning's difficult give that part off. Um so let's shower the night before, get dressed the night before, go to sleep in your clothes for the next morning. And that's been something that's super helpful. But another big part is just that connection with adults. So whether it's um you know this year we've added our our lunch buddies program

072um we also have adults who are willing to connect with kids whether it's their former teachers um and then also when it is a mental health situation we've been able to refer people to our psychotherapy center which has been super helpful >> writing that second semester just to give them >> all right this uh this is what drives our school these community values is people first, ready to learn, inclusive of everyone, determined, empathetic, and encouraging. And so each month we'll focus on one of those. So for example, people first classrooms can talk about what does that look like feel like here in the classroom? What what do you what is people first? >> And so throughout the month, we do reminders of what it looks like. And then my favorite part is students get to

073vote for two classmates who they think show the best example of being people first, for example. And then they get these awards as Mr. Shinman reminded me because I do need to remind last year I had a student who was consistently getting voted as low guardian and he or she said um if I get let someone else and so his classroom teachers they share the results and we can go through even though the student was chosen we really think this student went above and beyond this month and deserves that recognition. And so, uh, the great thing is when they announce the names, uh, the students get up and clap, applaud, and everybody's so excited, and it's just, it's one of my favorite parts. >> But the day that they get these awards, Kathy also sends

074an email home letting parents know that their student was selected, um, what they were selected for, which value, and then to ask your student what you know about that and why they think that they were selected. Um, and then also to post that on social media, and we send it to our local components. We're gonna have discussions as grade level teams about what are the must dos, right? >> Um, this next thing is something we started two years ago. It runs on our front entry TV and it runs a little differently, but it also runs by our cafeteria and inside our cafeteria. So, it lets the kids know what's for lunch that day. If it's in the cafeteria, it wants to know what's for lunch and breakfast the falls the next day. So, they look

075forward. It's got our lunch bunch where they meet with Carrie and have lunch. So, they know what they can go do that. And then it's just got student pictures. and I change the pictures out. I try to change them out every two days. Um, and whether it's from outings or field trips or whether we're going to the classrooms or it's just from asking the recess um staff to help me out and get some pictures, put pictures, this is where the kids love sitting and watching their faces come through. So, that's been a really great part for us to be able to have and show our pride at school. >> Why do you need to pick a career? >> Yeah. One of the big things, too, is sometimes at this level, we get kids who are

076really excited not just about things that happen in school, but things that are happening outside of school. Um, so last year I know we had a student who was would go on races like with little cars, not little cars, big cars. Um, and would want to um send us some pictures of that. We put that into the slides. Um, you know, people catching big fish or teams winning a trophy tournaments. And so we're able to put that into these slides and kids are able to see see that. It just helps build that community, helps them understand that this is their building. Um, and that we are interested in what they're doing, not just in school, but outside of school. Um, a lot of these right now are focused on our field trips or field trips

077we've been going on. But each year or each time of the year, we kind of set the tone of what we think is important, too, right? So, we get to show those pictures. >> They really do feel like they belong. They can see themselves up there and they get to seek everybody in this in the building together just through something like that. It's pretty amazing. >> Forest and just tires and the tires that is the most exciting part of the grow forest and then being able to see different grade levels and what they were doing pride pictures, you know, >> rolling it those experiences. because it just fostered a lot of conversations in the cafeteria and they roll it back up and they chase it and they um we currently have like Kathy said one

078the entry one in the cafeteria one just outside the cafeteria and the summer >> like someday hopefully be big um and I told my kids at the end of the day I said you know someday I'm going to take my >> love it that's awesome a >> lot of work on these people >> that they do for for our students >> for are now gonna be adults and they >> so um it was just this is neat fun you know like >> so the students earned a third of the We had a dress peach and Mr. was Mario. So that was fun. The kids got bubbles beforehand and then she had this fancy dress. It was I mean honestly it was such a name of these activities and everything else. We want to be able

079like how do we have a regular basis connect with them. So once a seme semester news about our schools for them here and what we do is we just share like different things that happen throughout the year so they'll know service day just things to get them excited about there's always somebody else there >> hopefully doesn't even come on our radar. >> It's been really great because there's been heads before and then I would like go down there like or I think we've talked about should one of us meet them and then we get down >> and they're sitting with somebody else and it's just like they absorb them right in. It's been great. But if we sometimes craft or something and then they have enough to the >> head get something for the end

080of the year too. The last one until sixth grade. >> I just don't like this. This one was readers. They hadn't come in for like five minutes and I was like, "Okay, >> this is better before school and after school when they're like running." All right, we're going to get bubbles before >> the loudest. Not just You too. We are so I'm principal. >> I'm Christopher McNeel, educator. >> So nice to meet you. >> Kathy Glicky. I work in the office. >> So we kind of cheated a little bit. Two areas but three pillars. So our first one is dependence which covers this first gallery >> and then our second area is our team. >> We're going to share a little bit about >> we will have a couple different um colors. The first one

081color one. So in the past few years since I've been a big effort to improve student attendance and just put some systems and supports in place to review our attendance and really be able to report students and families when attending to be able um luckily our attendance rate is 96%. So we're doing pretty well but there's always a few kiddos that just need that little extra support. We recognize that there are a lot of factors um that we can't control like mental health issues, illnesses, appointments, and family emergencies. Um but we work hard to help students know they're an important um part of our learning community and we just want to help them feel safe, seen, and cared for. So um Kathy and Eric and I meet once a week um just to review attendance

082and then I'm going to let K talk a little bit about how we do that. >> Yep. We meet and I look and track the attendance. We've made a spreadsheet. We've been able to look at kids attendance within two years on these two spreadsheets. second grade, first grade and um we work with them and between the beginning of the year and December if they've been absent five times they get a letter and then from December January to March it's eight times and from March to the end of the year 10th time they get a letter time they will also get an email or a phone call from put >> yeah one of the things So that I dictate a word to them. We started using the Google form. So after touch this calendar and each

083day has a link to they can put in any kids are sleeping if you know they're going to be there the next day or whatever. So that's been super helpful. Um sometimes we'll see a kid who doesn't isn't there yet. Hopefully just put something in. Um so that's also very helpful. And then communicating with them as you got better at this. One of the things we recognize we weren't always communicating that with classroom teachers where we at with the process that's something update on where we're at with where kids are at. Um also we do check and check students so they feel connected. We know what some of those barriers are something with school and then when we do this is the beginning of our improvement plan process but we talk about you know what

084are we doing? What do we send letters but also we talk with the family about barriers. What are the barriers for the students? what are the things that they really enjoy and how can we leverage those um one of the nice parts about that is also breaking down this barrier of just having them come to us. There's been times where we um we offer to go to the the family car and I take him a few car rides and we go there um whether it's to pick up a student but also just have a conversation about what's then the students can see us all working on the same page with that also has really taking a shower the night before getting dressed getting all that stuff done so all I have to do in the

085morning telling you guys because like this kind of Um when we talked about mental health, um it's not just always a mental health issue for students, but sometimes for families, too. And so being able to recognize that, leave on some county supports, but also our own supports students and families to be count >> because that's the goal, right? >> So letter tracing is something we focus on, right? So people first, ready to learn, inclusive of everyone, determined, empathetic, and encouraging. So, as cluster teachers, as all staff in the building, we pick one of these that that month and we focus on that. So, we talk about what's it mean to be ready to learn. Um, and then throughout that month, we keep doing reminders, keep teaching what that looks like. And then, favorite activity at

086the end of the month, the students choose two classmates who they think show the best uh guardians of Roy for that area. And um then they're recognized and as we've mentioned in previous sessions here um last year I had a student who was always getting a class selected by I want somebody else to get and so we get the results and as classroom teachers and staff we can look and say you know what um even though I got high this really come a long way and so then they get called uh the morning announcements and the class cheers and it's really really cool to see and then they go ahead and get recognized. >> One of the things you do to recognize them is give them a certificate. Um the other thing we do is

087Kathy emails the family home and lets them know that their student got a certificate that morning and then when they get home hopefully show it to you and explain what they why they got that and how we're thankful for them being a productive part of our our community and showing pride and then it is posted on social media and it's sent to our local paper. >> Yep. Nick's gonna present at the beginning. Then, >> oh my gosh, that's hilarious. >> It's our favorite slide. >> He starts us off to work on this look document. In the document, we have this on our TV when you come into the entryway at school on the TV in the lunchroom and on a TV playing outside of the lunchroom. So, in the entryway at school, it shows what

088the breakfast is for the day and on the lunch room shows tomorrow's test. I hope everything lunch and then we show the lunch. They meet with Carrie on third, fourth and fifth and then post their pictures and this is their favorite part for the kids is seeing their pictures. Right now it's a lot of pictures and out and about but typically pictures from gym art music just being in the classroom being in the cafeteria being outside and the kids this is one of the kids seeing their faces on pictures. >> How's that going to look? One of the things about our student population is they love to tell us about things that school as well. And for example, one student last year um he was big into racing and so he would send us pictures

089of his um his success racing and he posts right over the weekend picture with the trophy. We're able to put that up. um things like that that just help us kind of make this home and school connection and let them see themselves. Um help them take that ownership in our our school community. One thing they did say to the other group that I've really noticed is less issues in the bathroom or in the hallway as yours better. So it was just it was a lot of fun and it was just really such a great place at our >> Yeah. So those are some of the big things that we've been doing as far as attendance and a part of our community values. Um working on those items actually at the end of the hallway when

090uh it'll be exciting where I'm at. So all the fourth lines from each other and so they come down and we'll have a bad Saturday. They all jump around. But then >> uh the big one is high fives. >> Big one and a little high but they got staff out in the hallways in the morning and the ladies that are out there are always like good morning so positive. And then um at the end of the day you have staff you know if they can get out the wishing a good rest it seems like a little checking in with me I just think it's you know again being the old one 28 years like that I think is just start and so it just highlights our district number 106 people that school. So, um, this

091is online that we sent. So, anyone filled out the newsletter? I I think it's things like this. >> Yeah. >> Well, in our community, we have a lunch buddy program this year at >> college. I think the best Sure enough. >> Oh, nice. >> Thank you guys. >> Thanks. >> Hi, Terry. >> Hi. We're here. This is just one. >> So we So we'll introduce again because we do have this brand new person. >> Well, welcome. >> So we're kind of so principal. >> Hi. Thanks for a couple different. So we are kind of cheating the system a little bit. We picked two areas to cover about three pillars. Um attendance is our first one that we're going to go over and that covers a couple pillars and um it really matters because program school

092really doesn't matter. And so there's some things we've done there. And then the other part is our community values. So our low pride, how we're living that out, how we're encouraging that student. This is like a second grade example. >> Doing a really good job the last year or two before I got here um of making an effort to improve student attendance. But um with Kathy South the last couple years and using Next Path, we've been able to really um put some systems into place to review attendance and then support our students and families when attendance is becoming a concern. Um so currently our attendance rate is at 96% which is great. Um but there are still some students that struggle and we recognize that there's a lot of factors that impact those things like

093mental health issues and then family but we work hard and we just we are working on so they start each day by writing their name and then they write and this week we're working on positive all kinds to see the kids from last two years on their own being more of the year and December once they hit 5 between January and March if it's between March and the end about music and so we're prepar to see if we can get into >> and that's just another way to tie it. We're also tracking a lot making mistakes persevering that first grable to get kids up to middle school kindergarten form and so we've been really working with families understand it is okay to make so they can put those in ahead of getting those pre-approved absences

094and then also working with us. We recognize that we have improved our communication with everyone just weren't always communicating perfectly with classroom teachers so they didn't know how process and that's gotten a lot better. Um also just that removing the barriers sometimes for families. So we get to the point that we have to have an attendance meeting. Um they understand that we're there to support them. Um and then what we do in those meetings is obviously we go over like all the things that we're doing but we also talk about what are the students interests what do they really feel why school what are the reasons they aren't coming to school we try to brainstorm that um we also try to break it as well and they really emphas there's a lot of third and

095fourth grade and fifth grade students who really don't want extra should have had their help for some reason and so there's that but they also get to see that their family and the school are there to support them and then um part of that though is kind of what you had mentioned earlier too was family mental health and so sometimes just really recognizing okay we know the student but we don't know their situation family situation and we get to build that connection with the family and see maybe what they need, how we can support them. And sometimes it's just really giving them the permission to let me be the bad guy. Um, right. It's hard when your kid is struggling to get to school. >> You know, it came like that. No, he >> but

096at first he had hair so he had to go back to the truck. >> Yeah, they feel alone. >> They feel alone. >> And then that bridges >> and the other part in this process we found out is there's there are some really as well. And then also we have supports from people from adults. U we have a lunch buddy program. >> Is that working that is awesome? They come twice a month. Um we also are able to if it is a mental health issue to refer to peacock psychotherapy center want to keep. Um and then we're able to also lean on some adults that they maybe have relationships with even within the building. So whether it's a former teacher or subject commander that they really enjoy and connect with them as well just a

097few weeks ago and it was a huge part of our community building. >> Great. All right. Community values. So we have our uh areas of people first, ready to learn, inclusive of everyone, determined, empathetic and encouraging. We talk to our students and >> teach them what does this look like? What does it see like? What does it feel like? What do you what does this what do you hear? Yeah. Yep. Just like drives. Um and then uh throughout the month uh so let's say uh this month it's ready to learn. And so in the classroom we talk about what's that mean? What does that look like? And at the end of the month, one of my favorite things is they get to vote for two classmates who they think have shown that vote on guardian

098pride for that community value. Um, and then you you start to see little things like one time a student was always getting selected. She was just always getting voted. She said, "You know what? I would like someone else to take." And so we get the results and as teachers we kind of say maybe not the top. Um yeah and I think that when we think about these guardian values um you know some of the things that we do when we recognize that your student got recognized this morning check in with them when they get home they show that certificate to you and I think too when kids know that they're getting recognized for for good choices they're making they don't make the choices like that student made last last year if They don't feel our

099goodness, you know. >> We also post it on social media every month and so I did tell them that I said, you know, something I'm going to take. >> One of the other things we do is kind of helps with our attendance and our prior values is Kathy's been doing these videos for the last two years on the front entry TV. The TV's in the cafeteria and the cafeteria, >> you know, like TV. >> No, it's not. Sadly, it's not >> we have lunch and that's the day to go and eat lunch with um they get to see who's up that week and the biggest part. >> So, we get to put the kids pictures up for them to see. I try to pull them and change them about every Tuesday and then we pull

100them from everywhere from field studies from field trips. We had them from school being on recess anywhere I can get pictures. I just >> Yeah. So one of the things that we really recognize is our age group loves not just telling about their work within the school but also outside of the school. Right. And so we had a student last year who was big into racing and instead of him bringing in his winners trophy, he's able to pictures or we have a team who wins something over the weekend and they get to uh instead of bringing in a trophy, they send us a team photo. We're able to put that in. >> Um so those things really do matter to kids and they're able to see what's going on. When we thought about a few

101weeks back if I would have shown their video, they would send us an email. would have been of, you know, the school forest and they got to see what the different grand did and how much trees were planted from when the third when the fifth graders went versus the last. So, um there's just a lot of conversations and then just highlights so they can kind of see our community, our school families and just just pictures enticed by what's going on in the schools. Uh we talked about registration so they could find out where they could come to school. >> You know I was thinking special needs regarding how to get involved with that. >> I love the way you guys are because my oldest was and communication opening it up. It's just another avenue to

102keep things kind. >> Um so it is on the website but we anyone fills out the fun >> gets um and I was having trouble getting just the way that my husband and my work schedule he's more he's up really late like sometimes 3 to 4 in the morning working and I was always the one that was like a drop off and I had a kindergartener and I had a baby that I was nursing >> we're not No, no, no. I'm still in the car and she leaned me in my car and said, >> "Your son is never going to get a job or go to college or have a future. You cannot get me on." And I I was like I mean I actually still get like upset thinking about it. >> My son

103was upset. like I feel still knew that she was saying something very nice about it because I was upset and so this was years ago but but I really like >> my daughter works That's up to you. It's up to you. So I can share. I just want to make sure >> you guys >> Yeah, there were 300. >> I wanted to do those one of those camps up there. Yeah. Scott left. You're going to say, >> "Of course I had to." Of course. >> Personnel other cool words. >> The um >> set agenda. >> Say that like you always used to. Yes. Okay. >> Do you want me to be special again? >> Hey, when's the special? >> Uh not until October 2027. >> That's I can do this. >> What? Why? No, I

104was a little >> So last week aspect about not being >> having your same position >> graduate school. I felt like everyone left me. I actually went home. I was like I don't knowbody which is unfortunate in the hospital. We're all except >> I mean I don't really >> I don't have a lot of extra attit the old now he's back. >> I love you with me. >> Thank you very. And I actually am happy that you kind of kept us on the table because of I mean I thought it makes sense for the referendum. I mean, as long as most people were like everybody wanted to be on. >> Oh, well that's good. I don't know how I don't think as long as >> No, I think it's good because we were every all

105of them have something we're doing right now. >> Yeah. You don't have to catch. >> I was like I think I'd rather just for now and then >> and we can all go to video. >> Yeah. >> It makes me log out right before right before. Come on. So close. Sitting here the whole time. >> Okay. >> I saw last week. >> Okay. Wow. >> Awesome. Except that we know >> I'll make sure at the beginning I didn't expect >> but again we still got work. >> Yeah. They need to sign out and sign back in. Okay. >> Can I just tell people that >> Tyler, we're good. >> Okay. And we have no public. >> I think we are ready to continue. >> Yeah. So, Heather, I want to go back. First of all,

106two things. One, I want to thank everybody. Um, we let staff go after the gallery walk. We so appreciate it after a long day. >> Um, and then they sat through another presentation so they could do the gallery walk. Um, but just so appreciate them coming and spending their time with you. And um, for those obviously when you're watching on the YouTube screen, it it's hard to watch, but we we film it. It'll be up on our our website individually. Um, so we really appreciate that. I want to go back to a question that uh that was asked earlier about the survey. So, I went and grabbed this survey um to see if the referendum if the additional compensation was asked in addition or with >> and you referred to Scott's question. >> Yeah, the

107$5.98 million. >> So, um the first question was titled replacement referendum and talks about 5.8 $5.98 million per year would not increase mill rate um over current level based on current projections. Right. that all can but really we're not asking for anything more. It's the same. >> The question on staff um compensation is titled additional funding is how it's titled and then would you support a referendum that provides $675,000 each year on an ongoing basis to help make staff compensation more competitive. Approval of this would increase the district's property tax mill rate by point 26 cents representing approximately $26 per $100,000 property value. So it's in addition >> to the $5.98 million. That's what I thought. I wasn't quite sure. I didn't have it already in front of me. >> Yeah, that's great. >> But

108it was in addition. That's what we were talking about. Okay. >> Um so that's how it was worded in the survey that went out to everybody >> looking into it just saying I don't think so. Yeah. >> So, it's not right. >> It's much more professional. >> Well, thank you very much and um sorry I was late tonight and then thank you to Scott for covering for a little bit and we are going to do our consent agenda. So, we have our approval of minutes and we have our vouchers and we have a fundraiser request for the soccer team. And then we do not have any fundraiser reports. We have a field trip request for the baseball team. We have some committee recommendations for approval. The city and finance committee recommendations for property liability workers

109comp insurance proposals and athletic pass increase. Under other, we have um athletic equipment use for summer program request. Resignations, we do not have any um or sorry, retirements, we do not have any resignations. 18 to 21 yearear-old transition coordinator, high school physical education teacher, K through 12 PE department chair, senior class adviser, 4K early childhood teacher, 7th grade language arts, math and resource teacher, high school counselor, volunteer boy soccer coach, cheerleading volunteer adviser, primary school educational assistant, and middle school administrative assistant. Under co-curricular, we do not have anything. Um under our community program for crew we have um two lifeguard early AM and a crew instructor and a crew track volunteer. Under regular staff, we have high school's special education teacher, 18 to 21 year old transition coordinator, building and grounds maintenance, primary school principal,

110high school associate principal, long-term third grade substitute teacher, second grade teacher, first grade teacher, and administrative assistant to CNI and accounts payable and receptionist. Under personnel, we have some leave without pay request. And I believe that is it. Okay, I'll make a motion to approve consent agenda as presented um with addition of the approval of the resignation of Dawn Meyer as the MS administrative assistant. >> Second. >> Motion by Terry, second by Adam. Any more discussion? >> All in favor? >> I. >> Anyone opposed? Motion passes 6. And we're going to move on to administrative reports. And um Mr. Fzborn had to take off. So, we're going to start with Loa High School. >> All right. Thanks, Heather. Uh, first of all, um, we did have our prom. You can see that. Um, I just

111wanted to thank Morski and Mrs. Barlo. They are advisers from prom. Um, they dressed up as the main character from from Tangle. That was the theme, which the kids thought were were pretty great. So, they put a lot of time with >> all of our our prom court. Um, so I really appreciate their efforts. Uh there was a signing day for some of our student athletes. So congratulations to Kyle, Theo, and Nathan. Um going to Oaklair, uh Wisconsin Lutheran College, and Carol College, and their parents were there for a photo op. Lots of friends and family. I appreciate them not just taking their athletic abilities to the next level, but also their academic abilities as well. Um next we have senior information. I just wanted to mention to the board graduation. I I I think

112I sent an invitation to you uh for you to be there for our commencement ceremony, which is Sunday, May 31st at 1:00 in Mod Stadium. And again, we we've done pretty well keeping that outside and hopefully that'll continue. >> I just knocked them wood, so it'll be okay. Um celebrations, LHS fine arts night. I did want to recom or did want to thank all of the adviserss that are involved in that. You can see their names there. There's a lot of things that they have to do in order for our students to succeed. And then obviously the student success they do an amazing job in the different things that we recognize that night. Also state soul ensemble congratulations to the performance selected to receive the 2026 exemplary performance recognition awards. One of them is Emily

113Tenbarge. So also mixed vocal jazz ensemble and mixed contemporary ac capella. So our breakfast club and v jazz congratulations to them. you can see our students of the month uh that we list every every month and those kids are awesome. Um we did have our jobs fair. Thank you to the 22 businesses that showed up. They did a really good job. They only had great things to say about our students and staff uh which I think is is wonderful and they always find uh people to work or students to work during the summer and our students are able to find jobs. Um moving on in a classroom you can see three three classes that I featured this month. I'm not going to go over those things but make sure you take a look at them.

114Um lots of great things that are happening in different areas of the building. I did want to find um mention financial literacy and the jump start team teach which I want to thank Miss Fender for allowing them to come over and work with your students. Um and then you can see the advocate videos um the most recent one that came out in May. Um and then teacher appreciation week or staff appreciation week. I just wanted to recognize our office staff for all the things that they do to appreciate our staff. And those are some of the days on some of the things that we celebrated including Monday, May the 4th. May the 4th be with your enjoy a Star Wars uh decorated cupcake. So, um our FFA students graded those cupcakes and I ordered some

115Star Wars themed toppers. So, anyways, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Uh curriculum. >> Yeah. First of all, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, each building will be doing lessons or celebrations in some capacity. And um this also is in alignment with Wisconsin Act 95. So you may be hearing a little bit about that. DPI will provide each district with a survey where they will get to submit and highlight the various things that they have done um to make sure that they're meeting this requirement. It's a wonderful thing that we get to do. celebrating. Um, next we have showcasing advanced learner opportunities in LOI. We have a variety of advanced learner opportunities in LOI that we our students get the opportunity to participate in. Um, this is just

116one of them as we partner with the both the Dayne County Advanced Learner Network and the Columbia County Advanced Learner Network. uh the math meet. We hosted uh actually two math meets, a fifth and sixth grade math meet, regional math meet and a seventh and eighth grade regional math meet. And so you can see uh from the pictures there, we actually hosted it on the stage in the performing arts center, which was a wonderful venue. Just want to thank um our high school students who helped to grade uh some of the quizzes, quiz sheets that were coming in for this. Um, and a big thank you to our middle school educators uh, and especially to Emily Perzboard who put in countless hours getting uh, everything ready to host these events. It was a lot of

117work, but it was it was really awesome. And then lastly, um I just wanted to highlight I've been finishing up my educator effectiveness evaluation or observations uh here at the end of the school year and I've had the opportunity to spend some time at both the middle school and high school and I've highlighted just some of the wonderful things that I've been able to see here. you know, it always it's a highlight for me of um sometimes there are really unique things that educators that are are doing that are not only great in their classroom, but really they can be great in any classroom. And so I got some wonderful ideas from those observations that I know Adrian and I have been touching based on that we're looking at possibly bringing into like a w

118a wider staff PD sessions for next school year. So that's always a highlight when I get to pull cool ideas out of teachers classrooms. Awesome. Thanks, Nick. Um, Elcat. >> Okay. So, Elcat attended the Loi Wellness Expo, which was held at the Loi Middle School on Saturday, April 18th. LCAT had a booth at the event and provided free medication lock boxes and lock bags to attendees to safely secure their medication. LCAD staff also engaged with attendees sharing information about ELCAD's role in the school and commu and the community and answering questions. It was a great event and well attended. Brian completed the not not on tobacco program with the student who requested support in quitting nicotine use. He will continue working with the student as a mentor to support their ongoing cessation journey. Thank you

119to the high school administration counseling staff for their collaboration and support through this process. Alcad promoted the LOI area drug takeback event held on LOI EMS build at the LOI LOI EMS building on um Saturday, April 25th. This event provided community members with the safe and responsible way to dispose of unwanted or expired medications. The total amount of medication collected will be reported in the June school board report. LCAT was interviewed by the Loai High School newspaper, The Advocate. This interview provided an opportunity for students to learn more about ELCAD, its staff, and the programs and events it supports. The prevention and response Columbia County Park Coalition held its annual award celebration this month. The Lodai School District was honored with the park changing lives and changing futures award. Park Collaboration Chairperson Monica Newman nominated

120the district in recognition of its long-standing role as fiscal agent and its continued support of park staff. Director of student services Adri Schrader accepted the award on behalf of the district. Thank you for your ongoing support of park and elcad. ELCAD is currently wrapping up school-based programming and preparing for several summer events including summer safety fair, duck the Wall Youth Art Expo and National Night Out, which now again I want to just say will be in Harmony Grove this year in the park because of road construction. Please stop by these events and see Brian and Sarah this summer. And also our hearts are with Sarah this evening. >> Thank you, Terry. Uh student services. >> Thank you. Um, so a big thank you to all of our teachers during teacher appreciation week last week. There's

121so many reasons to be thankful for them, but tonight I'd like to highlight some of the work that they're doing this spring. Um, teachers do so many things to help their students transition into the next school year, and they're working on those things already. So through collaboration and planning, our teachers prepare students for that next grade level, the next building, and all of the new opportunities that they are going to come into contact with. So, thank you um for all of our teachers, not only for all the other things they do, but all of the work that they do to successfully transition our students. Um, also a big thank you to um Janelle Civum. So, happy nurse appreciation um day to our district-wide school nurse, Janelle. Um thanks for her ability to manage the day-to-day

122health needs to ensure that our students are safe and healthy and ready to learn. Um, we also appreciate the way that Janelle sets up our staff to be successful with students. Um, she trains our staff members on student health needs and keeps them up to date on those changing health needs as they occur. Um, the district participated in Job Olympics. So, check out all of the pictures from Job Olympics event that was on April 23rd. Um students from Loi, Barabou, Sock and Reedsburg participated in the event and it allowed students to explore and identify their interest and promote confidence for employment. So you can see there all of the opportun opportunities that they had to experience some different jobs that they might be interested in in the future. Um thanks to Adora Billy, Michelle Poles,

123Renee Moldenhower, and Nora Mack for their participation in the job Olympics this year. And finally, into the in addition to the park award that um Terry just shared with us, um we also received a letter from Senator Tammy Baldwin um about that as well. So, please take a look at the letter that's included here. >> Awesome. Thanks, Adria. >> Um Lai Primary School. >> Good evening. So, um just want to highlight for pillar one right now we're um in our assessment window. So, we had completed the reading readiness screeners um a couple weeks ago based on the deadlines that we have for ACT 20. Um but right now we're working on our I Ready assessments. So, looking kind of at the big picture of how students are performing and that information will just coincide with

124those uh reading readiness screeners just really to see where our performance is and also how we can see how we're doing on our scorecard. Um Joe talked a little bit about the financial literacy teen teaching. It was such a great opportunity for our kids to come and like have an opportunity for the high school students to share about money and just a general sense of wants and needs. I think Nikki had highlighted something about um >> uh a necessity of was it for what was it you had to share? Sorry. Yes. Do you mind sharing? >> Yeah. So, I was in the kindergarten classroom. They were talking about wants versus needs and they were the differentiator was ice cream or toilet paper. Oh, >> teacher goes, "Is is toilet paper a a or is ice

125cream a want or a need?" And so they would sit there and they're like, "That's a need." >> So, we're going to continue to work on those things and have them. It was just it was a really it was really an exciting day and I think just again being so close to the high school have them come in and share that it was it was it was awesome. Um we already highlighted about uh during our gallery walk about the school forest and strive with pride. Um we did install our playground that Sarah u Mrs. Sarah Halen had earned from her Herb Cole fellowship the following year or excuse me previous year. Uh but you can see the added structure that was um in addition to Heritage Park. The kids have really been enjoying all of

126that. And then uh last week was teacher and staff appreciation and we had different things all week for our staff but um just incredibly grateful to the primary school staff and so it's an opportunity for me to to share them with them. So just wanted to like that. >> Awesome. Thanks Amy. >> Yeah. >> Um our student report. >> Yeah. So first I'll touch on something that will happen. So um SAPS club has introduced a new event that will take place on June 1st for the incoming freshmen. So, it's similar to the jobs fair, which we are all familiar with now, but instead with clubs. Um, so we hope to provide a fun and low stress environment for new high schoolers to learn about the clubs before the next school year starts. >> I think

127that is awesome. Fabulous idea. >> Emily, have each one of you invite one of those kids from a grade to come >> to at least one thing just for fun. >> They work at all. They're they're going to get um little sheets with they're going to fill out their name >> and they're going to have little boxes and whichever club that seems interesting, they're going to get about 15 slips. They can put in as many or as little as they want. >> Um we found that once the school year starts, it's like everybody's already kicking off the thing and you don't really know what's happening and where things are and like >> it's super overwhelming. So hopefully we'd conquer that by doing some stuff this year. Um and then >> we have something to look

128forward for next year. I would love to see I bet the numbers are going to go up. >> Yes, >> that's the goal. >> Yeah. >> um I'd also like to touch on a club that we don't usually talk about which is Interact Club. So the Interact Club has had a very busy school year. Um they volunteer at the Santa breakfast and the smell fry. They donate donated to micro financing organizations and learned about international schools and cultures um through numerous presentations um which is super fun. They hope to adopt a highway during the summer slashnext school year and continue spreading positivity in our community. So, um I'm going to have a shameless plug for some of the upcoming music events. Um so, the spring concert is this Thursday, um at 7 p.m. in the

129PAC. You can come and see all of the hard work put in by our two bands and our three choirs. This is a more formal event. This is your typical choirs and bands. Unlike on Saturday at 6 PM there's singing swing. Um this is a fundraiser for our music boosters. So they are able to support the music wing and all of the lovely things that we are able to do. Um so tickets can be purchased when you arrive. Um this is a studentled event. So we create our own acts and we MCE the event. The show runs for about two hours with a 20-minute intermission. Um, and unlike the spring concert, which is more formal choir and band music, it's full of jazz, pop, we have some dance this year and a capella. >> So,

130>> I went last year and it was it was it could be a $20 event, but thanks for being >> seriously. So, people could pay more if they'd like. We do >> snacks. you can buy snacks, >> buy $20 worth of >> during the intermission. They have a cookie booth, so you can go and get some snacks. Um, super fun event. Um, you can come to both, which is great. >> And when are they again? >> Oh >> Thursday at 7 p.m. and then sing and swing is Saturday at 6 p.m. >> Perfect. So there you go. >> Emily, can you say a few words about um last Friday night's music event? >> Yes. So, last Friday was Mad City Acappella. Mad City Acappella is a summit. It's non-competitive. Um, it's where we go to

131Oregon High School and other ac capella groups um show up and we have a fun night of performing for each other. Um, it's a public event, so a lot of people show up um from the neighboring communities. Um, and it's a really fun way for all of us to hear other a capella groups and kind of get to meet them. So, >> awesome. >> And that was at night or during the day. >> Um, it's after school. Um, so >> we take a bus after school to Oregon. Um, >> and I like the adults when they watch a capella and sit on their hands. The other students from the other schools cheer and clap along while people are singing a capella. And the ac capella group sounds I mean there's awesome right. They got two

132awards at states ensemble exemplary awards along with Emily. >> Um >> but when they all have microphones everybody >> Yeah. >> It is just so awesome. You can hear all the background. You can hear the soloist so much better. It's just it's really and all the groups and all the groups were awesome >> um from Sing and Swing. We will all be on mics. Yeah. >> So we get those cool effects >> this Saturday. We will. right here. Be there. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> Yeah, you don't have to drive all the way to or uh >> Yeah, right. Loai. >> It's right here. >> Fantastic. That's awesome. Thank you. Uh Loai Elementary and OSC. >> Yeah. Hello board. So, a couple things I wanted to highlight. Uh we ended up covering a lot about

133attendance um in our our gallery walk. The impact team wanted to focus on that and that was what I already had included in my board report. Um but then wanted to highlight fine arts night. Um we had recently a special thanks to Techlan Nimmo and Angela Roberts and Emma Se for all of their work. Um again we are so fortunate in the school of Loi for the support um that we get from the community but also for the work that educators do as you can see from the pictures there. Um it's not just a music performance. It's not just looking at art. The whole school is quite transferred transformed. Um and so that's always a fun night. Um lots of connections with families. Um and very interactive. Um, and then the school forest. Uh, we

134talked a little bit earlier about this. Um, but I will tell you there's not a better um feeling as a principal to see one of your educators not just out in the school forest, but even in the classroom. Um, just just knowing that they are proud of the work they're doing. And um, so I think that picture encompass encompasses a lot of what Mr. McNeel thought that week. But um, special thanks to him and Cody Anderson for all of their work. Uh students loved it. Um as you can see by the pictures, Stride with Pride was also that same day for us and so we had a very busy day, but it was a fun-filled day of a loai pride and special thanks to the the parent group um Tessa Carl especially for all the

135work that she did um organizing that and the team of volunteers to make that event go. Um and then also for the community members that showed up to support. Uh so you see um Susie the duck there and the blue devil and it is just um our partners with Kobustan. Um also fire and police were there and the county um was there as well. And then project night happened this last week. So it's been a busy time. Um but thank you those of you who were able to come out and see project night. Students did great. We had amazing weather. Um and it's just again so nice to see students taking ownership of their learning. Um, and then them being those experts. Um, there was a fly fisher woman uh student who I could have

136learned from all day. I definitely way better than me. Um, and then um a special thanks to the middle school crew. Um, we obviously would love to keep our fifth graders forever um but that's not how it works. And um Derek and Pete and Mike and Leslie and Dawn do a great job setting up that transition. We had um along with our fifth grade and OC staff days where the fifth graders went over and got to see the middle school and get a presentation. They're also practicing locks um and currently um and different things that we do to just set them up. And then we do have our fifth grade graduations happening on May 28th. So >> awesome. Thank you. Um and our district administrator report. >> Yeah. Thank you, Heather. Um my first uh

137item is is sad news. Our district suffered a significant loss this weekend um when Dan Mcchznney, an educational assistant for the middle school, passed away this weekend. It was a difficult day for our students uh the middle school, I'm sorry, a difficult day for our students and staff across the district. I so appreciate the work of the middle school staff while grieving the loss of a friend and a colleague. They were there for our middle school students who also needed the routines and structures that day had to offer. um as well as uh our student student services staff from across the district who were at the middle school. Um and then also the work that was done for our students at the high school who also were connected uh to this individual as well. Um

138as Terry referenced a little bit earlier, Dan's wife Sarah works here in our district office and is an instrumental part of Elcad and Park. So our thoughts are with her and her family tonight. I'm really grateful for the work that Derek Perzborn and Edger Shreder did in working to develop plans and support for students and staff here uh in the district over this weekend and put them in place today so kids felt supported. So um a great loss to our district and uh he will be greatly missed. Um and I you know our heart goes out to the whole uh staff and all the students that he works with. But the the the I guess the the the piece that gives you makes you feel better as though that we do have things in place

139to help support when these things do happen. Um we have a crisis plan that we follow. Um we we have staff in place and and are and know what to do. Um unfortunately we had to use that today. So uh other a couple other things I just want to focus on. Graduation is coming up May 31st at 1 p.m. at the high school. Um it's always a culminating event, not just for the school district, but also for the community. Uh it's clearly a great way to celebrate the accomplishments of our students. However, we often forget to acknowledge the graduation is a district-wide celebration of our students as well as our staff and all the work they have put in throughout the years uh to get our students to this point in their life. Thanks to

140everybody in the district for what they've done for our current students um and what they've done they're doing now or what they've done in previous years. um for and for those students who are graduating. Um it's also a celebration for our families of the love and support and guidance they've given to our graduates throughout the year. So, thank you so much in partnering with us and allowing us to partner with you and trusting us with your child and allowing us to educate them. Um the district will also be holding the end of the year, it's hard to believe again, gathering of the Loi High School on Thursday, June 4th. The morning will start off with a staff breakfast in high school commons. It will end in the performing arts center where we'll recognize staff for

141their years of service and recognize our retirees. Uh all board members are invited to attend that morning if you are able to help and participate in that event. So again it's the 4th of June Thursday. Um breakfast starts at 7:30 >> 7:30. Okay always does a very good job. >> Yes. >> That's very good. And then finally, uh just a short uh I was notified on Friday that school district loads recently notified we have been awarded a $8,000 energized education grant to support student learning connect to the district's upcoming solar energy project. This grant will fund uh interactive interactive solar displays in each school building using real solar panels, inverters, and related equipment so students can safely observe the solar how our solar systems function. Um each display will also include hopefully a monitor showing

142live data from each building solar array. So >> Oh, that's awesome. That's very cool. >> So, uh we were thrilled to get that grant. >> Thank you. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> School board president report. I would like to start by thanking my fellow board members for trusting me with the school board president role. Once again, I hope the board and community see the passion, dedication, and extreme gratefulness I have for this role. I cannot say thank you enough to the LOI community for giving me the opportunity to be on the LOI school board. You knew it was coming. Referendum talk. Survey results are in and the board will be discussing those results in detail. I want to thank all community members who took the survey and took the time to tell us what is

143important to you. As I've stated before, those results are going to be critical for our district on deciding what steps to take next. Please don't hesitate to look at our district's website to see the survey results for yourself. And speaking of being able to express yourself, I want to thank anyone who takes the time to contact us with thoughts, questions, concerns, and yes, we even want to hear if you are less than happy about something. We all know it's taking time out of your day and showing that you care about our students futures. As I said, May is here and I am still in shock. Yes, I know it has to do with being an emotional mess of having my baby graduate high school in just a few weeks. But to me, May has always

144been an emotional month as a parent of a student, no matter the age. Another chapter is about to close for your child. And with that comes the bittersweet feelings of a milestone along with the pride and happiness for your child. Parents, I also hope you feel pride for yourself and give yourself credit for being that support system and just simply loving your child so they were able to be their best. Coming from a mother that has had that May feeling for over two decades, I just want to say to parents and students to enjoy every moment. I know, I know you hear it all the time, but it truly does go so fast. I've been trying to explain that to my senior who has the worst case of senioritis in the Baron household ever. Enjoy

145and relish the moments because they will be over before you know it. It's bad. And it goes without saying, but teachers get a very similar feeling of pride for their students at this time of year, too. They get to witness year after year the growth that each students go through. Students and all staff that interact with our students, please remember that you are part of those accomplishments and growth that our students experience every year. Thank you for showing up day after day for our students. And I hope that same pride feeling gets extended to our community members as well. Obviously, with the school year coming to an end, the LOI high school graduation ceremony is right around the corner. As we all know, LOI is a close-knit community. So, everyone should feel proud and feel

146very much a part of our graduates accomplishments. Without our community support for our district, these graduates would not have all the opportunities and support to be wearing that graduation gown. Not only the financial support from our community, but being great role models, supportive community members, and being great examples of showing our youth that working together really can change the world. As Leo Olsen said tonight, >> yeah, >> the values and morals that they learned from examples in our community will reflect on how they go out into the world after their LOI school career. It really does take a village and I must say LOI is amazing at it. Thank you. >> Okay, I'm crying. >> Stop it. Sorry. Sorry. >> Okay, moving on to health insurance contribution. Yeah. So over the last uh several months,

147>> they'll get rid of our motion. >> Yeah. Yeah. This will take a whole different level of motion. A district insurance committee met uh five times to conduct a thorough review of our health insurance program for the upcoming 2627 plan year. The collaborative process involved reviewing market benchmarks, analyzing staff survey data, um which showed high satisfaction with our current providers, and evaluating 11.9% renewal increase from Dean. Um the committee decided to take this plan out to bid. Um, however, no alternative offers were received leading to the committee to focus on strategic design changes to mitigate costs. And I want to share that in talking to other area superintendents that is not unusual right now that people take things out to bid in health insurance and other people aren't bidding on it um because they can't

148be they say they can't be competitive. >> Oh my god. Um so uh the administration uh in conjunction with the insurance committee recommended a balanced approach to managing this increase. Specifically we uh proposed increasing the district's investment in health insurance by approximately $162,000 500$162,500 to help offset rising premiums. implementing a virtual health clinic at an annual cost of approximately $17,000 which would be free to staff and would uh staff who have who take the insurance just be staff who take the insurance and would not impact their deductibles or co-pays or district loss ratios which in the long run hopefully will help bring down our insurance costs. That's the plan for both. And then adjusting plan designs by adding post-deductible co-pays to our high deductible plans and increasing increasing our traditional plan deductibles by a thousand

149uh to $2,000 to help lower premium cost for staff in the district. Um our traditional plans already have co-pays so that couldn't be added where deductible plans those are added. So this total package represents 175 $179,500 increase in district support. um reflects a thoughtful effort to maintain competitive B benefits while grounding decisions in actual staff utilization data and financial stability. I would like to thank committee members and our consultants at USI for their dedication work and bringing this recommendation forward and I would recommend approval. >> So you've been having the discussions about healthcare for the last seven months. It started last November. It's a long discussion that's gone on for a long time. It probably started before then because that's when we actually started to meet and >> Yes. Well, thank you guys for all

150your work on these committees. >> I'll make a motion to move to approve the health insurance recommendation as presented. >> Second. >> Motion by Terry, second by Sarah Ramish. Any more discussion, questions? >> All in favor? >> I. Anyone opposed? Motion passes 6. >> And we're moving on to our staff handbook. >> Yeah. The board of education approves an updated staff handbook every year. So they need to approve the 26 27 uh staff handbook for the year. Attached to the agenda was an updated staff handbook and list of changes that were made to the handbook from last year. Um there are no real significant changes from last year this year. Just changes that updating language to make sure the handbook is more clear for staff and for the district. So we recommend approval. >> Before

151we do approval, can we get one more change the logo on the cover? Yes, we can change the local one to cover >> to the new local. Thank you. >> Absolutely. And we will also change the health insurance. >> Yes. >> Um amounts in there based on the discussion the last >> Okay. >> item. >> I make a motion to approve the 2627 staff handbook as presented. >> Second. >> Who's claiming it? >> Doesn't matter. >> All right. So motion by Adam and second by Sarah Ramish. Uh any more discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Anyone opposed? Motion passes 6. >> We have our middle school high school staff handbooks. >> Yeah. Uh very similarly uh they both uh have been uploaded. You can see the changes there. Um we just need to approve

152the 26 27 middle school and high school staff handbooks. We did the primary school, elementary, and OC ones last month. Um, I'm going to admit I don't know how this happened, but I just missed this part when I was looking over the agenda. So, I apologize. There is no major changes, though. >> No. >> Okay. Sorry. I >> I don't know. I guess I just said no. I'm not going to >> I'm like looking I'm like, well, how did I miss this? But >> I just want to make sure that I didn't there wasn't anything crazy going on. Okay. >> I make a motion to approve the revisions to the middle school and the high school staff handbooks. >> I'll second that. Motion by Adam, second by Sarah Rip. Any more discussion? All in favor?

153>> I. Anyone opposed? Motion passes 6. And then we have our parent student co-curricular handbook. >> Yeah, same deal. Um, just we need to update it. Um, actually the hard to say it, but the fall sports meeting is two weeks. >> Yes. >> Uh, I just got the email today about it. Um, so this needs to be ready for the fall sports meetings for me. >> Oh, no. You're still you can still come. >> Absolutely. >> So, I'd recommend approval. >> Is this the correct logo? >> Yes, that's the correct logo. >> Just checking. >> I I move to approve the revisions to the parent student co-curricular handbook. >> I'll second that. >> Motion by Adam, second by Terry. >> Any more discussion? All in favor? I. Motion passes. 6 and um no policy right

154here. >> No policy at all. >> Oh, we have a big donation. >> Another big donation. >> Go ahead, Adam. >> There's a donation of $1,500 from Oh, motion to accept with great gratitude the donation of $1,500 from the Dan Marquart Memorial Foundation for track team equipment. >> I'll second. Motion by Adams, second by Sarah Ramish. Any more discussion? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All in favor? >> I. >> Anyone opposed? And I've always said you better not oppose, but that's okay. >> Has anyone ever said no? >> I would not. >> Um motion passes 6. And we have our community or our committee reports. Cease five. >> Ce 5 meets this Thursday and then we'll meet again. So I have two reports for you now. >> Awesome. Thank you. And also, thank you

155for being our rep again. >> Sure. >> Um, our co-curricular items report. >> I've got that because Scott had to leave. Uh, baseball, the LOA baseball team is currently 12 and five with a conference record of 4-2. Conference wins have come against Wapon Lake Mills and two wins against Poet. Tonight, the team will celebrate senior night at their game against the Wisconsin Bells. They play conference opponent Columbus twice this week and will host Portage on Friday. The Lode softball team is currently 11 and six with a conference record of four and five. Conference wins have come against Columbus and Lake Mills. The team recently celebrated two milestones with SE senior Bailey Stark reaching 400 strikeouts and senior Belle Burroughs reaching 100 hits. >> The team will host Marshall tonight, head to Lakeside Lutheran on Tuesday,

156host Wisconsin Heights on Friday, and travel to Reedsburg on Saturday. That is a busy week for the softball ladies. The Lode girls soccer team is currently seven and five with a conference record of 4- one. Conference wins have come against Cambridge, Wisconsin Heights, Columbus, and Wapon. This past Friday night, the girls secured a huge three and three to one win over longtime rival River Valley. The team will travel to Lake Mills on Tuesday and Sak Prairie on Friday before hosting Lakeside Lutheran next Tuesday. The lacrosse co-op is currently 2-6 with a conference record of 1 and4. The team's lone conference win came in a 10 to4 victory over lacrosse central. The team hosted a game at Lodi Stadium last week. The team will head to Oregon tonight at Whan Academy and Whan Academy on Tuesday.

157Uh the Lodai track and field team has been hard at work over the past few weeks. This past Friday, the team participated in the participated in the Edertton invite. Michaela, is it >> do >> Thank you, took first in discus and second in shotput. Josie Strong took second in high jump. Riley Wilcox took second in pole vault. The boys 4x400 team of Will Burchcher, Brody Rip, Everett Clemens, and Benet Bennett Nyquist took second and Tyson Stir took third in Pvault. The team will travel to Belleville on Friday for their next invite. The Lode Golf team has had a busy last few weeks of competition. On April 28th, the team won the East Troy Invitational, finishing 11 strokes head ahead of the second place team. That's a lot. Fantastic. Uh on Saturday, May 2nd, the team

158participated in the MACC invite. The team took 17th out of 32 teams. The team heads to another conference mini meet today before the full conference meet next Tuesday. And the forensic team competed in the WISDA state festival, which became a virtual competition due to severe weather. The team earned 15 perfect scores at the event and the team earned the WISDA distinction in speech award placing them in the top 6 to 10% of schools in the state. >> Nice. >> That's awesome. >> Way to go. >> We got a lot going on. >> That was awesome. >> Yeah. Wow. >> Thank you. >> Um OC. >> Okay. What's the update? Advisors shared at the last meeting which happened on the 11th of May. Forward testing. No, wait. Today is the 11th. So, the last meeting was

159>> April. Anyway, so advisor shared forward testing is complete. This is a big lift especially for fourth graders and it it is a team effort organizing. Fine art night preparations were underway. They happened. That school is beautiful. Thank you. you our teachers and all everybody pushing towards project night which happened and was also a success and thank heavens for wonderful weather. Mr. Shunaman shared information about the author Jean re writing that right visited welcome back assembly students have been enjoying a variety of weather of at recess and the literacy curriculum up update on how magnetic literacy pilot is going and approved using it next year OSC fundraising food for fine arts night subs and pizza they're having a plant sale May 19th and those are all perennials right okay they're all lined up and growing

160going. I see. Working on lemonade stand preparations. Yay. OC scholarship board members Mary Klein and Jane Madrell will review applications shared that applicants write an essay about how they make a difference. Next OSC meeting is May 20th at 3:30. >> Awesome. And thank you for signing up for that again too. >> Yeah. >> Um our board committee reports personnel has not met since the last board meeting. curriculum is not met and policy has not met and that's because we had to do our reorganization meeting but facility and finance. >> So first on the agenda was the sustainability committee. So uh Michael Radoff one of our teachers at the high school wants to head up a committee. He did it as part of his PPG, correct? >> To create a committee on sustainability, which would mean

161>> a committee of staff, administrative people, uh people in the community, students, I would hope, and would get together and find ways to sustain which doesn't energy efficiency, changing the the grounds around here, like changing so we don't have to mow so much and things like that. all kinds of ways that that we as a board or administrators or parents or whatever can't think through or don't come up with ideas. This committee would come up with those ideas. >> Oh, that's cool. >> And then try to pursue them through the system, >> which as we know is a lot of work >> and then sorry, but we had the cutest presentation ever any >> manage that. >> So the buddy beach the buddy bench project. So, uh, Girl Scout Girl Scout Troop 8024. >> I

162mean, they those girls presented >> looked adorable. >> They actually had a phenomenal presentation with all of the details in there and everything covered and then they were just so cute. >> And then what they're >> and clearly there it got passed two to zero, right? Then there we didn't even we didn't even forward it to you guys. I'm sorry. We were going to and then I amended my motion and we said no we're just going to >> So what they're going to do is sorry the most important thing. >> Yeah. >> They're going to facilitate or make these benches that they can put at each of the schools and then if you're having a bad day or you're having a problem or you don't have enough friends, you go sit on this bench and

163that's a signal to the other students to come be your buddy. >> There used to be one over here when the garden was there. >> Well, >> there was one there. There's going to be a new one coming back. >> Well, now >> that's such a great idea some weird adult. >> I'm going to go sit on >> just this one. >> I did ask could I sit on the bench. >> Um, >> that's awesome. >> And then we talked about the athletic pass. >> Now I know why you didn't bring it to the full board. Sorry. Sucked >> it all. Yeah. >> Sucked it all in. >> Yeah. >> We talked about the athletic pass price increase which was in the content agenda. Um, we talked about a sing swing set donation signage request

164and so that the LOANUS club is going to donate $10,000, correct? >> For a new set of swing sets at the middle school >> and we should sign it. We should get them >> talk. We're No, no, no. We're going to It has to go through policy has to go through to make sure everything's okay. So, we're going to work that through the system. >> Doubling the swing sets, which are a huge which is very popular. So >> it's always the worst having to await your turn from swing. I remember going. >> So we the committee approved it >> um for the signage but then also we're going to need to have some conversation at the policy level like so we have something in in the future like what's lay that out. Yeah. >> So

165when does a signage get put in or when when do you what what level of donation gets that kind of signage? >> Okay. And we talked about because it had come up before in policy about you know naming and yes signage and all that. So we we >> did a thorough discussion >> be nice to have something to go back on the like we've always talked about. >> Perfect. >> I'm not done yet. Also on the agenda was property liability and workman's comp insurance. Thank you Jason for taking care of that and going out the bid and all that. >> And we approved that in the consent agenda. I had no idea how much stuff was in that >> insurance policy. I was just like >> that was a lot of work Jason did. >>

166A lot of work. Thank you. >> We We put you to work a lot. >> Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you. >> No, it's fine. >> Give him give us >> that was >> And then we had a long discussion about a school liaison officer and what is that? How does that function? How do we fund that? Can we fund that? We're going into referendum and what would be the benefits and the costs and pros and cons and all that. So, we had that long discussion, too. >> You guys are busy. >> We're always busy. >> It was all in one meeting. >> It was almost >> And it actually wasn't one of our longer meetings. >> No, actually was pretty short. Yeah. >> Good job, you guys. >> Like an hour. >> Well,

167thank you guys. >> Okay. You're welcome. >> All right. our future meetings. Our next regular school board meeting is Monday, June 8th at 5:30 close, 6:30 open session. Um, we do have a special board meeting May 27th at 6 o'clock. >> That's we're going to be talking about the survey results and start really stuff. So, we expect that to go till like 8 16 hours >> here or >> No, we'll do that at the high school. >> Okay. In the library. >> Okay. Because we get that. >> And then our curriculum committee meeting is going to be Tuesday, May 26. And our policy is Tuesday 26. We don't have times yet. Are we still working out times? >> Okay. I was gonna say there's no time on here, but I think curriculum curriculum and personnel

168is always at 4:30. Right. >> And policy and facility is at 6. >> Correct. >> So there you go. >> So I just made all the committee meetings. >> That's fine. So the personnel committee is um the middle school farewell is the same night. >> Okay. >> At 5 at 5:30. I think I need to be at the middle school farewell. >> Yes. >> Is that the 8:30? >> Yeah. >> Unless we could do it earlier. >> I can do it differently. >> There's two other board members >> or two board members. >> Yeah. The other the other two board members can be there. Yeah. >> Okay. >> What? >> All right. What was >> you just need? >> I just don't want to miss it. >> No, I know what it is cuz I

169wanted to go to personel. Oh, that's a personel. >> Okay. >> At the three of us. >> Is that you mean? >> Yeah. The three of us are >> personnel. >> Yeah. The personnel. So, you're going to be there, right? Because there we should make sure two are there. Okay. And then she can get caught up. Thank you. >> No, she needs to go. I just can't believe she's at old already. >> Personnel, it's 4:30. >> Me either. >> Okay. So, all of our and we actually did keep our committees the same because we have a referendum coming up and we've been working hard and we work very well together. So, we decided to leave them as is for the time being >> and we do not need to go into close session again. >>

170And I will make a motion to adjurnn. Have >> a second. >> Motion by Sarah Ramish, second by Adam. Any more discussion? All in favor? >> I motion passes 6. >> Thanks everybody.