001Thanks for being here. We're going to start with our taking positive steps of service award. >> Yeah. So, uh we have uh three businesses here. Every year the school district of Loi um nominates uh businesses for the Wisconsin Association of School Board's business honor role. And so this year we nominated three businesses. So I'm going to go through them in order and I'll have them stand up and take some pictures. Um the first one is Buchanan's mowing and maintenance. So our people from Buchanan's here. There they are. So the school district school nominated Buchanan's Millennium Maintenance for WB's business honor role. Joe Buchanan has partnered with the district on numerous projects over the years. Canons provide the district's mowing service and does a great job keeping the grounds looking great. Joe has also shared his
002expertise with the district when he notices landscape issues or concerns. He has allowed the district to borrow his equipment. Has always been very generous anytime he has and ends time work that he's done in the district. Some recent work Joe and his crew have done will be doing include new sidewalks for elementary school for playground landscaping to help with drainage at the elementary school and the high school, removal of old elementary school playground equipment and prep for the new playground equipment at the elementary school. Obviously, this was put in last spring. He did all this stuff already. Also, when the track project ended up being more expensive than was budgeted, Joe made sure that the throw area still got done. He donated his time and services to add the necessary cement and landscaping. We are
003very thankful for Joel shares his talents and expertise with us. We value his partnership as obviously cares about the school district and the students we serve. So you can come up too if you want. Congratulations. Um here's the taking positive steps service award that we give as a district. And then there is a certificate here and maintenance. I'm gonna make Joe take a picture with Heather. >> Oh, really? >> Yeah. And then >> we don't you volunteer, but we can give you 100 grand for all your work you do. >> Yeah, we'll give it to She deserves it. Anything you want to say? >> No, I just appreciate working with you guys. It's been a pleasure. >> Awesome. Thank you. We're going to have you take a picture in front of the Loi Pride. >>
004Let's give a round of applause for Joe. >> And Taffy does some of the works behind the scenes. We know. So, >> all right. The second business that was nominated, we were proud to nominate Kobuson busing uh for the WASB business on role. Kobuson has been an outstanding partner with the district going above and beyond to support our students and staff. The terminals manager and staff's commitment to student success is evident on their in their belief that every day is a fresh start, ensuring no student is labeled. The terminal manager regularly attends parent meetings, provides timely updates on student behavior, and communicates proactively to keep school operations running smoothly. Kobasan's dedication to collaboration and flexibility have been a tremendous asset. Whether it's adjusting schedules to avoid conflicts, offering weekly updates, or working creatively to re
005resolve issues, the terminal leadership in LOI consistently demonstrates a deep commitment to our students well-being. We are grateful for their partnership and the positive impact they have on the LOI school community. So, Christine, >> I can't do this. myself. This is >> this is part of my team. I have an amazing team. >> I'm very very lucky. >> What? Again, our floor is yours. What would you like to say Christine and the group and introduce people with you? >> Appreciate our partnership. This is Tom Quackenbos and Katie Turner, two of my dispatchers. I have one more. Um, my team is amazing, amazing bunch of professionals that really care about our district, really care about our kids. So, we're we are very very fortunate to have the partnership we have and I appreciate our district. All
006you guys are amazing. >> We're thankful for you as well. Um, again, here is your 100 grand bonus for you and your staff. >> Pretty sure Simon gets one as well. And we'll have take a picture uh in front of the pride. You can come up. Oh yeah, a little bit. >> Nice. >> Thank you everybody. Last but not least, uh, Loai Utilities. The school district of Loai was delighted to nominate Loai Utilities for the WASB business honor role. LOI Utilities have been an outstanding partner for our district, consistently demonstrating their commitment to our students and our community. Each year, Loai Utility visits our school bringing with them not only books for our students, but also invaluable educational experiences. They provide engaging presentations about the vital role of line workers, offering students unique glimpse through
007the essential profession. Students always enjoy the opportunity to see and interact with the equipment and and vehicles that Loi Utility brings, making learning about careers in the trade both tangible and exciting. LOI utilities dedication goes beyond those annual visits. They are a true partner, actively investing in our future of our students and fostering a strong connection between utility sector and our educational system. We are incredibly grateful for their continued support for working helping us getting um rebates and things of that nature working with us on energy efficiencies and their obvious care for the school district of Loi and the students we all serve. So, James Lincoln, >> thank you. >> You got to say, uh, we just appreciate the opportunity to, you know, partner with the schools and, uh, get the word out about the
008trades, even at all trades. >> Um, looking for linemen all the time, so more engaged, we can start early with the kindergarteners. Um Dave does a great job with present presenting to them. So uh we just appreciate the opportunities. >> Thank you. >> Here's your bonus. You can give it to some of the guys as well. >> There you go. Thank you again. Lot of utilities. So they join a list of of businesses that we have honored uh through the WASB honor role program um which includes pre-emergency planning Ryan Schmidt Enterprises Loi Veterinary Care Associated Bank here in Loai Loai Piggly Wiggly Loai Sausage Company etc psychotherapy center of Wanaki Loi Valley dental enshrining farm corn mason pumpkin we're so fortunate that we have all those partners um continuing and we have other partners as
009well so we are just very fortunate and really appreciate your partnership. So, thank you so much. >> You can stay, but you don't have Yes. Welcome to stay, but >> pretty exciting stuff. So, thank you guys. Appreciate all of you. >> The best is yet to come. >> Yeah, absolutely. >> See you later. Vince, Vince, there's no presentation tonight. Okay, >> great. So, moving on. We do not have any public input. And so, now we're going to move on to our consent agenda items. We have our approval of minutes. We have our vouchers, we have two fundraiser request, um music boosters, both for music boosters for sing and swing and then, uh the treat sales at the primary, elementary and OC middle and high school concerts. We do not have any fundraiser reports. We do
010not have any field trip request committee recommendations for approval. Um, our curriculum committee has our 2627 new course proposals and our Costa Rica exchange proposals. Under other, we have an early graduation request. Uh, we do not have any retirements. We do have um couple resignations, middle school, high school volunteer wrestling coach and a high school English teacher. Under co-curricular, we have a volunteer high school three volunteer high school wrestling coaches, two middle school assistant girls basketball coaches, a middle school heads head girls basketball coach, and a high school powerlifting adviser. Um, under crew we have um lifeguard and then we have a lifeguard am lifeguard wsi. Two of them. We have a volunteer swim coach. We have a crew volunteer and then we have a crew gym supervisor under regular staff. Come on. Long-term seventh
011grade math substitute teacher, distance education overload, and a long-term eighth grade special education substitute teacher. And under personnel. We have one leave without pay request or sorry two two files for that. >> I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> I'll second motion by Terry, second by Sarah Rip. Any more discussion? All in favor? >> I. Motion passes 5-0 and then we move on to our administrative reports and we are going to start. Oh, our student she did say she's >> our students not here tonight because uh musicals this week I'll talk about that but u musical is this weekend so they have their final week rehearsal. >> I want to say she made the most incredible student report thing here for us >> template >> she does very good at
012that >> she talked about real quick our exchange program, our FFA national convention, and then the musical, which is next weekend. >> No, this weekend. >> November 15th at 7, November 16th at 2, November 21st at 7, and November 22nd at 7:00. I already have my tickets. >> And Thursday at 1:00. It's for us old people. >> They put a magnifying glass in front of the I'm just kidding. >> I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Uh, our National Honor Society was this weekend. But that was her report. She does very well. So, and then um so now we're going to go on to Loa Elementary in OC. >> Hello. And birthday. >> Yes. Thank you. >> So, appreciate it. >> Um some of them might have told me. So, uh >> yeah, everybody's supposed to
013bring or grab some treats, by the way. Okay. I'm not taking all that home. So, everybody is not allowed to leave without bring without taking something. Sorry. Go on. >> So, just wanted to again bring up a couple different things that are going on in the building. First of all, our win structure. Um, as we finished our first round of assessments, there's a lot of planning that goes into our second round of win, which started recently, October 27th, I believe. Um, and we go into through Janu into January. Um, but there is the dates and kind of all that that encompasses. Um, I'm just so proud of staff for the work that they do, uh, for putting our students first and, um, thinking about what skills they need, um, and helping them build those skills.
014Um, obviously our overall universal instruction is just as important as this. Um, but this is how we fill in those gaps and help kids catch up. So, um, the other part is we had an all school recess, our second one recently, so we were able to, um, our certified staff covered our our all school recess so our support staff could have lunch together. Um, we do that the Thursdays before our collaboration days. Um, it's just a good opportunity for us to kind of break the script. Um, do something together as a building and people and staff to connect as well. So, um we had our costume parade. Um so, always a highlight getting to see families uh come out and like I tell students before they walk out, you're going to walk out to a
015crowd of people who don't just come for your concerts, don't just come for your sporting events, don't just come to hear how you're doing in school, but they also come to see your costumes. So, um pretty special community. Um and then uh parent teacher conferences were recently and just uh a big shout out and thank you to the PTO and parents for organizing meals for that. Um also last year we had started incorporating staff gatherings every month. And so these are some examples of what has happened so far. We have uh teams of staff that work together to um have a theme or different things each month um to help bring staff together in the building and enjoy some food. Um and then we've had a lot of safety um stuff going on in October.
016So we had our fire safety presentations. We also had our bus evacuation drill with Kobustan. We also had our Alice evacuation drill. And just thank you for our partners um with that to make sure that happens. And the other thing I want to highlight is that's not on there is Friday, December 5th is our winter concert. Um, and so, um, OSC 12:15, um, third grade 12:50, fourth grade 125, and fifth grade 2 o'clock. So, um, come see some awesome performances. Um, thank you. >> Thanks, Eric. Uh, Lai Middle School. >> All right. Good evening, board. Um, just want to highlight an eighth grade tech ed. Um, just students practicing their their skills with creativity, problem solving, craftsmanship, and engineering. Um they you can see some kids there working on the new wood lathes that are
017I think this is the second year that Mr. Shyra has used those. But then they had a bridge building contest as well. And Leighton Nolson said a new Loai Middle School record holding 53.8 pounds was an efficiency rating of 667.3 which I don't know what that means but Mr. Shy sent that to me so it's going in. >> So you read it. That's awesome. >> Um down to pillar two. Um, one thing that we've done the last couple years is we have um worked with creative marketing to create some LOI middle school gear. And the goal really is to create a sense of belonging around Loai Middle School. We don't have a lot of different programs with different shirts and things like that. So, we put these together um where families can order them, but
018we also purchase a bunch as a school and we hand them out as prizes for students um for student of the month. We have Pride Pass drawings and other celebrations that uh students can get t-shirts, but it just creates a sense of unity within our school. Um Disney's Descendants, uh we've talked about that already a little bit. Load Middle School is going to be joining uh going over to the high school on Thursday to watch the show. We're super excited to see this. um for students that really um can just be excited about. Number one, Descendants is a show a lot of our kids are familiar with, so they're excited, but it just shows them opportunities that they're going to have when they get into high school and really try to help them think about
019like what are some opportunities they want to be involved in uh as they transition there. >> Um sixth and seventh grade spent some time in the school forest working on some different activities. Um seventh grade um did a lot of different things. I know one of the things that they did was uh work on identifying different kinds of trees. um sixth grade, one of the things that they did is they create a map every year. Uh Mr. Walsh has them. They do a map unit in social studies and they go out and try to create a map of all the trails uh in the school forest. Uh middle school dance, I always like to mention that um because you haven't lived until you've seen a 100 middle schoolers doing the chaa slide. Um but we
020had our we had our fall dance on October 23rd. Um as always, it was great. Kids have a great time. Uh sixth graders really just own the dance floor. was super fun uh to see um innovative community connection. Uh we had our parent teachers conferences on October 16th and 28th and we had really great turnout and we appreciate all of our families because it takes like a village and um you know certainly our staff does a lot of work but we know that a lot of stuff happens at home. We know our community supports us. I also want to thank Stephanie Jollet because she organized a taco bar one night for our staff. So, it's just takes one thing off our our staff's plates when they don't have to think about what am I going
021to bring for supper for parent teachers conferences and they bring in food and it is delicious and everybody's happy. But I will tell you that I every time I walk through I eat another cookie. So, it's not a it's not good for me. Um, going on to pillar four district workforce. One of the things that we've been working on, um, teachers really are unbelievable people and want want everything to go perfect and sometimes we can lose sight of all the amazing things that we do and focus on that one student that we're struggling with um or that one thing that went wrong today. And so we're really focusing on this um this tale um about the good wolf and the bad wolf. And it's really about like we have this internal struggle inside of all
022of us. There's a good wolf and there's a bad wolf. And the one that wins is the one that you feed. And so over the over the course of this year, we've revisited this just to try to help calibrate because it's really easy to focus on the little things that bother us. It's really easy to focus on the one student that we're struggling with and to forget about all the great things that are happening. So, we're just trying to do trying to do that to help us focus on the positive aspects in our school and improve um you know, how our staff feels when they leave each day. Um welcome to the team. Uh Bill Turdau is going to step in. Um hopefully not too soon. Well, actually within a couple weeks uh for seventh
023grade math teacher Amy Meyer. Um Bill has tons of experience. He's actually more experienced than I am. So uh he's been a a math teacher, he's been a principal, he's been a superintendent, and he is an extremely passionate person about education. So he's coming back to uh run a seventh grade math class for us. So we're super excited to have him and I'm excited to learn from him. Um, and then on the pillar five, as Eric said, it is safety season. Uh, now, so we did our evacuation drill on October 20th. The weather was amazing. It's really nice to walk over in the morning when it's sunny and 45 and just and some teachers said like, "Hey, we should do that every day." And it was I would like to start the day like that.
024But um, no, it did it was really great. Um, when we were all over uh at the high school, then we uh had a quick conversation about just reminding that everybody has a role in school safety and the the people that are going to keep us the most safe are our students because they're the ones that are going to hear things. They're going to see things on social media and we really just um encourage them if there's issues that that they report things. And that's all for the middle school. >> Awesome. Thanks, Darren. Thank you. Uh high school. >> All right. Thanks, Heather. Um first of all uh FFA national convention took place last week. So I wanted to appreciate Conor Anderson for taking the students that you can see their names there. Um a
025highlight of the convention was Loi FFA chapter being recognized on stage in front of a lot of people. Uh as a three-star national chapter, this is the highest rating a chapter can receive. So congratulations to them. I know they do a ton of work. Uh Connor's very excited about the the kids that he's working with this year. So it was it was cool that they got that honor. um this the the bottom of this page and then the next page uh deals with recognizing some some of our students in in two different ways. First of all, in athletics, but then also in music. Um one of the things that we were able to do for all of those students, if you look at the bottom, it says drum line sendoffs. So for our tennis qualifiers,
026our cross country qualifiers, our WSMA state honors choir qualifiers. Um our percussionists were able to walk them around the school and celebrate the fact that they were are being honored this way. So, I thought that was really cool. So, you can read a little bit about them. One of the things about the WSMA state honors squad I think is really impressive is 1,500 kids apply to to be a part of that. Um, and we got five that that made it, which was great. Um, so I appreciate them. And then you can see the the students again for tennis and cross country that went to state. Um, our freshman Aubrey Shunnman placed 12th which was really impressive. So, um, Thailand, we finished Thailand. I just wanted to appreciate all the families that hosted. Um it is
027not an easy thing to do. Uh it takes a lot of your time. Um some people hosted more than one one student. Um so I appreciate everything that they did. And then obviously in our farewell uh ceremony um uh Dr. Browning was able to talk, our mayor was able to come. So I appreciate them uh being there for that. Uh you can see our students of the month. Um and then we have parent teacher conferences. We did hold our parent teacher conferences and I surveyed my staff and just so parents out there are listening to this. They love it when you come in. So they were they were surveyed in whether they provide or they prefer face to face uh phone or via Google meet and all of them want to see parents in front
028of them face to face. So we did have 54 um parents that came in and met with us face to face and you can see the other stamps there. >> Uh there's a new initiative from the WIA that you can see there and this is something that actually went out in the blue devil bulletin. It's called hear it, see it and report it. um basically designed to enhance sportsmanship and if someone sees someone in the crowd that's being very unsportsmanlike, they can report it. Um we are trying to do some things at our school to promote sportsmanship. We are actually Sue Meford, our athletic director, is taking nine students. We had 22 kids that wanted to go and we can only take nine to our 180 uh sportsmanship summit that's happening in Pointet on Wednesday.
029Um so it's some of our athletic leaders that are going to be going. Um, no seniors because we're kind of build trying to build for the future, but they'll be attending that on Wednesday. Um, you can see advice for parents from our special ed department. You can click on that link for the video. Um, I think Dr. Bryan will probably talk about this, but we know that Disney's Descendants is coming up and um, our students are very excited about this. Um, so I'm looking forward to it, too. You can see all of the performance dates and prices for tickets and then there's a link there if you want to buy tickets. We do have some holiday sales coming up and Patchwork Enterprise and our Blue Devil Manufacturing. The two dates, well, the one date is
030an in-person holiday sale, Wednesday, December 3rd. And if you've ever had an opportunity to come over and buy something from Patchwork, um it's great. You should you should try to do that. Uh they make some really good products. And then Blue Devil Manufacturing, you can see some of the the featured items that they have. Uh you can see the Advocate broadcast, which is our Halloween broadcast. Um it's 18 minutes long, so if you have the time, take a look at it. It was really, really well done. I was very impressed with it. Um, they did a great job. And then I do want to appreciate um our admin assistants in the office. Mr. Marshall and I probably wouldn't dress like this unless they >> they were willing to buy the things from Amazon that we
031would need and uh gently ask us to participate. So, this is us bringing the energy with our Gatorade costumes that we wore on Halloween. Um, the students really didn't want to make eye contact with us. So, I appreciate them for for um pushing the envelope a little bit and making us feel a little uncomfortable on behalf of the students. So, that's the high school. >> Thanks, Joe. >> No problem. >> Uh curriculum. >> Uh this first one's sometimes it's easy forget because this is just kind of how we do business now in the school district of Loi, but we continue to facilitate community connection, business partnerships at every level of primary school, elementary, middle, and high school. And so you may see Facebook posts from our social media site that highlights some of these opportunities
032that our students have had along with the following poster which we give to each one of these individuals that they can play hang in their place of work. That's a thank you. And so uh Techla Nimmo, our K5 art teacher, creates that poster every year. So a big thank you to her. And uh if you if you watch our Facebook page, you're going to get continue to see uh those highlights of those opportunities that we have for kids. Um the next going on here. One of the course name changes that we have in the high school course handbook is it's the the name is being changed to better highlight for students this opportunity which I think is a really incredible opportunity in the school district of LOI where we have a course uh in the
033business department that really focuses on helping students earn an industry recognized certification in either Microsoft Office Specialist or QuickBooks. The great thing about earning that certification, it's it looks great on a resume. It gives you a skill that you can highlight when you're applying for a job. Um, it also when a student earns one of those certifications and they graduate, the Department of Workforce Development sends funding back to the district to reinvest in our programming. So, it's just a win-win for everybody. Um, I thought it was interesting and I wanted the board to have this. Every year the Department of Workforce Development has a list of approved industry recognized certifications that a district could offer within its system and I linked that there if you are interested in we recently started to have the conversation
034too about um seeing if we can work in Adobe Photoshop. So we have all the program already in place uh for that. It's just something that we would have to articulate within our system and provide the educator training on. We continue to have these conversations about um not only do we help students, you know, have access to things like AP or dual credit, but also industry uh certifications and work apprenticeships and all those things. And that brings me my next piece, which we're trying to better articulate that within our course handbook. This is a one-pager that we've introduced to the uh course handbook at the high school that helps families that put put things like that on the on the famil family's radar earlier on. Uh after that on October 23rd, we provided an opportunity
035for all freshmen to take a practice preac test here this fall before they will take the state exam pret. And then also we provided an opportunity for all juniors to take a fulllength practice ACT test before they take the full length uh real ACT in the spring. Um they get the results through a digital program where they can go in and they can look at each test question. They can look at their response and what the correct response was. Um and Mrs. Kernney at the high school will be meeting with each of those students who took the test to walk them through their digital portfolio so they know exactly how to do that so they can use that to help prepare in the spring. Also, this past Friday in an aggregate format, all of our
036educators at the high school went through and looked at all the results and started to uh identify areas where we're seeing great results and also areas where we think we could invest a little more instructional time to bolster some areas. Uh in terms of ACT also I want you to know that the department of public construction has has we've got information from both DPI and ACT the company that there are some enhancements that have been occurring to the ACT and the preac. And so I linked um some of those changes right there. So if you're interested in knowing a little bit about that you can go and take a look. >> Now it's going to be two days. >> Well so there's two things that are happening right now. So the pret and the ACT
037the subsections of the assessment change in some way. So like uh some sections of the assessment might be a little bit shorter and have a few reduced uh questions within there. So that's one of the changes that have happened. All of our pre all of our practice tests reflected those changes by the way. Okay. Um, and then the other one that we're discussing right now and our our internal team at the high school cons have considers that continues to have conversations about this. In September, DPI came out and they said, "Hey, you have the opportunity now as a district. We're we're always you traditionally have have had to give that full length ACT in one day, one sitting, right? We are now giving you the flexibility as a district that if you want to give
038it over the course of two days and it doesn't have to be backtoback days. It has to be within a certain window. you could like give it and then have four day break and then you know and then you'd have to do it again which is brand new information a lot for us to consider as far as well if you did take advantage of that option what would that look like for our systems and structure how we run the day right >> but also there's a potential where >> that could be really nice for some students who who struggle with the stamina to take a ACT and a full ACT in one day. >> There's also we're kind of thinking well >> so you have to bundle the three components of the ACT on day
039one. You have to do English reading and math day one and then you can split and do science and writing on the second day. And we were thinking well we could do some nice frontloading around what like the writing rubric leading up to that second day for students. There's a lot there's a lot to consider. Um we've been having ongoing conversations. We hope to come to the curriculum committee soon to have some of those discussions. And one of our next steps too is we want to bring in some students and especially now that they've done the practice and talk to them about it. >> So at this point though, when you take the real ACT, you're still going to do it in one long sitting. >> So we now have the option where we can
040split it into two. >> So every Okay. Yeah. >> Yes. >> As soon as this spring. >> As soon as the spring. >> Get that. >> But we didn't know that until September. We got a notification from DPI saying, "Hey, guess what? Surprise. You now have this option." >> Is there an idea on the table like that students, let's say you decided to split it over multiple days that people could take it in one day still if they wanted? Because I wonder there's some kids that might not like that anxiety of like having part of it one day and part another day. >> I just don't think we'd be able to facilitate both options within our system. The good thing is if if you ever wanted to take it on your own, you would be
041able to choose. >> That's true. True. Sure. That's a good point. That's true. >> And there is another option where you could take four parts and take writing the second day. So you can take science the same day as you would with reading. >> Interesting. >> Thank you. Appreciate it. I'm glad that we're getting more flexible in >> really makes a huge difference I think for some people to be successful that are really smart. But yeah, test taking can be what makes the difference between how you look on paper or not. >> And we have had some feedback, I think almost every year from the science department. It's always hard for them with the test being towards the end when kids are their section of the test towards the end where they're most more fatigued.
042>> Yeah. >> Thank you. Appreciate it. I'll just wait there. I was all excited. Okay. So, um Sarah attended a three-day substance use prevention skills training which focused on evidence-based prevention strategies for coalition to impact change at a community level. The training was held in Green Bay. The training was paid for by a grant from the Alliance for Wisconsin Youth AW. The YCAT trailer has been utilized for events involved um involving the school and community. This year from May 1st to November 1st, it was used for 18 different events. The trailer was put away for the year on November 1st and I think the homecoming day when they do that day of service, there was a group of kids that actually helped reorganize it and made it nice. I wanted them to come to my
043house. >> They were accommodating because I had the trailer that day football and they came there to clean it, which I was like, "Thank you. >> I didn't have a place a way to get it there." So, it was very accommodating. So, LCAT continues to work with our community partners at Columbia County Public Health to distribute Narcan. Narcan is a life-saving medication that can be administered to people who are experiencing an opioid overdose. LCAT recently provided the LOI Police Department with new Narcan as the old supply had expired. LCAT partners with nurse Janelle to provide Naran Naran in all of the school buildings within the district. LCAD is partnering with Reachout LOI to host a community Narcan training. This training will be held on Wednesday, November 12th. So that'll be this Wednesday from 10 to
04410:30. It's not long. It doesn't take long at reachout loi. This training will cover the signs and symptoms of an opiate overdose, how to respond to an opiate emergency, how to administer Narcan. If you want to be trained in Narcan but are unable to attend, please contact Brian Bilsy at the ELCAT office to schedule a time to be trained. LCAT's next meeting is on Wednesday, November 19th at 9:00 a.m. at the district office. Please join us as we discuss the pros and cons and possible locations for the 2026 um the LOI community national night out event because there's going to be um construction. >> Thank you. Road construction in front of um Gors Park. Rebecca Kerry, who is the Columbia County Veterans I mean Hotman Park, Columbia County Veteran Service Officer, will be doing a
045presentation on what resources are available on a county level for our area veterans. Everyone is welcome to attend. >> Thanks, Terry. Uh student services. >> Thanks, Heather. Um so I shared earlier this fall that LOI is in our fiveyear cycle for the procedural compliance self assessment this year. Um so there are four different phases of the self assessment and we've completed two of them so far. We've completed prepare and assess. Um during that assess phase we um assess ourselves in many different areas. So different parts of IEP paperwork, evaluation paperwork, students that are on a shortened day and also implementations of IEPs. Um overall during that phase, we have an overall compliance rate of 94%. So now we're in our correct phase. Um which means that we'll be working on correcting these errors that we
046found during the process. Um the special ed staff has also engaged in professional development during the October and November collaboration days so that we can address these areas that we need to continue to grow in. Um next I'd like to thank Okonnell Pharmacy and the part the partnership that our school district has with them. They have held four vaccine clinics here within the districts for us this fall. One in August and three in October. Um we had 84 people participate and 14 Three vaccines were given during those clinics. And a special shout out to Shelby, Lynette, Eric, and Holly for their partnership. They're often the ones that help us organize um nurses that come out to do the clinics as well. Um the district wellness committee has been at work focusing on financial wellness for
047our staff. Um we've held uh recent events um kind of over this last collaboration time and next week. So the first part of it was just providing staff with a lot of information that they can access um when they have time. So things like understanding the Wisconsin retirement system and budgeting and saving basics. Um these were a four-part series that staff are are able to access through recordings um from our WEA representative um Representative Kelly. Another part of that is that the committee is organizing complimentary individualized financial consultant meetings for staff. So starting I believe it's Wednesday of this week um there will be a consultant at each of our school buildings so that teachers can visit with those um member specialists um when it's convenient for them. WA also provides a floating sub to
048make this very convenient for teachers to access during the school day. >> Um lastly, I'd like to give a big shout out to Andy Rabino. Last week was National School Psychology Week and Andy is our one and only school psychologist in our school district. Um, this week's theme or this year's theme, sorry, was finding your path and it reflects the many ways that school psychologists help students, families, and school communities set and achieve their goals. So, a big thank you to Mrs. Rabino for all of her work throughout the district. >> Thank you so much. >> Um, last but not least, Leai Primary School. >> Good evening. Um, so similar to some of the other schools, we had our Halloween parade, which is always a celebration. And this year we had our first annual optional
049staff Halloween dress up. I think we had 98% of the staff participating, which was fabulous. You see some of those, uh, wonderful costumes there. Um, like Mr. Shinman had said with his school, uh, we just finished our universal screening and our started our round two of, um, our win time. Just like last year, UFly is our main intervention that we use during that time. and that's the um University of Florida Literacy Institute and it's really about focusing on explicit phonics instruction um for our students during that um our win time that we have. Um as far as for pillar two, I wanted to just highlight our mileage club. Um think about u movement and the importance of encouraging that for our students. This year we actually have this every Wednesday uh for the first and
050second grade and kindergarten recess. I have some assistants that are supporting this as well as our volunteers. Uh but just in a short period of time, you can see the success that that's been having. Um kids are really excited about that. Um Mr. Shun and I also did our um bullying prevention meeting with our families that was in October. Seems like a long time ago, but just highlighting that we had um two members or two parents join us that were at our last one and just kind of begin to brainstorm some of the things that we're going to do moving forward. But our plan is to hold two parent meetings uh one in the fall and again in the February. uh will share updates as well as have an opportunity to discuss and learn about
051crucial topics and so we want to share those out with families ahead of time so that they can come and prepare with us. Both of the individuals, Alex White and Colleen Foley talked about they would be welcome to kind of share this information to get more people involved with this. But you can see some potential topics we considered conflict resolution, peer pressure, how to act towards someone who has been mean to another student, transition strategies, stress and anxiety management, and difference of joking around versus teasing or mean comments. So, I'm looking forward to some of the opportunities we have with our families moving forward. >> I really like that. How to act towards someone who has been mean to another student. >> We teach it at a young age and I mean it does need
052things that we teach our students. So, thank you for that. >> Um and then the last one is just for district workforce. Um on Friday during our collaboration, we did our second reunification drill. This was our first time with all of our staff participating. So, um there are a lot of great things that went smoothly. And as anything, um our crisis team will be meeting to go through the things we want to adjust um and do moving forward. And also just a reminder, our Veterans Day program is tomorrow morning at 9:00 outside the primary. You can see all the flags. We asked our families and our staff to share names of um any personal family member that is a veteran. And so there's a flag in honor of those individuals. So that >> nice. >>
053Thank you so much. and our um district administrator report. >> Yeah, I was just going to echo this echo what you said. Uh what I invite everybody to the Veterans Day program tomorrow. Thanks so much for the primary school for putting that on. Um looking forward uh to seeing that and honoring our veterans in the community. It's always a great opportunity. It's awesome that we do it the way we do because it's just it's a different >> opportunity at each different level, right? What happens in the primary school is a little different than what happens at the elementary school, what happens middle school, what happens in the high school. It's just different. So, it's it's great that we rotate it through. It's awesome. Uh, I just want to thank the board for dedicating another evening
054this uh past week for a community engagement session as well as for those who participated in in the staff engagement sessions. For the third consecutive years, these gatherings have provided valuable opportunity to share information with the district uh and state level decisions and to hear directly from our community. I always hope for greater attendance. The participation of more than 20 community members this year was excellent and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive with attendees saying the session exceeded their expectations as I asked them as they walked out. Special thank you to Heather and Adam for their thoughtful preparation and presentation on behalf of the board and the district. Um as has been mentioned uh Descendants is this week um musical. I was told I was supposed to wear this today and I said I have a
055board meeting. I can't wear a t-shirt to a board meeting. So then I was instructed to wear a purple and a green tie because it matches. >> Oh, I wonder what >> right I'll let you figure out who told me how to do that and what you can figure that out yourself. >> U but the musical is this weekend. Um as Terry mentioned, the senior show is um this Thursday at 100 p.m. Uh so that's for all of our senior citizens and then the middle school attends as well. And then Saturday at 700 p.m., Sunday at at 2 and then Friday and Saturday next weekend. Um, ticket prices are $12 for adults, 10 for students, and eight for seniors. They can be bought online. We're looking forward to that. I know they've been working really
056hard, and that's where our board member is tonight. They've had some late nights. Um, just a reminder, a school district launched the community viability team, a group of community members, students, staff, business leaders, and local officials working together to plan for the future of our school and facilities. um guided by the board developed principles focused on accessibility, student opportunities, community needs, and long-term sustainability. The team meets monthly to review facilities and explore long range priorities. Um and hopefully we'll bring that back to the board in January or February. Uh the team will be meeting this week uh where they'll be starting to prioritize some of these areas and then also looking at cost estimates and potential tax impacts if they were do you know recommend um any of those things to move forward. So uh
057really jam-packed agenda uh this Wednesday. So we really appreciate those who are serving on that committee and appreciate uh Scott for serving as the board leaison. Um and speaking of other community group the strategic plan refresh is nearing its completion um after gathering surveys interview through surveys interviews and such um they will be coming and presenting at the next board meeting um and hopefully to recommend to you as a board a strategic plan refresh. Um, so looking forward to seeing all of their work um, come to fruition. Um, I think Eric mentioned we have, it's hard to believe, but several of our concerts will upcoming winter concerts will happen before our next board meeting. Right. So our 4K1 is December 4th at 5:30. Um, December 5th, elementary school and OSC, uh, they start 12:15 with
058OC and then go through there. Um the middle school concerts December 11th starting the six 6 pm with the band sixth grade band 6:30 with seventh eighth grade band and then 7 o'clock 7 eighth grade choir. Primary school uh will start it will is Friday the 12th starting at 12:20 and then the high school is December 16th at 700 p.m. And then finally as we talk about um winter concerts and we had snow this weekend, right? It's that time of year where the district has to keep an eye on the weather uh conditions to see how safely our students and staff can make it to and from school. The school district will be sending out a letter this week reminding our families our winter weather procedures. Um this letter will also share that we will
059be testing our winter weather notification system on Tuesday, November 18th at 10:00 a.m. So please uh remember that. As I said, read that letter um and know that next Tuesday at 10 a.m. you should be getting a notification from the district. If you don't and you'd like a notification from the district, please let us know. Reach out to us. Um make sure >> you said t next Tuesday. >> Tuesday the 18th, a week from tomorrow. So, let her go out later this week. So, everybody will get that. All families will get that and then we will test it next week. >> Thank you. >> Glad you do that. That's nice. Otherwise, you won't know and then you're like, "Oh, we get it." Right. So, it's nice that you do that. >> Uh, but we're trying
060to warn people because a lot of time when we do that, we also get a lot of calls that that day we'd send out the warning like, "Why'd you call us?" >> Um, all right. School board president reports. >> I I just wanted to I I apologize. This was in my board report. >> Yeah. So, the other thing we have I should have put them in, too. Uh, we have the state school accountability report cards will be released tomorrow officially. So, the board probably will be expecting, you should expect something later in the day tomorrow. Um, we will put information out to our families uh probably next week. We're going to take some time and put some things together and celebrate our report cards. >> Um, but that information will all become public. So, you'll
061see things in the paper probably tomorrow on a news tomorrow um about state accountability report cards and we will send something out to all our board members and then take other steps as well. Cool. Thank you. >> There has probably been a little more chitchat about our district recently. It's not surprising since we had our community engagement session last week. We have a referendum coming up. We have some pretty impactful decisions with our facilities coming up. And more specifically, there has been talk about our district's hiring, firing, resigning procedures for our coaches. It's completely understandable why this topic can be so important to so many. Our community members are invested in our children. Of course, that involves what our kids are learning and experience and experiencing in their classrooms, but it's also our kids' extracurriculars.
062And of course, that feeling is even more powerful if you are a parent. I as a mother know more than anyone that any every person that comes in contact with my children, teachers, administration, support staff, coaches, volunteers, everyone can make a difference slash have an impact on them. So when someone feels passionate, good or bad, about one of the employees of our district, they will usually make it well known as they should. I've only been on the LOI school board, so I don't know how other districts operate, but I'm pretty impressed with LOI system. We try to stay in our respective lanes when it comes to board, administration, staff, etc. But the nice thing about Loi is that although we have our own lanes, we still have communication and transparency between all lanes. So, even
063though the school board is not involved in the day-to-day duties of our district, we can still bring things up, call attention to something, and take action if needed. And because we can't be aware of everything happening in our district, we welcome people's comments, questions, concerns about anything in our district. While we as board members may not necessarily be able to change something, not always be aware of all the logistics, we welcome anyone to bring things up and we try to look into it or ask questions. Please don't ever hesitate. A few things that I have learned being on the school board are one, things usually take time to change. Two, it's usually not as simple as it seems. And three, everyone in our district truly wants what is best for our kids. And I've learned
064that it is beneficial to go back to the basics of the problem or the situation and look at our policies and procedures. That's what boards are all about, right? I'm all about transparency. So, I'm hoping for some great discussions and a thorough look over of our coach/advisor's expectations and our district's procedures. It's only fair to the people that are dedicating their time to our kids. And it's very important for our students and families to know, too. Being on a school board can make you feel a lot of different emotions. Personally, the emotions that I feel the most is being proud and so grateful to our community. LOI is such an amazing community to live in. We have the amazing benefits of being a close-knit small community while still offering our children so many opportunities that
065a lot of bigger communities/schools can offer. I hope that everyone in our community feels part of our district and always feels heard. I have told my kids their whole life that communication is so important in life and that goes for the same for our district. >> Thank you. All right, we're going to move on to our safety drill report. >> As required under act 143, each school must conduct a school safety drill, prepared evaluation report that is submitted to the board of education for review and approval. Um, you heard the principles talking about that safety drills that they were doing. Um, so the required evaluation reports have been submitted by all of our schools for the board review and approve. So I would recommend approval. I just had a real quick question for the primary
066school. Did Did it really take like 9:00 am and you're back in your classrooms by 1:15? Was it that thorough of a >> I didn't know if that was a typo or >> It said 45 minutes. >> Said 45 minutes. >> Well, it says there were no issues for the drill and students are back in the building by 1:15. >> That would not be correct. I will find a >> I was just I kind of assumed that. I was just like, "Wow, >> maybe that was lunch and recess." >> Well, that's what I didn't know, too. I'm like, "Maybe she was saying like, you know, they went to lunch and recess and then, you know, whatever." I was just >> just curious. >> Oops. In the drill description, then it's >> Oh, no. I will
067find the correct one and I will update you. It's not one. No, I know. >> I was like, "Wow, that's a fun day for >> I will go back and I will look at that and update you." Yes. Sorry about that. Thank you for the noticing that. >> No. Um, and then I was just curious too, the middle school obviously has like a different um >> I may have sent all the wrong ones >> format. Oh, >> well maybe >> when I was going through them that uh this is the training document. >> Oh, I see. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Otherwise, it looked great and I appreciate you guys doing that. I mean, that I'm sure it obviously disrupts the day, but so important that our kids feel like they know what they're doing
068if anything ever did happen. So, I appreciate it. Not to point out yucky things. I feel bad. >> I'm just curious. >> It was 9:35 was the time that they were all back. >> I'm like, everyone else was like, you know, half hour and I was like, oh, primary school. They just walk seveny old. >> Well, that's what I thought, too. I'm like, it's primary school. I'm sure it takes a little longer than that. >> Thank you for asking about that. >> No problem. And then Derek, you're you're going to get that right one in there. I take >> I sure will. >> Can you tell us how long yours took? >> How long ours took? Um, well, ours starts it started like 8:30 and we were back in the building around a little after
0699. >> Okay, that's impressive. Like everybody evacuates and comes back in too. >> Thank you guys. >> I'll make a motion to approve the building school safety drill evaluation reports as presented with a little fixing that uh Amy did and then put in the right. >> I'll second that. >> Motion by Terry, second by Teresa. Any more discussion? >> All in favor? >> I. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. 50-0. >> Moving on to our high school course catalog. >> Mr. Jelik has submitted the 2627 LOI high school course catalog. Hard to believe that we're talking about that, but we are. Uh, with the recommended changes, the administration is looking for approval. We recommend approval of the course catalog >> with the new additions of the new courses that you approved in consent agenda. >> Well, I'll
070make a motion to move to approve the 2026 2027 high school course catalog as prevent presented. >> A second. >> Motion by Terry, second by Scott. Any more discussion? >> All in favor? >> I. Anyone opposed? Motion passes 40 and we have a discussion about our co-curricular payment schedule. >> Yes. Currently the district processes payments for athletic coaches and co-curricular staff in a single lump sum sum following the conclusion of their respective season. This is common practice across many school districts and is based on two key two key operational efficiencies. on approval. It allows athletic director or administration to confirm that the coach has completed their entire assignment before approving the payment. Payroll efficiency. Since coaches and co-curricular staff are manually entered into the payroll system, processing a single payment significantly reduces the administrative burden
071on the business office and the business office in LOI has taken on several new initiatives like the mandatory TSA or TSAs, things of that nature. Um, so the facility finance committee had a discussion about this process at their October 16th meeting uh and move it to the full board for discussion but did not make a recommendation. So they wanted to have a discussion. >> Okay. >> Unfortunately, there's Scott is the only member of the civilian finance committee uh committee. >> We had a coach come up a number of months back and asked if this is that could be looked into. Right now, people have to wait until they fully complete a season before they get paid. And the question was, is there any way that we might be able to get paid halfway through the
072season and then >> at the end of the season, not an increased amount, just >> splitting what they would get at the end of the season so they can >> get some of the pay while they're doing it instead of waiting until the very end. So that's what prompted me to ask that this be placed on the agenda at the facility and finance which we discussed has been summarized and that it's here. Jason brought up some of the concerns that are brought up here. I said I understand but I'm still interested in having a full discussion because not minimizing what Jason is saying and understanding every >> hesitation. >> I still think it would be a nice thing to offer our staff. My thought would be they can either opt in for getting paid at
073the end of the season just as they've been doing or they would prefer they could have it split get paid half halfway through and rest at the end. >> I just think it' be a nice thing to do. >> What do other districts do? Do we know? I'm just curious. >> As far as I on the end, >> they did at the end of the season. And how many did you ask? >> I asked two. >> Two others. I'm curious, would it be do you think more work or more complicated to do the the model of like letting people opt in or opt out or would you rather like if there was a change would you rather have it just be >> I would rather have it all >> all or nothing because otherwise you're
074kind of like having to keep track of who Yeah. Do you have any other I mean this is very clear but anything else you would want to share about it with us to help us determine if it's like move forward >> you know one thing it's not exactly midseason we'd have to pick a date within this is you think like fall sports they all end at different times and this has been a payroll that occurs after every season's completed so it'sing dates you know, >> during season payment as you know, rephrasing it somewhat, >> but um I think it would add a day or two to that payroll >> if it occurs. >> And do we know other districts that do do it this way? And how do they do it to make it >>
075feasible? Terry, I'm not sure. >> Probably have the same problem that it takes two extra days. Yeah. Depends on the capacity of your business office. >> Pardon me. >> Depends on the capacity of your district office. >> I was going to say that's true. It's a bigger district wouldn't have a also this does seem like a lot of extra work for like some of these people are are getting $215, right? So it' be split into two payments. Is that right? >> So Scott, it's a it's a nice thought, but what made you think about it should be? >> I had a coach come up and ask me. >> Okay. actually not ask. >> Yeah. Demand. >> No, not demand. Just why can't we do this? >> That That wasn't on my radar until >> Oh,
076no. I mean, it isn't. Yeah. >> You're a board member, right? Actually, I am. >> And why can't we? Okay. >> So, I >> No, this is exactly what I was talking about in my report. >> Put it on the agenda, discussed. I guess like my my sense is that if this was like if there were positions that lasted the whole academic year, I could see maybe wanting to split it in two, but this is only like two months, right? Three months for >> Well, I don't I mean >> I don't think so. I think I think the winter sports >> can start in November. >> March. >> Okay. >> Yeah, that's they're the longest ones. >> Four months. Seems like a long time to work for no pay. >> Yeah, four months is a
077long time. >> You're thinking of >> I do get that, but this isn't I mean it's not like it's their job, you know, like I mean I know >> impact their job. I mean >> yeah over time or >> Well, you know what I'm saying though? It's not like >> to do it. >> Yes, I understand that but you know I'm saying it's not their >> second job if you will. >> Yeah. >> I mean I think if there wasn't any Obviously, if in a perfect world, absolutely be great. But my opinion is I probably don't want to make the business office do that. I mean, yes, I wish we could offer it, but >> you know, we can, but I'm saying is >> well, my thought is I just don't think that we I
078wouldn't want to do >> want to do it. So, we can. >> Yes. >> We can. I'm just saying my opinion is I would not rather have the district or the business office do that. If it if it was nothing for them, if they said absolutely, then yes, I'd be all for it. But >> um is this something that we need to make a motion on? And >> well, if it's on the agenda, so >> you sure can. You don't have to. It's like anything else in the agenda. You don't have to. Can I ask so if it's manually if they have to manually input it? >> I mean, isn't there a way to like input the person and say they get paid this much on this date and this much on this date? I
079mean, isn't there some kind of system? >> The the person's known in there. So, you you type in their name and the amount and you run through that entire co-curricular sheet and then you're double checking the other administration that yes indeed this person is still working and has actively completed currently has completed their task and fulfilled those requirements. Um the mid-season payment would be just confirming Nick you know >> Joe whoever whoever is associated with that co-curricular um that they're still actively fulfilling their their roles. >> I know we don't have this very often at all but what if so what is normal procedure if a coach ends up quitting mid-season. >> I know that >> it doesn't happen very often, but you would typically pay them then for the >> part of the season
080that they see it. Yeah. You'd prorate it depending on what happened. >> Yeah. >> And but typically you would prorrate it just like you would it's any other staff member who was leaving in the middle of the season. You still you probably still pay it at the end of the year at the end of the season was out. Okay. >> Then somebody else had stepped in and they would also be paid that other half. Then it's typically how it would be run. >> I've had advisors, especially with our exchange programs or an adviser will step away in the middle of the school year and then somebody else will pick it up and then we'll just figure that out >> on how many months they worked. And I propose that several times to the board. We've
081had exchange advisors changing in the middle of the year because that's a little trickier because sometimes you don't travel, sometimes you do, sometimes you know, sometimes we've done that times and there's been a couple coaches, but we've had that >> and the advisors, it's the same thing for like the exchange program. They're getting paid at the end. >> They get paid at the end of the year. >> Okay. >> And NHS advisor, leadership council advisors all get paid at the end of the year and they're working throughout the school. >> Yeah. And I wasn't It's not their job. I know, but I'm saying it's not typically it's not their main job. So, you know, obviously if you work for your your job, your nineto-ive job, and you have to work a whole year and not
082get paid, that's different. Or a whole, you know, when you're depending on that income. And obviously yes, this income is great for them and I appreciate their time and probably not majority are not getting paid what how much time they put into it as enough. But that would be my only thing is that I just don't know if it's worth our business office to put in more time when they're still getting the money. It's not like we're >> withholding. You know, that's just my thought. Make a motion that athletic coaches and co-curricular staff receive payment >> two installments throughout the course. >> Two installments >> during the respective >> season. >> Then we can put together when that is >> figure out the schedule >> timing of the two payments at the discretion of the
083administration and the business office. >> Do you think we could table this discussion to the next board meeting when we have the whole >> motion on the table? So second well no second >> if it doesn't get second >> doesn't get second >> for your discussion. >> I'll second it. >> Okay. So motion by Scott, second by Teresa. Is do we want more discussion? I just would like maybe to just hear from Jason a little bit more about what I mean you again it's not like this wasn't clear but what are the implications for your workload and are is there any possibility anyone else that works in the office would be able to assist you with this or is this all going to be on you to do >> the majority of the work is
084going to be done by Nicole Terrell our payroll specialist my role in this is checking her figures um >> so that's who >> primarily going to the specialist Nicole. >> Jason's trying to protect Nicole. He's not trying to protect himself. >> No, I No, I appreciate that. I was wasn't sure if there were other people involved with this than you. Um >> No, it's her doing the work and it's myself double checking those figures. She's primarily >> and again my thought is in a perfect world, yes, I would love to do that, but I also just trying to put the workload so much not on the business office, but I don't appreciate these coaches and advisers because believe me I do. Is any more discussion? >> I would suggest a roll call vote. >> Say
085yes. >> Yes. >> No. >> And I'm going to say no, too. So motion fails three to two. And I think they do great things too. I do too. I just don't know that the balance would make sense. And I lived on a once a month for a very long time and it was possible and it was my only job. So >> no. And I think it's a great discussion. >> I do it again. Okay. But great discussion and something that I wouldn't have even thought of either. So, I'm glad that we're bringing up and if and if Jason if it ever becomes like it could be easy, you let us know >> a new system or something then definitely find out from somebody that oh, we could do it this way. It really worked
086well. >> Okay. So, next we have our upcoming election. >> Yes. So, we have two seats up for election this uh spring. uh Sarah Reish and Adam Steinberg. Uh the two seats are at large seats for a three-year term. Any anybody interested in finding campaign paperwork can find the needed forms on our website. Uh no circulation nomination papers are needed for these positions. All paperwork from non-incumbents need to be filed by no later than Tuesday, January 6th, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. at the district office. Um we just always want to make sure we note that the district office is closed over the holidays. So, it's closed from December 24th through January 4th. So, uh if people are ever interested in running, they just want to make sure they know those time periods. >> We do
087that every year just to make sure people know who's up for election and >> thank you. >> And we do not have any policy reviews. >> And we have some gifts and donations. Lots. So, I'll I'll do this. Can I do the motion to accept? >> Yeah. I make the motion to accept with great gratitude the donation of $500 to LOI food service for students in need um from anonymous donor. A donation of $6,500 from the LOI wrestling club. A donation of $5,000 from the LOI Optimus Club. A donation of $2,500 from the LOI Booster Club. $1,000 donation from Lace to help for the wrestling mats in the elementary school wrestling room and a donation of $500 from the music boost boosters for the rolling carts to transport the >> ORF instruments through the district.
088We thank you so much. Those are it's just such a >> again how supported we can feel. Second >> motion by Terry, second by Scott. Any more discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Motion passes 5. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> And we have our committee reports. Um our CIS 5 rep is not here. Um co-curricular items and report. That's me. um co-curricular report. Uh on Saturday, October 18th, the cross country team participated in the Capitol Conference meet. The boys meet pl boys team placed third with Everick Clemens and Nolan Perzbborne earning first team all-conference honors. The girls team placed fifth fifth with Aubrey Sheneiman earning first team all conference. At the sectional meet, Everett Clemens finished eighth and Aubrey Shinnamman placed fifth, earning both of them a trip to the individual state
089championships. At the state cross country meet, Everett finished in 72nd place and Aubrey finished in 13th place. For tennis, we had three LOI tennis players advanced to this year's tournament held October 16th through the 18th in Madison. Eva Taylor was competitive in her first ma match, ultimately losing in two sets. Mara Lane and Nora Grl won their opening match in two sets before losing to the second seed in round two. The Lodai football team finished the season with an overall record of 72 and a conference record of 5-1. Lodai earned a number three seed and hosted number six Platville on Friday, October 24th. Loi was plagued by injury and lost a thrilling game by a final score of 3730 to wrap up their their season. And I will say at that game, I was seated
090at the top with the the the guy um >> the announcer >> announcer sitting right behind me. I swear every other word he was like, "I've never seen this before. I've never seen this before. I've never seen this before. It was a crazy game. >> It was wild at the end. >> Um, for soccer, the varsity boys soccer team finished the season with a regular season record of 512 and a conference record of 07. The team earned in a number 11 seed in the WIAA tournament and traveled to number six Winnebago Lutheran on Thursday, October 20 October 23rd with the first round of playoffs. The season came to an end in a 5-0 loss. The volleyball team finished the season with a regular season record of 1618 and a conference record of 4-6. The team
091earned a number number nine seed and headed to number eight Won in the first round of the playoffs on October Thursday, October 21st. Despite the first two games ending 2523, the Blue Devils season came to an end in three sets. The swim team wrapped up a strong season in the pool. The team won their final conference duel of the year over Stoton before finishing fourth and having numerous personal records set at the conference tournament. This past weekend, the team competed in the division one sectional meet. While no swimmers advanced to state, the 200 meter free relay team set a new school record. And under musical, which we've discussed a couple of times tonight, the cast, crew, and pit have been busy rehearsing for this year's production of the descendants the musical. Performance performances will be
092held in the Lodai High School performing arts center November 15, 16, 21st, and 22nd. The show will feature over 16 60 LHS students between the cast, crew, and orchestra. Tickets can be purchased in advance online. Sorry for all of my tongue twisters tonight, but um lots of lots going on and lots of really fantastic um things the kids are doing. Yes. Thank you. >> Um, our OSC report. >> Okay. So, um, OC met on Octo on October 15th. >> This is the OC update. So, Mr. Shounamman shared information about clear expectations and routines, the importance of connection, how they use instruction and assessment to help students learn, and next path student glimpse and life skills. the Aussie advisors. There's been ice age trailblazing activities. Painted drain stencils around the community. Learned about birding cameras with
093Leo Olsen from the high school. Collaborated on bluebird houses with Jim Men. Learned about bats. OSC fundraising. Uh Mrs. Hullman. Oh, there's a a bluebird house now right outside of the OC in the sensory garden. So, they'll be watching bluebirds and um keeping track. It's a learning activity. OSC fundraising. Mrs. Holman shared updates from fundraising meeting bingo event penny war future fall family event at try and farm and the discussion of shirt sales and online store. Next meeting is Wednesday, November 19th at 3:30. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> Um curriculum. >> Okay, so our curriculum committee met on Wednesday, October 22nd. Some of the things that we uh heard from or groups we heard from at that meeting were the um folks from the art department as well as the social social studies department. I
094just can't talk tonight. I don't know what my problem is. Um so uh during the art department presentation, actually my notes are not nearly as good as Nick's notes. So I'm just gonna go back to his notes because they're better. Um let me find the art department notes. Here we go. So, um Dwayne from the middle school came as well as Whitney from the high school. Some of the things that um were going well um there they have a very the high school level a positive well- behaved freshman class heavy senior enroll senior enrollment in extracurriculars. Um they've been doing a visiting artists program which sounded pretty cool. That was that's taking place through a grant. Um, this year's SLO is focusing on careers that use creative skills and Whitney I believe is planning to
095attend the national maybe is Whitney and students are attending the national art ed convention in March. >> Uh, just Whitney just professional development event to be attending. some of the future hopes um to explore the addition of an AP art course and also um she'd like to work towards an Adobe certification opportunity for students which my recollection is that Whitney needs to do some additional training herself and then could potentially work towards offering that to students. Um Dwayne reported from the middle school. Some of the things going well um they're focused on community connection and technological opportunities. Um they have been they received a private donation which provided um the school with Apple pencils and Procreate software. So the students have been using iPads for digital drawing instruction. And one thing I thought was really
096um fantastic at the meeting was they were talking both kind of amongst the Whitney and Dwayne were both sharing how um with the students at the middle school level doing this digital art that it's giving them a really nice foundation for being able to do this type of work at a deeper level at the high school at the high school level. So they're already in middle school like learning these really cool um skills. social studies department. Kelsey Barlo came to talk about that. Uh she reported on um I guess the fact the German trip went well. Some of the things that the department needs is to acquire a new AP psychology textbook. Um Nick will be acquiring a sample of a book for review for the the high school social studies department. Some of the
097successes was that it was noted that the district's AP pass rate was astronomical this year with all four high school social studies teachers teaching an AP course. At the middle school level, it was reported that there's uh good stability in staffing and a smooth adoption of the TCI curriculum in sixth grade which is robust. Um the third grade level is now um going to be reviewing the same curriculum. I mean, not at the same level, but this TCI curriculum for possible use for the third graders. Then we also had a presentation uh by Mr. Gelanik about the Costa Rica Exchange proposal. Um maybe I'll just sum this one up a little bit here. Um the Costa Rica Exchange will replace the current Spanish exchange program. Uh next year's trip will likely take pace in July.
098I was really impressed with uh the presentation itself and the fact that they have kind of a whole day-to-day itinerary already set up for this Costa R Cost Costa Rica project or a trip not project. Um they already have an ongoing positive relationship with the organization which is Costa Rica freely call Fina but it's Frea. Okay. And um uh in addition to that relationship which is already in place, there's also about um a $900 cost differential between Costa Rica and Spain. So that's another nice selling point um for that. And also the business department um came and well I should say um Mrs. Ziggler came not from like this business department in the district office business classes at the high school. to talk about um some new course proposals. One would be AP cyber security
099and the other one would be AP business with personal finance. Um the AP cyber security uh something that you know I guess makes that um attractive is that it isn't a rapidly growing career with high demand. Um Sue says she's equipped to teach it alongside a alongside AP computer programming. So, it wouldn't have to be an added course that I guess could be bundled, which is kind of cool. >> She's just she just has to go through the training and all the resource adoption, >> and she's enthusiastic about doing that. The AP business with personal finance would be a firstofind AP course focusing on workforce readiness and financial literacy skills for business. The class breakdown is heavily focused on business, finance, accounting, management, and strategy with only a small portion dedicated to personal savings and
100borrowing. Um, what else? I think I think that's Did I miss anything? My god, >> you guys are busy. >> That was a lot. I think that's kind of the gist. A lot. >> Yep. Thank you. >> Okay. Thanks. >> Uh, facility and finance. Who wants to take that? >> He doesn't have a choice. Oh, Scott has to. Yeah, I was thinking Theesa was still unless you want me. >> He doesn't have a choice. >> I was at the meeting, but >> I didn't have people. >> No, I was at the meeting, too. >> You want me to put anything together? >> I can. >> Yeah. I was going to say you guys can update us. I don't care. >> So, it started out with uh Amy and and Sarah Cahalen were there to talk
101about uh adding some a playground structure to the primary school. Sarah Halen was a coal fellowship winner and with that get $6,000 which she can use at school. So her and Amy have been together and that's what she would like to use it for and there's other monies that uh Amy had that was donated towards the playground. So they're going to look at adding later on structures when that was approved. >> Um we also had a meeting with >> the bulk of the meeting it was most majority of the time was spent on this presentation. I think this was the same group that worked with the students on some of the projects they're doing in the gym with the fans and the lighting. But essentially, it was a presentation about the schools going solar and
102>> putting solar panels on each of the schools and the district office. and then discussing the cost and potential savings and they showed us numbers and Jason is going to >> decipher the numbers and see how much of that was maybe sales talk and how much of that is real. >> He's going to help us be able to look at them and understand them. >> Well, and then the other part of it they had the first two things were things that we could already do >> to um like figure out where we're probably losing. >> Okay. >> And where we could >> And this is a SAS that did this. >> Well, they did work with them. >> It's that company that >> Okay, I see what you're saying. Okay. >> But what was interesting
103is that, you know, when you look at a little graph, um, we get charged by how we hit the top. You know, even if we're like here for the day and then it goes at a certain time and then, you know, we get charged for that. >> So, like how at that and you know maybe bring it down or figure it out so that you know it wouldn't have to be >> exactly what you get charged on. >> Okay. >> Figure out what's causing those peaks. >> Yeah. And try to >> and change them and that that's without solar panels. That's something different. >> Yeah. I think I also um appreciated the fact that um with the with okay the numbers were a little confusing but um I believe it's the end of or if
104it's the beginning or the end of 2027 there are federal grant funds that if the district wanted to pursue it those are going to sort of sunset out you know as an opportunity for the district. So if it's something that we want to take take into consideration and and perhaps do it makes sense financially to do it before that because then we would no longer receive that which it makes it a lot more financially feasible to do it that way. So >> tighter tax credit goes away at the end of 2020 >> tax credit. Thank you. >> 30% right. >> That's a big chunk of change. discussed the tennis courts. I went out and walked them and they're not exaggerating when they talk about the cracks and the condition. >> Every single to I'm not
105a tennis person, but to my eyes, every single court has big enough cracks that he was talking about how it could impact >> it affects the play probably. >> Neil had some companies that could basically do kind of a repair on the courts. This was a company or companies that had worked on the city courts and he was impressed by the job they did. How we left it was this is on the community viabilities team agenda also the tennis courts. So we were going to get some additional information at this upcoming meeting about take it all out and put all new in or repair. >> So that's where we left the tennis court discussion. >> Okay. >> More. Okay. >> So the rest of the meeting I'm jump in was really starting to talk about
106referendum. So making some decisions. we have to build a model when we start talking about operating referendum and there's some decisions that need to be made or that we need to base the model on. So there was a list of questions that the administration asked the committee to weigh in on um ranging from you know starting teacher salary to support staff market analysis um to healthc care premium contributions um health retirement account contributions. So the committee had discussions about all those different areas and and made right none of those are like set in stone. They just made recommendation that we can base a model on and then when we bring the model things can be added to or peeled out but it gives us a starting point to work with Barrett to bring a model
107um to the board and have further discussion on but we just needed a starting point. So that was why we had we invited personnel to come. >> Okay. We could have with the personnel and facility finance. it doesn't make sense to do it twice like let's just do it once and we invited personnel to come finance committee meeting so that's kind of where we're going >> is there really no FNF meeting in December >> uh do we have to make a decision about that >> or to be determined >> to be determined >> probably should have not met So, um, our future meeting future meetings, our next regular school boarding meeting is Monday, December 8th, uh, at 5:30 p.m. close session. 6:30 will be open. Curriculum committee is going to be Wednesday, November 19th at
1084:30. Our policy committee will be that same day, November 19th at 6. Personnel will be Tuesday, January 6 at 4:30. and our facility and finance at this point will be January 6 at 6, but there could be a December. >> Okay. >> And I do not believe we need to reconvene and to close. >> No. >> Um, so I just want to let the board know I stepped out for a minute. Um, we're dealing with a ventilation system thing up at the high school with musical and smoke and so I had to go out and deal with something. So not it had nothing to do with what's going on here. >> Okay. Not fire smoke but smoke. smoke from >> the musical production >> and ventilation and it's cold outside so the vent's working a
109little bit differently than it did the other night so make it sure >> we could address that so that's why I stepped out >> okay >> the CVT will be discussing >> some of those things >> performing arts center >> yes so anyhow >> on Wednesday >> that's why I stepped out >> and that meeting is this Wednesday >> that's this Wednesday yep this >> okay >> 6:30 Thanks for doing that, Scott. >> All right, I'll make a motion to adjurnn. >> I'll second. >> Motion by Terry, second by Sarah Rip. Any more discussion? >> All in favor? >> Anyone opposed? Motion passes 5-0. We are journ. Thank you everybody. Appreciate it.