001themselves and then quickly tell you exactly what they've done or are doing currently in SAPS. So, go ahead. Um, I'm JP Simpson. I'm in ninth grade and I'm currently working on the Blue Devil Bash, which is going to be like a lock in for the high school students of LOAC. I'm Bo RP. I'm a junior. I'm uh currently heading the uh English language arts tutoring program and we're up up and running. We had our first week of uh of tutoring last week, so that's cool. I'm Katherine Zek. I'm a senior and I'm helping with the language arts tutoring program. I'm Katie Schillian and I'm a senior and um I've created and implemented the math tutoring program. I've helped with the uh feminine hygiene products, getting dispensers, and then also um making the bathroom stalls larger.
002Uh I'm Tyler Overberling. I'm a senior, and I've been working on the Blue Devil sign that Mr. Jing mentioned, and then also just kind of helping out with everybody's projects. I'm Emily Tumbarge. I'm a sophomore and I've been I head the feminine hygiene products. I also co-presidented and helped with Katie's tutoring program and am a tutor and I'm helping with bathroom results. So I also want to acknowledge Adam Steinberg. Uh his guidance and expertise have made great kids even better. Um these students provide the energy and the ideas but like many positive initiatives that our students venture into there is a need for one adult to listen guide and motivate and that is Adam. So I really appreciate his efforts as well. So this is the sult are there a few that are not here
003there are a few. Um let me see here. Izzy Ripper, Lily Barnes, Addie Bell, Hayden Stru, Click could not make it. And then I just have one last question for the group. How or maybe Adam, how long has this club or group been together? Like when did it start? It was science club. Seven, eight years ago or something. And so when did it become SAPS? Yeah, two years ago. So this is the second year of it. Okay. Switched. You've done some great things. So, since we haven't paid you for your work, or can we pay you for your work? We're going to give you 100 grand for all your efforts and this suitable for framing certificate. So, Katherine Zasha, Emily, Tyler, is not here. Oh, here. I know it's in here, JP. Addie's not here.
004J. Yeah. Right. Anything else you guys want to say about [Laughter] So, we're going to take your picture. We're going to put you in front of the screen over there with the entire board. Let's do Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. No, I just don't get it over. for a second. Good job. [Applause] We have plenty of time. I think I should give to the students. [Laughter] We have one more award uh that we are going to give. Um this person um has been serving diligently on our school board for the last two years. Um so it is for Caleb Russell. So Caleb has been on our school board for two years. Uh not only won election, he won he's doing such a good job. They reelected him for a second term. Um he's been a valuable member
005of our board. We can always ask him questions. He does a great job with the again sharing student voice um when we're coming here at the at the board level and we so appreciate it especially with this busy schedule being able to be a part of all of this as well. So we are going to miss you but we uh know you are on to bigger and better things and uh keep us posted and all the great things you're going to do. So thank you [Applause] I know a lot of money. Thank you. That's the highlight. So, we're doing their present. We're going to do a gallery walk. We are doing the gallery walk. Okay. Okay. All right. Now, we get to do the gallery walk. Yeah. So, presentation. So, we have we're excited. We
006have staff from each building here uh to participate in a gallery walk. As a reminder, in the spring of 2021, the district engaged in a strategic planning process with the community. Um so, we had community members who represented all different areas in in our community um came to two events, shared their information. Um, and we took all that information and created the strategic plan, which the board here approved in July of 2021. Um, to implement the strategic plan, we've developed a scorecard model. Um, and really that's really a snapshot of what's going on. It's really like us going to the doctor. It's our vital signs, right? When we're looking at our scorecards, um, it's just making sure that, you know, is when you go to the doctor, it's checking your pulse, checking your heart rate,
007checking your weight, all those things. Um, that's what we do when we check our scorecards throughout the year and monitor the health of our district because we want to make sure we're catching things, but if things aren't going well, we want to catch it early. Um, just like when you go to the doctor and if things are going well, we want to keep doing those things. Um, so we really appreciate um people coming tonight. So, what we have done to make sure that we are as transparent as possible for the board and the community as we do a gallery walk. we have uh members of of each school come and share uh the work that they're doing on two of the pillars of strategic plan. So we're going to divide uh the board and the
008community members who are here and the students who are here into four different groups. Um and so if the staff want to go to their spots, their locations and they're going to go made it look like Mr. was fighting for us. And so we will divide up the court. Um [Music] you two want to start there. You two want to start at the high school. Start with middle school. Couple here. Join in. You guys can go with whatever group you want. [Music] We're going to the middle school. All right. So, if you're all ready, we're just going to do 10-minute rotation all we can start. Ready to start? Let's go. Y um welcome to the Lost Gallery Walk of Main. Um couple things I always try to highlight. This is some of what we believe
009people conversations and growth. Um there's a lot of words there. And then the pillars that we chose to focus on, we chose to focus on pillar one, preparing for our future and we kind of cheated a little bit. We had pillar two and pillar. Um the first part is really all about act 2020 took over our world a little bit last year. Um but currently definitely good things about it. Um you don't know much about it. as part of our keys are always there. So science early instruction is getting something that doesn't work for our kids. And so one of the things we're kids and catching this year is not materials. So we do what's called we are looking to state but we also have to report to parents every day what are some delivered
010and we are monitoring every and then the teacher training requirements and this was a big lift and our teachers and the district and that was to literacy training which didn't come with funding so the district didn't know where those and had to figure out how to fit that in the teachers time so that you know, we have designed a rubric. We didn't want to ask them to do what we're going to do in the school and that was like 40 hours fair. That's not right. Where we invite that schedule and the teachers did a really great job of rolling with it and then they will so impacts and goals. the intact or the goal improved reading proficiency, early intervention just again we want to touch those kids as early as possible. ELA is we just
011included this image because all the things on the left are things that kids need to become on the right until all of those things are together. um and then what we do in the diagnostic process. So when a student does not hit that 25th percentile or fluency, we have to dig deeper and figure out where are they getting, you know, like what is um hard for them. And so then we kind of go down and a lot of our kids that phonics. So making sure that we are supporting that phonics in their tier one instruction but also in their tier two small groups and really focus on the skill that those students need to build them up to the number and building that foundation. We don't have that foundation built you know going up on
012any of those other levels are going to help. So we talked about the training. This is a little snapshot of our schedule that started last March and we are finishing our last facilitated session on this Friday. Um so we um these are all the different modules online that we have done and these are all the other facilitated sessions. So after we have some learning we come together as a district with a facilitator and discuss how we apply that learning to our practice not just now but also going narrowed it down to a magnetic reading and then we create a lot of things. So this is one of the documents that we created this year um just to help teachers because not only did they have to you know do their keys training and then um
013you know kind of rework the win structure but then doing the screening assessments they had to learn the new system as web plus that was everybody this year how to get in set up groups all that. So we just kind of had to create supports um and the teachers with um adults in and we kind of had to live it in two ways because there are specific requirements. This is really a K3 requirement, but because we're overachievers in LO, uh we also have fourth and fifth grade teachers go through this training as well. And we also know it's just good for kids this practice and you can see that we also do some of the same assessments. I apologize for their requirements. What it was basically and it's going to be a building block. Um
014so speaking of assessments anyone anyone in our building this is the matrix of what's required for K through fifth third grade. So um you'll see like the earlier grades have more required screening tests and so grade three on the right side we have all vocabulary if you look at our numbers and one thing to notice about the oral reading fluency is it talks about few minutes but that's with each so it was really just amazing to see that our kids were feeling connections and actually I teach 4K so um my kids I have I had one that had zero and one that had this is kind of our flowchart and they they didn't even want to even look at me or the neighbor. What was really neat was that most of my four cars were
015surfing five or more because of our school families because but then what we did about it. So we have all that information and we didn't just want to go through um those steps without thinking about how do we put this into our practice. So these are some things obviously we provided families with resources. We talked about what homework looks like, knowing we're also getting fluency practice, um, and then trying to help families be able to help their child at home. These are just some pictures of our awesome students. Questions on act 20 before we move to the next We did do a following one or two. um has people the curriculum specialists that came down. So we had their school came down and we asked is this surprising to you or is this maybe a
016child that's really shy or maybe they didn't know how to take this found there's probably one or two students learned how to read we thought this was really important that we had found out because we connection really we're looking at find what it was and then most recently this is really exciting we had a student that was struggles um just this This is actually So what we're doing is we're giving these kids some naturally it show it as an adult two times. No, I'm not saying it's not. It's just I thought there was teachers and all different child because they got this connection. I feel like we uh it all came together like it's structured literacy now. So it's like we're pulling things the good things from the past 20 years but also bringing back
017the the good phonics piece right so all the good things and it's all based so it's really based in research so and they put some really good things to hold us anchor us there for a long time till two um so because fine arts really does both when you think about it uh we think about you know um opportunity to highlight different skills and celebrating those accomplishments right which is just about pillar 2 and then also our so you want to start um fine arts night is a thing that we host at the elementary school every year and it's an entire school collaboration so art teachers music pleasure and all the great actors work together to put on this event one night in the spring um I work closely with the music teacher to kind
018of like choose a theme and then we kind of let the classroom teachers And then they kind of tag along. So this year we did um I mean they did based on different animals. Um this year I decided to change it up. We did a glow-in-the-dark um art show. So in the little theater in black lights and each student created an art project with um and then we turn all the lights off and then And there's a video in here. But well, first, you know, being here the longest, that uh neon uh art show and the little theater was absolutely amazing. It was a highlight. [Music] Yeah. Sorry, I can turn it down. There was a line probably 60 70 people all the time wanting to go in there. Uh so then they let us
019know the theme and then uh each uh each grade level um kind of goes in a direction where they're doing some sort of research on an animal and then tying into a project and then their projects are displayed throughout either in their cubbies or down the hall. As a teacher, you're nurturing that whole job, the research, the writing, but then also getting the arts No problem. So, one of the things that I um really love about fine art is the fact that you talk about you want kids to have belonging and unity in a building and what we create is something that they all have a part of, right? like, "Oh, this is just this part. This together is one big like artwork." And it's pretty cool to see they're just as confident to go
020check out other areas as they are for you to check out their practice. Thank you for coming. Okay. Told me to sit down. [Music] Hello. Come on over. You can come closer. So, welcome um to the LE and OSC uh gallery walk. So, before each gallery walk, I just try to remind people a little bit about what we believe as our um learning environment. We're all about people, conversations, and growth. Um, we also know that, um, our learning environment is best used when we understand the value of partnership with families and our community. Um, and then we try to help students take ownership in their own. So, um, we kind of cheated a little bit. We're supposed to have two pillars. We have like 2.5. So, um, the first pillar though, um, is all about
021preparing for the future and our focus on our actual implementation. So, I'll turn over to Mrs. [Laughter] a lot to do. So, um instruction is just not allowing us to use something that we haven't used for a few years. um that doesn't really help kids read any more than just having a practice. Uh increased testing. We are required to screen students three times a year for K through third grade. We also screen our fourth and fifth graders. We always something that we want to make sure our fourth and fifth graders are learning um are being proficient readers as well. Um personal reading plans anybody who does notile oral will receive a personal reading plan. So that's something that we did have but we started with all students we are in communication with family constantly with
022that reporting requirements we required to report to the state but also to families every 10 weeks families get took that information about their students and we do track their students progress every day. So we're weekly just checking their and then the teacher training requirements. Um this was the big one that started last year. We started the keys to literacy training. Um and there were, you know, certain choices that the school district had. That's the one that we chose that would be our goals as a district time wise, budget wise because we didn't mandated, but we didn't get money to do this. The district had to pay for it. Had to find time for teachers to do it. Um if teachers doing it outside of their school days, they would have to pay for that too.
023So it's just something that we had to fit in. And so we started it last year. the admin team. I think it was good forward thinking that we started it last year, spread it out over the course of the year and we'll be finishing that up this Friday. So, a lot was a lot for our teachers. It was a lot for um just everybody that trained in the timese you'll see later we'll look at the schedule but it was 48 hours you know achieve that goal so this August we'll be doing the vendor fair and then in the spring so impacting goals the goal of act 20 is improve reading proficiency which is a great goal and we want all of our kids to be proficient readers and the early inter intervention part is that
024we're trying to screen and catch kids early so that we can get them to be proficient readers um as soon as possible. [Laughter] So we as um so this is Scarbo's reading robe and just everything on the left are the pieces that anybody who is learning to read needs in order to become a skilled reader skil reader which is what is on the right side of the rope. So all of those things are woven together and if you're missing a piece of that anything on the left it can impact your skill ability. So, um, I we have that in there because when we do screen kids to find out if they are struggling in reading fluency, we need to kind of dig deeper to see what skills are they lacking that is preventing them from
025becoming a skilled reader. So, this is sort of the step letter where we kind of write down and we dig a little deeper to see what they need more skilled instruction in. So we have this component and this is and then this is the schedule and so this is our actual training schedule that like Mrs. Ger mentioned we finish on Friday. Um but this is 48 I believe 48 and a half hours of module work and then also facilitated sessions that were facilitated by a trainer from CISA 5. So Donica has been our trainer. And so what we did is we didn't just do the learning part of keys. We then on the facilitated session time is when we get together as a K5 um group and we would look at okay how do we
026implement this? how do we actually use what we're learning in our practice, not just now, but then also going forward. And because we're overachievers, uh we don't just have even though it's required in K3, we also had our fourth and fifth grade teachers do this as well because we know that that just that impact for our students flying around. But it's exciting because I think you know in addition to like all of the other things um the act 20 really made us um learn some new things too. So in order to monitor our students progress and screen our students. um teachers had to be trained in the ASA plus system which talked about just like a computer based testing system that the district is included with act 20 but then we purchased it for fourth
027and fifth so we could learn so there's a lot of additional training that we wanted so just for helpers through that to get everybody on the same page so everybody's working the same committed they're like no we you know we do both of them because that strongly about this is all the different required measures. So you can see on the left, you know, 4K 51 has a few more, but as you go, they do continue with grade, but again, we also assess kids on reading fluency um in fourth and fifth as well. We just don't do the vocabulary piece. Um you see the two minutes for all reading fluency. That might not seem like much, but that's two minutes per child. So that's You're having them read a one minute passage at their grade level
028pictures from teachers vendor down through this is off of our the website I mentioned our act 20 website on the district page and it just talks about all the different things that we kind of had in word form and a flowchart so you can see how that works that they would have a connection with and what we asked them to do is kind of think and we didn't just take that information and be like oh that's we checked the box. We talked about how do we actually implement that into our practice and so these are some things that we did to try to help families as it was new for them too. So what is school and some kids who won't even circle no it's all good example she's like anybody you see in this
029line I don't know no but what it was it was so instead of saying hey let's go back and look at how word or sound it uh that had pictures that had zero but it was because it was a [Music] cont and that's something that kind of you know there was a somebody who came up with the system and sold it to everybody and it was amazing research but a lot of school districts across the she those are all people use those differently when they're reading but it's not how you should teach a kid there's so many different ways of doing that you know one of the things is that we're just trying to build and that's where I was going to say like let's the kid is feeling if they're struggling reader our goal
030is just vocabulary to them and just make them feel really giving them more resources and making them feel like so because we know that if they don't have the skills to do that. So instead we have to do that. Any other questions that I So I was sending email. Hey I said we have 2.5. So nurturing pillar two and a little bit of pillar three in here. Our fine arts night. Um we included this because um first of all it does really help with our belonging. Our school is a belonging um which is pillar two. And then also our family engagement which is really pillar three. Um Miss Zumo want to start off. Yeah. So, fine arts night is an event that we host in the spring and everyone in the school works together. So,
031I'm the art teacher. I work closely with music teacher. They pick a theme which animals. So, in the music room they're working on different songs. So, the students we tell teachers what the theme is as well. And so, they create tons of other art projects to kind of families. I changed things up a little bit this year and did a glow-in-the-dark art show. So, in the little theater, I had each kid from the school, so a little over 300 kids um make an art project with neon paint and then we put black lights on dark so you kind of walk through and they got to see that other art projects hanging up and then art projects from the classrooms as well. Yeah. And the theater was absolutely amazing. Uh, one of my most favorite things
032I've seen a long time. Parents loved it. Kids love taking me through. That was really It worked. It worked. That one was a little frustrating. The other one their work, but everybody's working going through. As classroom teachers, we get the theme and then we try to find a project and connect with that and doing the research writing using all that but then also bringing in some creativity again nurturing that whole that's also whole other it's an amazing night everybody coming together and the kids are pretty proud and sometimes you have to these are some of the themes that the classrooms uh each grade level team uh focused on and McNeil said we kind of transform our building and so whether it's in the cubby or in the hallway or by the classroom um this is
033kind of what it ends up looking like to see um really the kids feel like this is one piece of our building whether it's in the gym and music so and then of course graduation any question was like Mr. gave me this rotate. Thank you for graduation. Yeah. It was awesome. All right. Where do we go? I think I think we must go here. Yeah. Yes. See you later. [Laughter] I'm tired. You better thanks for coming over this way. Welcome um to the gallery walk. Luce go down the line. Say your name and what your role is. Barler specialist Katie reading specialist. Don Collins specialist. So we want to share a little bit about color and Eric Schman the principal. So um I always like to start off our gallery walk just kind of helping
034people know what we believe is our environment our learning environment and so we understand and believe and value people conversations and growth. We know that uh learning is super important but we also know that it is way better not done in isolation but in partnership. What we then did was take all that information and we also know that in order to do that we want to have a high level of support but also a high level of for our students and help them and then took um we kind of cheated a little bit. We have 2.5 pillars we're cover too. Okay. Um just too much good things to share. So they didn't actually admit it. Well, we're good job. We're being honest. So um pillar one, preparing for the future. We really focus on act
03520 implementation. It's been a big part of what we do. And so I'm going to turn over to Mrs. Greer with some help from Mrs. um to come and present. I just offered her. Okay. Um she's going to jump in. So this year and actually last year, Act 20 has sort of taken over our lives in a good way, but also like a challenging way. Um so last year um our staff staff school started the training portion there's been a lot of changes this year with it too. So just to go over the key provisions if you don't know much about act 20. So um science based lit lit early literacy instruction excuse me sorry. Um so act 20 mandates that schools use a curriculum that is science based and research based prohibits a practice
036that's called preq um increase their reading um personal reading plans were implemented this year so students who have not yet reached the personal early literature will receive a personal reading plan. Just basically that's us informing the parents. Here's what we're going to do for your child. Tier one, tier two, whatever that is. Um those are interventions. Um what skills are we going to work on and we are also going to monitor their progress weekly and report back every 10 years. So reporting requirements includes that 10 week report to parents also. Um that's in addition to three screeners per year. teacher training requirements is that training that I mentioned. We started last spring and we are finishing up this Friday. So um so that and that has been a lot of time and um a lot
037of work for our teachers. So we are very um just thankful she does thankful for the work of the whole there's going to be a celebration by the from the admin. So we've got them So um the goals improve reading proficiency for all of our students and then early intervention. So screening those kids early and then catching it early as possible. If you don't get a chance ever, you should check out the act 20 portion on our district website has a lot of really good information. Um kind of tells us tells you more about all of this. Um we included this image of scar wrote because it just like the visual. So all the things on the left are things that anybody needs to become a skilled reader, which is on the right. All of
038those things are woven together to become a skilled reader. And so if you're missing one of those pieces, you can't be a proficient skilled reader. So um just thinking about those when we go to the next image, when we screen students and they perform underneath the 25th percentile, we're thinking, okay, well, let's dig deeper and figure out what's going on. Why are they not learning too? So what part of that foundation are we missing? So we can't keep on building until we have a boundary. So that act 20 is actually a really thing that we would love. I was lucky enough to go to a literary that talks about kids. It wasn't that they were bad. This letter is really a good thing for us to see and it's um where all of us where
039all the teachers are now going and we are all taking different groups. Okay, these kids need phonics, these kids need fluency. We're each taking those kids that need those specific things and break those groups into those as well. So, for example, being That's great. Good job. Uh this is the schedule. So, like uh Katie had mentioned, Mrs. G mentioned, we finished this on Friday, but this is from last March 124 to May 16th down there. And so, these are the modules. So you can see the hours that we spent there on those modules of learning but then also after we had the modules of learning then we also had facilitated sessions I don't know we looked at okay we learned this information how do we put that into practice right how are we doing with
040that what do we need to adjust not just now but also going and so that was really helpful as well but altogether I think this was around 48 hours of of time that we spent. I don't know if their new will be called magnetic because it's going to um I'm going to take this one even though this has in the past. So, one of the things that got thrown at us is with act 20 is like, hey, yeah, great, but now we have to provide resources to staff to be able to do. And Katie probably mentioned this and I probably should take it from the beginning, but she did a lot of this to put things together to set stamp up for success. And so, like, okay, we're going to ask you to do this.
041Well, here's a video to know how to do how to get in. Here's a video so your kids know what it actually looks like. Here's the steps. And so this is um things that she helped create for staff to be able to actually give the assessment to students and know what to do about it afterwards. And not just to so you can access it, but so we can access it in a way that helps our custodian. I mean everybody in our school, every adult really good stuff, great work and also great work on our staff to just take something that we don't have a lot of time on and just jump into it and do it when we needed to for students and they went through this matrix of all the like oh like that
042person sure. Okay. For act 20 for certain things like this through but the district also purchased some license. So like I said we can continue screening those kids in fourth and fifth grade. So we're catching everybody tests and first grade we do at this age. Yeah. And I and I knowing the child I was like you have connections look at 2 minutes passages organization they do that three times. Um, also we forgot to mention because we are overachievers in LOI, we didn't just have our third third grade, we had our fourth and fifth grade teachers as well. Not just do the assessment but also do the training as well. That is so amazing. This is a visual from that website I mentioned on our our district website that just kind of shows our flowchart of
043how we are meeting the requirements of act 20 and helping our students um and knowing what they need. Well, it's um the other thing that we try to do here in the night information and we think about how does this impact our families and so we knew that hey fluency is not only just something maybe new for some of us um but it's also super new for our families and so we made some communication on how do I help my child at home what is fluency okay you're asking me to do some fluency work at home what does that replace with homework or does it not replace um so we just really tried to think about how to help set families up for success as wellies You know, I think that that's an adjustment for
044some and I think that most though like they've been really I mean we've been able to like hey like this is what you're doing and they just trust you and some great pictures. Oh, we don't do that. Yeah, we don't do that. Yeah. Any questions on act 20? Oh, yeah. A little bit. So, here's our 2.5. So, pillar two and pillar three for fine arts night. So, the reason we have 2.5 is because we really felt like pillar two. Uh belonging is obviously a big part of fine arts night, but also is engagement. We have so many families in our community come in for this event and we really just felt like it covers. Yeah. So finance night is a thing that we host in the spring and the entire elementary school and work day
045or boys girls day or whatever it is. um so I worked with the music teacher and we chose a theme which was amazing and this year the theme was um the music teacher works on different [Music] songs a little over 300 anon colors and then we hung up black lights and entire room and I also had other projects hang up in the hallway and then classroom teachers also had different things. Yeah, I give a shout out to her with that art show. It was I mean I've been doing this a long time and it was a highlight. Yeah. Sounds everything. kids were so proud and I think that's as said that's really we're nurturing the whole with research with the music with the creative side with talking about it and um having everybody come through
046and see it's a really special way you know and it's like it just was really really cool these were the focus areas for each and these are some examples of what our school ended up looking like said our students really felt like this was one art project together, you know what I mean? And the students put everything together, but otherwise Yeah, they Yeah, they did it. And it's in all of them like third grade it takes over their fourth grade. What is it? You can tie in so much with the curriculum, but really it's coming down to just that. It literally fit perfectly. Thank you, Mr. like, "Wait, I saw them on." I was like, "Wait, you're like really paying attention on purpose to I will let Um, I was really bad at this at
047the beginning, but January school. Hi, Mr. So, I always [Laughter] [Music] start. We also understand that um while we know super important for the staff program the kids um we also know that we don't want our learning to happen in isolation. So we value the partnership families and we try to really not only provide high challenge but also high support and with that we expect our students to take ownership of what needs might they have. So we kind of cheated a little bit which it sounds like it wasn't just us. 2.5 pillars that we are highlighting instead of just two. Um and so our first one is pillar one preparing for the future and we're focusing on act 20 implementation which we turn over to Mrs. M. up. So for example, so act 20 has
048been our life for the last year and a half about. So we've had a lot of learning, we've had a lot of just extra information. Um so provisions for those that are not in act 20 and science based early instruction that is research based basically students prohibit method of that reading instruction testing are required to screener three times a year personal reading plans anybody who scores below the 25th percentile on the early personal reading plan and then with that comes weekly progress monitoring communication with parents much a lot communication with parent and then the year that we're providing one or two instruction requirements again along with the 10e parent cards progress updates we are required to report some certain information we're going to continue to look at and then teacher training requirements three teachers all
049um have to be trained in state approved training and then literacy and we actually and fifth grade teachers take part as well just because learning to read doesn't stop at third grade. So, um we did that and that was a heavy lift for everybody um just district uh monetary wise uh with staff time wise took almost 50 hours to complete that training we started last spring and will be done this Friday um it just was the biggest so impact and goals um of course the the big goal act 20 is improved reading proficiency and really the key is early intervention so it was approved because we want to catch these kids as young as possible to intervene and get them reading proficiently by their names. So if you get a chance and want some extra
050reading, um the district website has a great act 20 page on it. It has a ton of information about what we do. Kudos to Mr. So um so we included this image of Scarbo's read because everything on the left side of the screen are all the things that a student, anybody really needs to become a skilled reader. So skilled readers on the right and all of those things get intertwined together to become a skilled reader. If you're missing one of those pieces, you will not have a tight rope and so you will not be as skilled as you could be. Right? So, um, if you scroll down though, the reason that we included this next image is just because we have to pinpoint those skills. We'll talk about that. When we look at the foundation,
051we need we know that if we don't have a strong foundation, we're not going to have that base. We don't have that base, then those rules that are going to happen are going to be really hard for our kiddos to keep on moving forward. So we have done testing to know that where are our kiddoles in those groups hurting the most what is their biggest struggle. So is it fluency? Is it phonics? Is it phonic awareness? We are then breaking those groups up into smaller groups which we have done a really great job of with this year and then really focusing on those traits. So every win cycle we are really that's our focus. And so I think we're doing a really great job with that. Just truly getting what skill they need to move
052them up. This is the schedule we talked about and like Mrs. mentioned, we finish it on this Friday and so we're super excited and like she also said it was about 40 almost 50 hours of of of work and additional hours. And so um we think about the module work that happened in the middle but also then our facilitated sessions and the great thing about that even though it was more time um was the fact that we took the learning that we had in the model how does that practice how we do how are we already doing that how should we adjust um what can we do going forward and so it's not just a one time learning it's something that's going to be typing in our for a long time school district and so
053we um I'm taking this one. So, uh a lot of things have happened and been thrown at us and with that um sometimes maybe Mrs. Greer and some of us got a little bit more information ahead of time. What we knew was that the teachers already had a lot on their plates and so Mrs. Greer did a great job. This is just one example of a resource that we will use going forward and we've used this year is okay now we games web this is the assessment we're supposed to do. Well, they've never been trained. They've never done it. So, we have to get them trained and then we have to teach them how to get into it. So, there's a video she created and then here's the steps to do and then what do
054you do if your teacher your student doesn't know what to do next and then how do we do it in a way that is consistent. Don't put him on. Don't put him on. Also remember what all these other pieces that just resource that she did a great job um setting our classroom teachers up for success, but then also our our staff just did a great job of saying, "Hey, yep, this is something we didn't choose, but we're going to take it and we're going to do what's best for our kids." Very proud of our staff. Um I'll do the assessment. So this is the beginning because because they can't read. So what we get is kindergarten a little bit and toward the end of the year then lot of assessment vocabulary fourth and fifth grade
055you go when you look at this two minutes so that's two minutes per child and so um when they're doing fluency they're reading past two passages a minute each and so that's child. you think about the structures that we need in place for those other students. Um, where do we fit that within our instructional time? What what gives student more time in our day? And it was very interesting because I was little. So that assessment's happening while super sit down five minutes really and then you got 20 students. that was really quite transitioning twice, you know. And then this is that flowchart that's on our web page. Um that just really explains how we're meeting act 20 and what we're doing about it. So it was it was very also thinking about our core instruction
056as well. And then we don't like to just get information and not think about our families as well. So we thought about hey how does we're talking about fluency and some of that's new for some of us. Well, it's going to be new for our families. And so we created some structures for them. What is fluency? How do I help my child with it? Um we're sending fluency home to have you work on it. Well, does that replace my other homework? So give you some homework guidance. Um and then really just thinking about how do we keep them engaged in their learning. Even though fluency is a big topic, we also know it's not. And so what is your child learning a really good conversation starter? two students that were like we are so these
057are just some pictures of our awesome students at work and then most recently a student who was having struggles just behaviorally just with different challenges and so our SSIT team had the idea of looking at the survey to see who they connected with that child a lot of work it's been a lot of work forunate And it was fascinating because when I looked at who the person was not even at the same recess started later where this child has connected and now the child basically implemented a curriculum each year improve some things on the survey but so like basically what you did our staff handled it in a way that I guess has not You mean even so here's the cheat pillar 2.5 and um so is our next year and the reason we couldn't
058just have it be one pillars really feel like it does it does the belonging of pillar 2 and it does the engagement of pillar three the family that comes to this event and if your sister was here I'd look at her too but that was interesting stuck together. They do. Um, I work with the music teacher to pick a theme and this year we did amazing animals and then we tell the classroom teachers and then they kind of tag along and do their own theme and then I did each kid a little art show. So in a little theater we use black lights and then I hung everything up and usually I'm like all right so I love you too I'll see you later. But it's so cool because each day that's how they start
059you know that I think that's great. I mean this is one of the coolest things I've uh seen over the fine arts night all the years we've done it. Uh the kids were so proud it was just you just went in there and it's a whole different world. Um as uh she said we work together on the theme all the all the grade levels come up with uh some sort of research project and then an art project but then the best part is it's displayed in the hallways and our building is one collective art piece along with a written research and the students are just so through and not only show off their work but look at everyone else check in. It's just fabulous. So yeah, like Mr. McNeel said, it really does become one.
060I know like two weeks. [Music] I know, but I wasn't [Music] sure. Good. How are you? [Music] Yeah, that was February. Yeah, I will. I did. Oh, wonderful. Congratulations. Yeah, I did too. I just bought [Music] like I don't know if they do it. I know it's a question. [Music] No, I just Oh my god. I see where I am still. So, now we're doing I figured it out in my head. What's wrong with my computer? Okay, so we are going to move on to our presentation of the high school bathroom stalls. No. Yep. Are we? Oh, we said we were doing it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Never mind. Yes. Yes, please. So, um, as we've talked about at least a little bit, Mr. John talked about, we have a group of load of
061high school students here. The student applied to private problem solving team. They identified a challenge with the current bathroom and locker room stall configuration. Knowing that many students uh struggled to use the stalls comfortably in space and door orientation. After presenting an initial solution to the facility finance committee in November of 2024, the students worked with an architect and returned in March with a revised proposal. Um and then at the committee asked the administration to talk to the maintenance department about bringing back proposals which happened at the last meeting. Um but we thought it would be great for the um SAPS club to come and give the full presentation because obviously just portions of the board is seated. So I am going to turn it over to Miss Katie Sheing I believe and Emily Pembarge
062who are going to do a presentation and I think Mr. Potter probably has it quicker for you. Yeah. There we go. Yeah. I don't know where to go. Um, hello. I'm Katie Schilling and I'm here on behalf of SAP School. I'm Emily Tempor. I'm assisting Katie right now. Yeah. Um, so we're gonna be talking about the women's bathroom stalls at the high school. Yes. So, to preview just a little bit, this is our problem. As you can see, the door is very, very close to the toilet seat, and this makes it very uncomfortable and very awkward to go to the restroom. to see another perspective. Here's me. You can see how close it gets. Now you're screwed inside the toilet. And she's Yeah. And you can't do that. I couldn't do that. Yes. It's you
063have to go further into the stall in order to get out. Um this is not practical at all. So, um, yeah, you can see, uh, this little arrow here. It's a very, very small amount. I think it's about 6 in or something like that. Yes. Or less so because I think those tiles are just less than six inches. And that's about half of a tile. So, and when the toilet seats when the seats down, it's it's even a little closer. Yeah. typically. So, our student issue is students cannot fit comfortably. Um, the doors open inward. So, that makes it very difficult for students to get in and out of the bathroom stalls and you struggle to open and close them. And this is a daily struggle. So, you know, everybody has to go to the
064bathroom at least once a day at school and students are already very stressed. They don't want to be missing class. They're missing content. So, they're they're kind of rushing. They're kind of just wanting to get it over and done. And this makes it an extra step. This is very um frustrating for students um especially if they get caught up in the door and it's just uncomfortable. Yeah. Also to add on to that, not only is it a struggle for our students, but it's also a struggle for the staff and um community members when they come in for to see athletic games or to come see the musicals or anything music related. Yeah. Yeah. So, this reflects not only on our students but on our community as well. Okay. So, our problem is that students can't
065fit comfortably in the bathroom stalls, which should not be a problem. So, we're like, "What the heck?" Because going to the bathroom is a natural thing. Everyone has to go to the bathroom. So, it shouldn't have to be a struggle to just go to the bathroom. What the heck? Yeah. So, here's a different angle of what we mean. So, this is me again being an actress. This is another angle. So you can see that I'm clearly pinned against the door and I was pretty much as far as I could go back into the stall and I was still very very close to the door. And here is me. You can you can see another angle of me entering. I have to kind of lean around the door to get in and it's it's just very
066uncomfortable to do. Yes. And you are a smaller person, right? Compared to some Yeah. bigger people. Well, we want it to be comfortable for everyone. You know, it it should be an accessible um place to be. Okay. So, our first idea when we came to the facility and uh finance committee was that we could change the bathroom stalls from inward opening to outward opening. So, originally they're like this and we would want to make them so that go like that so that it just make it easier to get into the bathroom stalls. So the steps for that, number one would be to take the door and door frames off on the stalls. So right now it's um cement pillars and then there's two door frames, industrial door frames. So one side of the frame is
067thicker than the other. So there's a thick one and there's a small one. So the next step would be to swap the door frames. So then you can actually put the door back on. So we when we looked at this issue, we were thinking about how many we would have to actually change. So in the men's um bathrooms, there is four stalls and the locker rooms there are two. That's just because, you know, there's one handicap stall that um doesn't really need to be fixed and then there's only one other stall. But in the women's there are 19 and there are two I think there's four locker rooms. That's a total of 29. 29. Um so to solve the issue um it would be so students could fit more comfortably when they're using the restroom.
068The doors would in this first idea that we had would open outward and opening the and closing the door would be easy. And this would also be empowering our student voices because as Mr. John mentioned before, we put out a survey and this was one that was clearly mentioned multiple times of students being like, I noticed that this is something in our school and I would really appreciate it as a student if we could expand this and make this something that's more accessible. And then so our first idea was knocked down due some due to some uh difficult regulations regulations. So we met with the school P to come up with some other solutions and the solution that we came up with was to add partitions so as to extend the walls. So this is
069what it originally looks like and then the red would be the part that comes out and then the blue is the door. So, it's still opening inwards, but there's more room for the door to not be as close to the toilet. Yeah. So, we have um a couple. So, the P gave us an estimate of about a thousand per stall. And then if there's 29 stalls, that's 29,000 as an estimated total. But that's just his estimate. So, he suggested that we talk to Block and Iron and Supply Company to get a quote. But they also gave us a couple of layouts to show us what it would look like. So this is the one. How many inches did they go out there that you didn't have before? 10 or 12. I can't read it from
070here. Does it say? Um, not on this specific one. It's up to 12 in. Up to 12 in that we could extend. So you can kind of see here how the partition would move the door farther out. And in the next slide, you can see the original swing path of the door. It's that curved line. Um, and that would be extended backward, which would leave around up to 12 in of more room in between the door and the edge of the toilet seat, removing the problem. So, that's the men's locker room. And then the next is the main toilet room. So, there's four women's um partitions that would be needed. And then in the ELC wing, which is basically the art and egg wing, there's three. So that's why there's a weird number of bathrooms.
071And then so they also gave us their quotes. For the plastic partitions, it's about 40,000. And then for baked enamel, it's about 29. 29,000. Yes. And then uh we got Oh, yeah. So, we suggested uh having phases so you could go wing by wing and finish it over time. So, as you so you wouldn't have to pay one total amount at one time, you could spread out the money. And then we got two other quotes. You went too far. Just got two other quotes that you guys brought in alone. Maybe I don't know if it's load. But there were two other quotes using plastic and then steel was the other option provided by this other company. Um and those had reduced prices. Um but it's a decision of what materials you want to use, you
072know, um over time if it would be more sustainable. Um and that be up to the board on what you guys would decide to do. Yeah, I think we agreed on there was a steel partition that was about 23,000 to both install and um get them made. Yeah. So, the maintenance department um their recommendation is that the board would move forward with this project is to use the metal door, not the plastic door. Yes. Right. Right. So, that was the question. So, just to show you once again, this is our is our main issue. You can how how close it can get. So, do you have any questions? And just to because I've seen your presentations at the facility in finance, um your first the first thought with opening the doors out was um because
073of handicap accessibility and um you know, space in between when the doors would be open. Yeah. And if you had it going outward, there would be um a safety hazard because you don't know something. Sure. That makes sense. I was wondering when you guys tend to use the bathrooms, do you bring your backpacks in or do you leave or your bags or do you leave everything out? We normally go um during classroom, but the bags, if you do have a bag, it's stored on a wall that's like around here. Okay. There's there's a shelf because I mean that's like another huge thing that would I mean I've used these bathrooms and I'm not a big person and I every time I use them I'm frustrated that I'm like backed into the corner I'm trying to
074shut the door and not get my clothes in the toilet and I'm trying to go in there with with my little one to have kids it's like it was a nice little dance. I mean if the disabled one is full then you're trying to take a person in there with you. It's I mean I just think of elderly. Yeah. Larger people like couple years ago my size um it was a struggle to get in there pregnant people. Yeah. Um here's a thought I just had by looking at it this way. Was there ever a thought or a discussion? Not that it's going to make it more room because it really is in my opinion disgusting that you have to like touch the toilet that other people have used. Um, you know, with with your stuff
075because it's so close, but moving the toilet paper holder to the other side of the wall. Would that help? I just throwing it. I was going to say the door. I don't think it would open. There's already the True. No. All right. See, that's why I said it out loud because I knew somebody would. Well, yeah. And you know, because we've seen the presentations, too, but like thinking of other Yeah. I mean, not everybody has. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, like you said, this doesn't only affect, you know, half of the school's population, but it affects our community as well because, you know, we really like to include the community in all of our events. you know, like the musical. And I know that a lot of grandparents love watching their kids and, you know, when
076intermission hits and they all, you know, go to the bathroom and go get a little snack. This can be a real issue um for a major population of the people coming to support us. So, do you have any questions? Any more questions? Any more questions? The only thing I would add is the bids that didn't load. Um, one was force and um the metal was $42,000 45 and their plastic was 53,000. Um, and the final quote they got from quality door I think the board has loaded in their documents. Uh there's a there's a $23,000 23,047 for the metal. Um and plastic is more expensive, which was surprising. I asked the same question. I thought it was going to be cleaner. Yeah. Um what did they tell me? I'm bl It's a It's more the
077because of the the plastic and the processing making of it, it's much more expensive because you got Okay. Wasn't that something like that? have a crazy 37,000 ones for the plastic. What about a door? Not a pocket door, but those like 70s doors that like the accordion doors. You know what I'm talking about that you you go like this and they just like smoosh together. Maybe that's a dumb idea. No, it's not a dumb idea. Maybe like I'm just saying maybe there are no dumb ideas that would be like then you wouldn't have to totally retrofit like add this this extension. It could just be and that push over and then there'd be more. I don't know. Yeah. Not trying to derail what you already thinking. Um just one thing that I'm thinking about right
078now um is that maybe the the hinge like the what are they called? The things that hold the doors. Yeah. Um those might have to be replaced if you add that system and those are actually bolted into the cement blocks. So that's another problem with the first um idea that we had is that that would call for complete demolition um which would probably cost more in fact than just adding the partition because there's so it's kind of like the way Neil was describing it's kind of like this door here. So in that this is what you're talking about right? Yeah. Yeah. So there's concrete inside of that frame that's been poured in there. So taking that frame off is yeah be very yeah it would be a huge expense to question with an accordion door
079would be the um durability right yeah durability and is it even would it be a code y a coded door these are I mean the plastic or the metal are are to code for the building at the time it was built isn't that how Neil explained Um the other piece is obviously it's going to make it's going to look a little goofy like however you do it but it's it's functioning over um you know what it looks like but that's going to be that's one of the things something longer to begin. Well but this was 20 20ome years ago though too ago so still weird. No I know about so have you guys seen them? So, is it just like the typical metal bathroom door is what's going to be, but it's going to be
080obviously to stick out? Is that just like the normal? Okay. It just be like normal bathroom small doors. Okay. Um Oh, I just thought Well, the question is where the money come from? That's that was one of the questions at the committee level. Yeah. From the finance committee. There was a question as to what was in fund 41 that could be used for this project. Um the amount that was levied beyond referendum amounts after you take out expenses in the past three years I get 315,500 is what my calculations were this week. Yeah. The hard part and in going through that the other day was right we our referendum capital projects money goes into that fund as well. So, it was se it was going back in and making sure we wanted to segregate make
081sure that was segregated out because we don't want to be using referendum funds. Not that you can't, but um we're already concerned about referendum um being close to over budget. So, we don't want to be using any of those funds. So, there's $315,000 um in that fund, but just we love to it every year. $50,000. We put a little more in the last few years um for capital projects. And wasn't two things I just thought of. Wasn't um one of you know what I just I'll get back to it. I should have wrote it. It left just as soon as it got in. Happens to Oh, I know. Wasn't part of the the with fund 41 is because of inflation as it has been. Of course, we can't really predict, we can guess the future.
082um it was so much higher versus what was predicted or or guessed at at referendum for referendum for doing the referendum that that money was then going to go towards helping pay for those items that we said we were going to do with the referendum money for capital projects to help fund those. Yeah. So again, we're still a few years toward from the end of our referendum and those things. Um so some things have come in over budget. So like the track came in over budget, but we cut phased that back. So it was 70,000 or $50,000 over budget. Um a lot of the technology pieces that we put together um due to some changes that um thanks to Tyler and his team and conversations they had, they came in well under budget. Great. Thank
083you. The the roof over here came in over budget. Not as much as we thought it was going to, but still came over budget. Um, as of right now, the first section of the high school roof is under budget. Um, and for now, right? So, that part is So, we have two more sections to do. So, that's part um so we're just have to wait and see where we are. Um, we know we were we were scheduled to do middle school controllers. Um, we were able to find some grant funding that offset that. Um, that so that'll help that as well. So, we'll be looking all those things. I do know what the other thing was. Um, the if I'm Scott and Adam, correct me if I'm wrong, but we had talked about or maybe
084the SAPS students had talked about um with doing this, you know, spreading it out over a couple years, but then they couldn't guarantee the prices if we were to break that out. So, it was it's either this nothing or No, you still have all you still have all those options. You still have options, right? Right. Right. So the options we discussed at the table were not doing anything. Right. Right. It's been this way for 25 years. Um the option is to do it in phases. Um like just do the main bathrooms that are um by the auditorium and the gym, the ones that are used the most, especially by our visitors as well. Um and then phase that in um over years, but the price that we have now is based on them doing all
085of them at once. Correct. Um, so they would have to rebid them at doing that and then following year rebbit them again. Um, and again they might be a different shade, right? You just can't guarantee if they don't come together. But again, if they're in different bathrooms, no one's really going to notice. Um, but that's a possibility is spreading them out or doing, you know, one bathroom and see what it looks like and see how it goes or or, you know, bite the bullet and do it all. You know, your options. Um, the And just so the everybody knows the facilian finance committee brought it to the board without a recommendation because they didn't they we weren't able to give them the how much money was in fund 41 and they didn't feel comfortable making
086a recommendation without knowing that and now we know the amount that's just okay. So we have the money for it to do this. That's what I can Yeah. I'm a little I know you just gave those figures but like are you saying that we shouldn't really tap into that money for No, I I I'm saying that that's what that fund is for. So, it's for um capital projects. So, we um levy $50,000 a year in there every year. We put more in there last year. Um but again, it's just it's to help us when there's issues like any capital projects we have if there's a boiler or um other projects we have to do. So, we we're trying to build that fund up a little bit. Um but we also know that the referendum as
087we're going through projects, some have been over budget, some are under budget. Um feeling is that at the end we're probably going to be a little over budget. We don't know for sure, but we want to be able to either have to scale back 10 projects or have money in this fund to help cover those projects. And the funding that's levied for future projects kind of like at your house if your furnace goes out, your AC, you know, hopefully you've got a fund. Yeah. you know that you're I mean I learned that when my kids were I totally follow what my what the high school um um financial lit financial lit yeah what they teach you know I've got like five different savings accounts you know for certain things you know one of them is
088home improvements and that kind of thing one's a car you know that kind of thing so those aren't tied to specific you know that was the other concern I know Jason you did it wasn't it they're not tied to specific items But they have to be used in a certain way building. Yeah. They have to be used in a certain way for, you know, like I said at your house, if your furnace goes out, you got to buy a new furnace. You're not going to have So So again, this would be a legitimate use of those that money out of that fund. But again, you can only spend money once, right? So if you spent it, it's that's what it's useful for. It's not used for anything. Do you guys remember? So I know you
089gave us the number. So there's 29 doors, right? And then those main bathrooms, like I'm just kind of in my brain just thinking if if we like did want to scale back and we did just the ones that are kind of used mainly by our community more than the students. Not that I don't care about the students either. Um how many stalls would that be? Do you guys know? Like eight to 10 maybe. 10. You have you have four in the across from the gym, four across from the um and then one in the mail stall male bathrooms as well. I thought the male bathroom couldn't be done. No, no, there's two in the male bathrooms. Um, the one stall is big, but you have the handicap, but I thought the way that it was
090laid out. Do you remember what I'm talking about with how the handicap stall is like against, you know, let's say this is let's say this is the bathroom. The handicap stall is here. The other one's like here. Urinals are here. So there wasn't a way I thought for this one because of the handicap stall here or am I I think you might be right about that. the way the toilet is positioned and when the door is position positioned with it, it would be weird to have partition um come out of it because then it would be in the way of the handic because I wonder I think Neil now obviously if we if we ended up getting a new quote I mean you know they might have said oh well you have so many doors
091I'm going to give you a deal so it could be different but I know if with this quote if we did all of them I think he said it was going to be $800 a door. Yeah. A little under that. Yeah. With the Yeah. With the quality door, I think it was. But if you get a new bid, they might say, "Well, they're only doing this many." So So now it's going to be this much, $900 or something. But just to get an idea if we did want to and I think that this is something that we should act on tonight so they could do it over the summer. That is the conversation we did have was either we don't do it tonight, we'll probably have to wait till next summer to do it. Um,
092and it's just it's been a long process. Right. Right. The kids brought it to us. They're homework. They're not going to change. Well, and that's the thing like I'm kind of torn because we have been dealing with it for so long. But I mean, if the kids are talking about it, you know that community members, maybe they even actually gone to us and said, "You should fix your doors." or they're using or they're using a handicap stall that because they can't fit if if it was configured right they could fit in a normalsiz stall. Yeah. But then are using I know I used to use the handicap stall because I couldn't get in for my size at the time. Yeah. But then I felt guilty using that because what if somebody came in that legit
093needed that stall? Do No, I know. And that's why I'm like I know. I mean I the I kind of like the idea of trying like half or something or trying but at the same time with this I mean not to get into the weeds here but with the tariff prices like if we don't lock in this price and then next year things could be totally different. I mean assuming that they're importing it's not going down right. Well that's true. It's not going to get cheaper but it could be worse. So, um I want to know what the other side of the table has. There's been a bunch from the middle in the side here. Well, I was on um finance and facility, so I got to see all of their presentations and I've just
094saw it forever. It's ridiculous how those stalls are. I just I you know, and if it's the thing that kept coming up from the students just feel like we're going to be student and community centered and we're going to follow our pillars and I just think they did their due diligence and I would completely be happy to bring the vote up and and vote for it. I just want to make sure we've got the right amount of stalls because because of because of the men's not the men's locker rooms. Okay. It's the men's and I don't know if it's are both bathrooms the same size same design on each end. Yes, they are. Okay. because of the concern. You know what I'm talking about with the men's bathroom in those the bigger bathrooms on the
095ends with that handicap stall than the other. So there'd be four less doors. No, two two less stores because you wouldn't do anything with the handicaps. Were you guys already incorporating that into your numbers? Do you remember? That's what I'm wondering. Are those two not include the handicap stalls in that? No, not the handicap, but the the ones in the men's bathroom. the men's the the ones not the handicap men's bathroom stall, but the other men's bathroom stall. I think they're included in the number. I think they were included in the number. So, you take those two out or we think you still go ahead with the bid, whatever it is, and then you have Neil work with the company if there's four less doors and you take four doors off the bid or two
096or whatever it is. So, I think you move forward with whatever it is. So, my hesitation with this hasn't been with your process, hasn't been with the work that you've done. It hasn't been with your idea. I think your idea is very good. My hesitation is is the cost and I tried to make that very clear at the committee level meeting. I think that the work you guys have done is excellent and I I applaud it. But it does come back to the the cost. Side note, if either of you want to go into sales, you should think about doing that. I was gonna say I'm undecided. Okay. I am undecided as of right now. Your presentation tonight helped me to understand the issue more. I did not have time to go and look myself
097before tonight's meeting or I would have. So the visualization, the was all that helpful. So, I will make my decision after the board finishes discussion and then a vote is called for, but to get and I'm not bringing this up to try to derail the process or to convert people to a certain way of voting. The fund that we would have to use to pay for this is our fund that we're using for capital projects. And when we went through the referendum process a number of years ago, there were projects that were laid out that we said we're going to we're going to do this if the if the referendum passes. and we've tried to live up to our end of the bargain, but the reality is that with co prices went up significantly on
098these projects from where they were budgeted at the time of the referendum. So, if we decide to spend $23,000 on this worthy project that you guys have brought to us, the unfortunate reality, and Dr. Bry hit on this a little bit earlier, is that it's $23,000 that we don't have to spend on something else. And we still have two years of capital projects that even with and and please board don't get derailed by the fact of talking about this $350,000 that's levied. That's not $350,000 of free money for us to to spend. That money is that money and then some in reality will be needed to complete these projects that we told the community we were going to do. We have to go to referendum in November of 2026 and we're going to have to
099ask for millions and millions and millions of dollars that our community has to support. And if if we don't do something that we said we were going to do to the community because we don't have the money because we spend it on this, that could have a negative impact on us getting our next referendum passed. So in the scheme of things and in in the in the budget of the district school district of Loa is $23,000 a lot. No, it it's not. But that's that's what I'm wrestling with. If I vote yes for this, understanding and and hearing your point and hearing your concerns and hearing the students concerns and me not having taken into consideration, oh, it's not just high school students that are using this, but community using this. And that was that
100was something I hadn't thought of. But if we agree to to do this, it could potentially mean that there's something that we can't do that we said we were going to. So that's that's what I'm wrestling with. And that's why that's why I tried to kick the can down the road at the committee meeting and not have this discussed tonight so that I could think more about it and do more research. But I understand we have to act on it and For us to get the best deal, we have to do the whole job. The reason that we have that $23,000 price tag compared to some of the other prices that were much higher is to do all the work at once and to do it now and to not space it out. And frankly,
101if we're going to do it, we shouldn't do it for half. We should commit to do it do it for all. So in order for me to vote yes, I have to get over my concern and my fear of being able to possibly do something else because we don't have that that money without holding anybody to it. Is there that money we have left right now if bids went perfectly and we didn't go over what would we can is there a way you could tell me what we'd be left with or no I wouldn't be able no we're too far I mean we have two more years of roof bits to go through so for us to those are I mean those are the big things we have other things I was going to say
102the roof can you what else was in there because the the high school roof was three phases over three years, right? Yeah. I got the You have it, Eric? I read the chart on the chart. So, this next year is or this year you got the parking lot for high school. Middle school or middle school. H high school HVAC. That's coming. Uh so that we've already done some of that. Um because of the we had some issues with um cyber security. We redid it. That's right. Um the school generator is that done? That's a question. It hasn't been done yet. Um high school parking lot. That will need to be done. Sidewalks repaired. And then I think it's just the tech replace interactive displays upgraded. Cat 6 upgrade. They're doing that this this summer. Parking
103lot, district office parking lot. We just did this one, right? Back. Oh. So, do we need a new parking lot better than we need stalls? And that's that's for us to decide, right? Is it? Yeah. Vince, can you can you help me to clarify something in my mind? When the referendum was put forth and we laid out this five-year plan of these capital projects at the time of the referendum, did we was it out there for community to to view what we were going to do and what we're going to do each year? Yeah. So, there is a schedule. Where do I find where do I find that? It's on the referendum page. That was part of which is where on the board docs. I Now, if you go to the LOI website. Yep. I'm
104on the school district. Go to our district. Our district. Referendum. I'm sorry. It's about us. Ult about us. And then referendum 2022. Okay. On the bottom of that, that has been on there since we passed the referendum. Um, Mr. Potter, have we talked about tech up the tech upgrades that are coming for Have we gone through that piece through facility and finance already? We've gone through what's happening this summer, which would be a third of the cabling projects. Is that the cat? That's not is that the cat six? Okay. I think what it really boils down to for us tonight is is the board comfortable diverting some of that money that would be needed to complete this work kind of turning left with it and taking $23,000 for this for this project. I think that's
105really what it comes down to because the reality is those projects are going to cost more than what they were budgeted for when the referendum was created. And and I'm not I'm not saying one is right and one is wrong. That's just what what I think we need to answer in order to have our vote and to decide if we're going to move forward. Could we possibly get a new quote with I know that the the price that you guys got was um based on this volume, but of just targeting, you know, like the two like maybe the bath the women's bathrooms and the men's well, I guess maybe we can't do men's, but the women's bathrooms by the gym and the ones over by the PAC. Um, I I I understand that the price
106is cheaper if we do it all at one time, but um I would be curious what how much cheaper it would be, like if we do it if we do like half now versus doing all of it now um before we decide or do you write it into the next referendum? So that means though it wouldn't get built until what? 2028 8. So I have somewhere in there. Two questions then if my So this parking lot is 2026. Not this parking lot. No, it says lees OSC asphalt. What is it? So there's asphalt over there. I'd have to have Neil come in. We have to go back. Exactly. Like probably that's that parking lot over there that's across the street. Oh the Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Where Jim uses Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Where the gym uses
107the bathroom. I was thinking it was this one. I'm like this one this looks really good. We just concrete. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, it's the asphalt areas and probably the best. So, we have to look at all the cost of all those. Yeah. Yeah. So, the big the biggest issue the biggest ones on there are the roof. The roof is the biggest roof and um HVAC potentially the HVAC controllers. We've been doing some of those. Um right. Those are all expensive items, but they're all built in. Um, as I said, we are right now on track pretty pretty good. But again, it's just hard to know, right, with right, we've we had this roof go way over. We've had right now our other ones are under, but you know, our our this roof was
108very old. Had a lot of issues. Our one at the high school was a 25 year old roof that was the original one put on, so it was not as many issues of going back in and changing that. So, how soon do we have to like pull like a trigger, make a decision on this if if it's going to be on a summer schedule to to actually have something built? If right now they have like eight week six to 8 week lead time. Okay. All right. So, for us, if we push this off to June, that puts us again now their lead time and and their lead time may change when you get to summer, right? Other people are doing summer projects. So, I again it's up to the board to make a decision whenever
109they want to do this. I have a question. I don't know for you, Dr. Bryant, or for Jason. Um, if this were to be if we were to say, um, to Neil or whomever, we need you to rebid this for, let's say, the two big bathrooms and that's it. Do we need to do can we just go back can Neil go back to those people and say this is what we're doing or is there a process that has to be done for bidding because of the cost or just go back to those companies and ask for just go back and ask for new bids and how can that be done in a fairly quickly timed you know like because I'm just thinking if if we were to say you know we want the two outside
110the two wing bathrooms done Well, but then you've got the other bathroom in the what's that area called the back where the tech um what's that technical education about that bathroom I mean I don't want to so those two and that instead of I don't know then I wonder if the students would start going to like more would be going to the ones that were bigger and then you you guys would have like extra activity in those bathrooms that might happen if we don't. So, to answer your question, it wouldn't take long to they've all bid it. So, for them to come back and say, "Well, we're not going to do 29. We need you to do 15." They would be able to regenerate those bits fairly quickly, I would assume. I would think, which
111means we could potentially see it in June and in June hopefully the lead time. But then again, projects are going. You just don't know if they're going to be able to get it done and they can't do it. Can we shut down a bathroom and have them do it during the school time? Is that we can, but we would rather not have people working in our bathroom if we don't have to during school. Well, no. I'm just I know I'm just asking the question. I mean, could it be done, you know, construction? Because my guess is it's going to be noisy. Would this affect summer school, too? Like the bathrooms? It's not good. Well, and it's not just the ones downstairs, but again, we're talking 60 weeks towards the end of summer school. It'll be
112the second session of summer. It's a much smaller population. Okay. Yes, that they're literally smaller. Smaller. Yeah, they're smaller and smaller. They're smaller there. Teresa, what were you going to say? Is there any opportunity to recoup some of the money to put it back in there? Is there any fundraising we can do? Is there can we charge a bathroom fee? I don't know. In Morocco, you pay for your paper. Some countries you do pay for that. We ask the community members who use those restrooms if they think that this is a good and a good use of I think one of the other things we very careful of is going out and asking our community for more money. Right. So, we just passed a referendum. I we We fundraised for a stadium project. We passed
113a referendum. We just did Stride for Pride which raised $50,000. We So we need to be careful of how many times we go out to our community with our hat in our hand. Right? It it's they're going to if I'm a community member, I'm like when's enough enough? When are you going to manage your resources and do what you need to do? Um right. There's there's state funding issues that happen. Um right. So, one of the things you can do is, you know, reach out to your local legislature and talk. They're doing state funding right now. Um, and talking about state budget, but I I would be very hesitant to go out and I have a hard time justifying that we're fundraising for a bathroom. I think that's something that we are required to provide
114for our students. I think it's a safety concern, first of all, to leave them as they are. And also, accessibility is a thing. I've thought so many times I've been in those bathrooms that like we've discussed already that if you were like using a walker and I've seen el elderly people try to get into those stalls and they're really struggling. If they're using a walker they should use the handicap stall but they're not always available these big music events. These when they were built they were to code yes has to do changed and if they were built today would they not be to code? I don't know the answer to that question. We're not 100% sure. I think we talked about Adam at one point. I don't know the answer to that question because I
115I would assume they would be bigger. I don't know. I think Okay, I would like to say something because I haven't said anything for a long time. Please, this is my thing. This is about more about women, but it's about our community and it's about what they've all done. I agree with everything about we have to watch our monies, but you know what? I'd rather see the district parking lot back the office parking lot back there. Wait for another time than have these stalls fixed now. And I'd say all of them because everybody's using all of them. I agree with you. I think if you're going to do it, you do all. I don't think but I think we should go back here. Do half and this that and the other. I think you can
116do it. I make a motion. I make a motion that we go ahead and accept the offer that we've been presented for $23,000 to fix the women's bathroom specifically to have enough room in the stalls. I'll second that. Motion by Terry, second by Teresa. What What was the motion? What are you? I was just going to the further discussion or anything. There's one written right here. That's where is it? Yeah. Do you want to do you want to revise your No, it's not revised. It can be just Oh, here it's under here on the It's under the proposal at the like the second page has the motion. The second the specifically women part you can interpret that as you're not doing the boys. Oh, no. We I would love to do it for the men
117if the men's bathroom could do it. Well, just one of them. I think redo the motion. Yeah, because the motion you just stated would just have us doing women's. Okay. Yeah. Here's I'm not finding it. Go ahead and make it here. Nope, I'm not making it. I'm still struggling. Okay, you can start. I'm sorry. I My computer went to Okay. I move to the full board with your recommendation of Oh, yeah. I move to the full board with your recommendation of approval of the bathroom stall project as outlined in the SAPS club presentation funded by the capital projects budget fund 41. I'll second that. It's a motion by Terry, second by Teresa. Any further discussion? Yeah, I'm still Yeah, I'd love to hear a president comment on it. Well, I did and I still said
118that I'm pretty torn. Um, I am leaning towards yes in the respect that I'm going to be positive thinking here that our bids are going to come in somewhat close from or, you know, the actual invoice is going to be close to the bids. I'm hoping we can find a way. I just I think it's something that probably should have been dealt with a long time ago. Um, you know, being a shorter person, I I noticed it. So, you know, and I remember bringing several kids in there at times and it was a pain. Um, you know, I kind of always just like, okay, you deal with it. And I, you know, that's fine, but I know there's other people that had more issues with it. And, you know, we pride ourselves on being accessible
119to everybody. Um, so I am very hesitant. I'm nervous. that it's going to bite us in the butt later. So, I'm a little scared, but I think if if I had to vote right now, which we're going to vote soon, um I'm probably going to go with yes, unless something drastic happens. I just But yes, it's I've loved this discussion because as you I mean, I know all the work you guys have put into it, too, which I think is pretty awesome, and that's my heart is kind of leaning towards that more, too. Um but um but no, we have a lot of big decisions coming up, especially with another referendum coming up. So I am and that's why I know you guys are sitting there just like, "Oh my gosh, can these people make
120a decision?" But um it's not it's a lot. It's not just making a decision about this. No. And that's what I am struggling with because it's a domino effect. We talk about that all the time as a board is you know you do this and then this is gonna be effect this is gonna be effect this. So we have to it's stressful. Okay. That that is what I am struggling with is I know I mean yeah well one of the things I was just thinking um about is that I really appreciate that several of you guys are seniors and you are not going to even really I mean unless you come back if this were if it were to pass. Yes. If it I was going I'm going to get to a point like if
121it were to pass I mean hopefully you'll come back to Loi you know and come to some things at the PAC or come to some sports and utilize the potentially new improved bathrooms but I really it's making me think just generally like related to what Heather just said it's it's not just about where we're at right now but making this better for the future too. and we can keep kind of kicking this project down the line because it's been the status quo, but it's been uncomfortable. And I mean, I I suspect there's some students because it isn't just about the community. Some students that they really probably struggle in these bathrooms and like and are very uncomfortable. Um, and I I would like to help make, you know, improve that for them. So, well, and
122we've all been talking obviously it always says what's best for the our for the kids on here and this decision when it comes to accessibility is going to be more than just the kids. Um, but we also have a referendum that we need to, you know, that we promise to the people, not necessarily do one parking lot. I'm looking at parking lot versus No, and I get that. But if we kind of spelled out what we were going to do, we can't just change that either, you know. But I I agree. I feel like this should probably be a, you know, but is it because I I'm I wasn't on the board when the referendum, you know, took I mean, I was a community member, but not a board member. Is is this locked in
123place? like could we move something around or or do we or we have to do we can move things around. Um right but I think to Scott's point earlier like we told the community we're going to do these things like is there a chance that there's something we're not going to get done because it's it's bit it's over bid or we have to scale things back. We already did that right. We did that with the track. We scale that back. Y um so those are always things you might have to do. Um, but I, you know, when you back go back out referendum, you want to be able to point to like we said we're going to do this and this is what we did. Another consideration too when speaking about the referendum is we've
124got these projects listed out. Say we don't do one and we have to put it on the next referendum. How do you how do you square that with the community? You said you were going to do it with my tax dollars on this referendum and now you're coming back telling me you didn't do it and asking me to pay for it again. Well, and I know some people wouldn't really accept this response to that, but I would say the students we they they're speaking. This is what is going to make their lives better at school. And that's really important, I think. and they did they did the research and did their due diligence, you know, and the bid includes the company doing the installation. It's not our Yeah. So, we're not paying so we can't
125just buy the stuff and we don't have the expertise to do that. Eric, the leesc the back side. I'm guessing the backside that ent where the for the dumpster and the kitchen that goes by that comes from like by St. Pats and stuff back through there and then uh it's not very big chunk. No, I know. And then isn't there a pathway like from the building? Is it an asphalt pathway? That's uh that's village or city. Oh, to the Okay. Okay. And I think this bid expires pretty quick, right? They didn't like promise that Right. It was It's expiring. I'm sure they'll hold it for us. We would have to rebid it if we go out again, but again, it's not a big deal. We can always rebid things. That's They would I'm sure we'd
126be happy to rebid it. Um, but that would be it. I don't know. It's a bid. And when are we getting the first phase of the high school roof done? It's in the meeting. There's a meeting tomorrow. I mean, the planning stage is all it's it's scheduled to be done this summer. First phase is done this summer, but we've signed bids. Board approved that months ago. Three months ago, probably. So, um it is starting June 9th is when they were starting on that project. Motion on the table. There's a motion on the table. Is any more discussion? I think you should do a roll call. You are requesting roll call. Yeah. We're going to do it like how we do for close session. How we do for close session? Okay. So, Scott with me? Yeah.
127Start over here. You don't want to start over there. So, we just say yes or no. Okay. I say yes. Okay. I say no. I say yes. Teresa, what do you say? I say yes. You skipped yourself. Well, I was going to make myself do the Usually the president is the best. Usually the president goes last. That way it's a tie vote. All right. That's just making it harder on me. Typically that's how it works. Yeah. I'll say yes. Can I say yes? Motion passes and Adam, you are Rick. Okay, so motion is passing. 5 to one. Congratulations you guys. Good work you guys. And I hope you understand all of our points that we are bringing up. I have a stomach ache right now. Mine is still just churning. You know what you guys?
128You're going to go down in the history. But you did. You should go down in the history. That was a great presentation. I saw the earlier one and I thought it was great. That's so I could tell you added some stuff. Yes. We're going to put your pictures on the stalls. That's what I'm thinking. See with your names like chilling. And this has been a great discussion for the community and anybody that was willing to listen because we certainly went back and everything and everything. Seriously guys, good job. And thanks for asking the students what they want. And you know what? Just kidding. Wow. We're all getting sodas. Stress we have Sarah. I'm sorry. You want some more water? Sorry, I was just Eric. Thank you guys. Thank you. Okay. Boy, that emptied out. Thanks
129everybody. Thank you. All right. Okay. So, now I know we'll live through here. Public input. Oh, there doesn't appear to be any public input. Okay. Um, so consent agenda. Oh, okay. I have to go through it. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You got to go through. Okay. So, we have our minutes. I forgot about that. We have our vouchers. We have um a fundraiser request for Ameilia Haidider tournament. We have um a baseball fundraiser report. We have our D our middle school Washington DC trip field trip request and then a date request for was that the Wednesday? No, what was this? I don't remember what this was. There was all DC. I see. Okay. Sorry. Um, also I just wanted to mention thank you guys for getting quotes on that because we all noticed that was
130going up and you guys are still the cheapest and the best company. So, thank you. This one's empty. Oh, um, we have our committee recommendations for approval, our Dell computer purchase, NAMI contract, and our snow removal contract. Under other, we have our 2025 summer equipment request, uh, PTO school supply equip supply kits, start college now request, and a Wednesday evening request. uh we do have any retirements. Under resignations, we have a volunteer middle school wrestling coach, high school instrumental music teacher, primary school educational assistant, middle school special education assistant, OSC educational assistant, and a physical therapist. Uh lots under co-curricular, we have a head soccer coach and two or assistant and two volunteers. We have a head swim coach, two volunteers, football coaches, we have tennis coaches, we have cross country coaches. We have a
131change from assistant to volunteer boys soccer coach. We have assistant volleyball coach and a volley and head volleyball coach, two assistants, middle school head and two assistants. Under crew, we have um lifeguard WSI and the lifeguard early AM guard. Under regular staff, we have five for our summer cleaning crew and high school instrumental music teacher. And under personnel, we have two leave without pay request. Oh, no. I'm sorry. Leave without pay request. Yeah, I guess. Sorry. I don't know how many but oh few a few and that is it. All right I make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. I will second. Okay. Motion by Terry. Second by Sarah Ramish. Any more discussion? All in favor? I. Motion passes 70. All right. And now we have our administrative reports. Thank you guys
132for listening. Sorry. Uh LCAT. Okay. So, LCAD has moved its website to the district website under the community section. This change supports LCAT's engaged pillar of their strategic plan by enhancing visibility and accessibility. Visitors who click on the www.loadiction.org link will be d redirected to the new site. LCAD's visibility has steadily increased on its Facebook page by regularly posting projects and events for our followers. From March 17th to April 18th, LCAT's Facebook page received 5,729 views and reached 1,789 people. During this period, LCAT gained nine followers. To further enhance visibility and accessibility, LCAT quarterly newsletters are included in each school building's newsletter. ELCAT received grant funding, not Gundy, from the Wisconsin Department of Instruction's DPI, alcohol and other drugs, AODDA grant. Some of the funding addressed the issue of food insecurities among our students. LCAT
133allocated 25,500 to blessings in a backpack to supply food over the summer for students affected by food insecurities. The LCAT event trailer will be available for use again in May, specifically for alcohol-free family events. The trailer will be utilized by the Loi PTO group, one mother of a run and lift LOI for their community activities. Please note that the trailer cannot be used for events such as graduation parties, birthday parties, weddings, or wedding showers. Um, LCAD sent a letter to the parents and guardians of graduating students reminding them about the potential consequences of serving alcohol to underage individuals at graduation parties. LCAT encourages parents and guardians to organize safe alcohol-f free activities and events during the graduation season. The next LCAT meeting is set for Wednesday, May 21st at 9:00 a.m. It will take place
134at the Loai School District office. Elling Allen Ellingsworth, the Columbia County Public Health Officer, will present information on the newly created Columbia County Recovery app. Everyone is invited to attend. Thanks, Terry. student services. Um, last Wednesday was National School Nurse Day. Um, our school nurse plays such an important role in the health and well-being of our students and staff from providing that immediate care for injuries to promoting preventative health measures. Janelle's expertise is important for our success. So, thank you Janelle for all of her work in all of our school buildings. Um, next I want to give you an update on Project Search. So last month I shared that we had a student who's graduating from Project Search in June. Um though we don't have any students that are slated to go to Project Search.
135Um there's been a few changes. So previously Project Source was managed by the Sock Prairie Area School District and now beginning next year CISA 5 is going to be taking over that program. So not much will change kind of on the front end. It's more the be behind the scenes um things that are changing for Project Search. And then finally, our special education staff has started transitioning our students with disabilities already. So, we had meetings throughout the spring to um transition our second graders to the elementary school and so on. And we'll hold our last one at Friday's professional development day. Thank you. Uh Loai Primary School. Yeah, good evening. Um so first I just wanted to highlight um we did have a Herb Cole uh teacher fellowship recipient Miss Sarah Halen um after 11
136years she does an amazing job with our students and um was recognized for that. So um we also um Eric and I um Shinman and I did our uh bullying prevention family team meeting and so we just wanted to highlight a couple things. I'm going to share some things and he's welcome to jump into that too. Uh so we met um as part of our next step um just kind of as a review we had shared out with our students what bullying is and then we had shared information with our families and we invited families to come to a meeting. Um we had had the presentation and then invited to particular families if they wanted to join and give us some feedback on uh what we're currently doing and just kind of help us with
137that direction moving forward. So you can see the group's goals. uh we wanted them the families to become informed of district practices along with their frequency and district response to acts of bullying share their perspective insight with us and our school counselors they also attended this and then ask questions and then it was Mr. Shunaman and myself and our school counselors. Um our goals were to communicate practices and trends to the team and then listen to the parent team members and be responsive to team goals. And how many people came? We had Yeah. So our team um really consist their names are listed there. A big thank you to Carrie Anderson, Colleen Foley, Tanya Hastley, uh Ashley Kaplooi um were the four um parents that were there. Okay. So, um, and then what we did
138is we had them talk about kind of what do they feel like our strengths are, what are some areas for growth. And so, we listed those there as well. Um, kind of what we were hoping to do moving forward. Um, and then, you know, just really kind of helped us think about um, what areas uh, maybe to focus on and what this would look like going forward as far as a communication and a support. And so um some things that we really started to think about were considering renaming some presentation in our groups to focus on the priority of students being kind to one another. So more instead of it being you know all about bullying uh more about a belonging task force um something along that sort. um you yearly um include communication around
139this topic at the beginning of the year and again in February through announcements and family newsletters and then bring this group together along with any other new members in the fall and in the spring each school year. It was a really beneficial meeting for us. It just kind of like I said helped us see what we're doing well but also how we want to continue to grow change with that. Um uh and then I just also wanted to highlight we did do a lot with Strive with Pride. I know we're talking about in different areas, but you can see some of the different fundraising and fun activities that the kids had with that event. Um I'll have the pictures in the next one. But it was just an amazing opportunity to bring our students, our
140staff, our families all together. Um just yeah, it was just outstanding from everybody in the community support. We can't thank them enough for all the things they're doing. You were a great minion by the way. Really tall, but you were great. Um and then Pillar for District Workforce. Uh we um our certified staff this year wanted to thank the uh support staff and they actually came up with an assistant day. Um so we uh covered them uh covered for them to be able to have an hour of time together and they provided the lunch for them and just did some different thank yous for them. And then last week was staff appreciation and so just um extremely grateful for all the staff um everywhere but especially at the primary school for what they do each
141day. So just try to find some ways to honor them. So thank you. Y uh elementary and OSC. Yes. So, thank you. Um, one thing I wanted to highlight was just attendance. I was thinking about um kind of our practices and the ways that we've kind of adjusted. A big part of that has been obviously we still have our attendance policy, but also in our communication and the supports that we've been able to put in place um along with Adria and and Carrie um putting into place our check-in checkout systems. um also um our ability to look at uh trends through next path and be able to make sure that we're helping students be there um uh as much as possible. We know that if we want to move the needle forward in learning, we
142need them getting access to the instruction, which means we need them at school. So, um a lot of big thanks to Carrie and Kathy for the work that they do with attendance, monitoring that and our information, sending out information to families. um math meet. Uh big thank you to the middle school staff uh for all that they did planning the math meet. Um and then also um our team. A big shout out to Hannah Cole, Peyton Emerson, Phineas Skych, uh Peyton Hardell, Henry Carl, Jacob Carl, Addison Lord, and Nicholas Robbins for being our math meet team. Um they had a great time on the 30th. Um, and then also, um, I did link in the, uh, the presentation for you, um, the math 24 presentation that didn't work last time. In case any of you
143want to practice rematch in the future, just let me know. Close. Um, and then that was difficult for me to watch. Yeah. And then, uh, student engagement. These were some three uh third graders who brought to me uh quite the presentation of they want to create a garden and sell some fresh fruits and vegetables to help raise um uh uh things for the playground, money for the playground. Um it was a great conversation with these these girls, Nora, Finley, and Aerys. And uh just one example of the many ways that I get to see students going above and beyond. They did this on their own time uh most of the time on weekends at home uh creating a presentation um talking to their families coming and talking to me. We're really looking forward to using
144some of their skills at the sensory garden. Right, Miss M. And so um but they are um it's just one example of the way that we are creating and we get to work with innovative problem solvers just like our strategic plan says. um already talked about bullying um prevention um but then Stride with Pride. Just wanted to highlight a big thank you to Stephanie Jollet and Tessa Carl for all their work with Strive with Pride. Um and all the other parents that helped volunteer um this was the last time I looked according to this, but today I looked we're at like 39,000 um dollars that have been raised just on the website um with 966 donations. So that's like an average of a $40 donation. Um, so a lot of support. Um, we are super
145excited about our new playground and all that we'll be able to do for our students. Um, and then project night. Uh, this was the invitation, but it was last um last week. So, um, hopefully you were able to check it out. Um, OSC lemonade jelly was sold there. Uh, there still is some left, so if you're interested, please let me know. Um, but just a great night for students to highlight the learning that they've been doing this year as well. Um, also big thank you to the chamber and for King Fisher Yoga for hosting um some of the project work as well. Eric, I was wondering do you guys do a um survey like they were they presented at the primary school where the kids are I mean I know you would do maybe not
146pictures like photos but just to help the kids identify someone or multip people in the district that are that they connect they can connect with. I just wonder if that was happening at the um elementary lees as well. We do a survey with along the district. Um okay. As far as like if they have at least one, you know, one adult, but a specific survey with a picture and who the adult is. We we haven't done that, but I know that might be something we do in the future. Okay. It is something we look at um something we ask students, do they have feel like they have at least one trusted adult? Um and then we follow up with students based off at score. Okay. Thanks, Eric. Lai Middle School. Yeah, good evening board. Um,
147first thing, color pillar one, preparing for the future. Just want to acknowledge our science fair. Michelle How organizes this every single year and this year we had a record 38 students that stayed after school or during school day. They gave presentations. Um, was an outstanding turnout u with our families and our students. I want to congratulate Julian Bozart, our sixth grade student, for getting first place in that. And I want to thank our community judges, Stephanie Joolitz, uh Julia Deedert, uh James Lincoln, and Mayor Ann Lo, uh Groves Lloyd, and Christine Smith, um for being local judges for that. Um you guys already heard about career day when we did our rotations. Um going to pillar 2, want to acknowledge our school dance, and I know I do this every time. It's really middle school
148dances are really an amazing time. Um you know, the sixth graders are just awesome out there dancing like no one's watching, and the eighth graders are always a little bit too cool at that point. dance. So, but it's a great it's just a great atmosphere. Um, and our DJ does an awesome job of keeping keeping the kids involved and uh you see all sorts of dance moves from the worm to the gritty to to lots of different things. Um, I also want to acknowledge on April 4th we had a student choice day. So, during our advisory and win time was about 50 minutes and students were able to choose an activity uh that they could go to. Some of the activities they could choose from were walking on the track, playing in the gym, folding
149origami, drawing, uh classic bingo, um guessing the 80s rock song, which was just amazing. I I always kind of wanted to stay in there and guess the '8s rock song. Um but it was it was a great day for and a great way to kind of celebrate uh the end of the term uh and a great way to kick off our fourth quarter as well. Um, and then I just want to talk a little bit about uh pillar 4, our district workforce and teacher appreciation week and just an awesome job that's done by uh Leslie Faulk and Dawn Meyer in orchestrating all of that and planning for our staff. So, they did a baseball theme this year and they're able to get contributions from Katie's Bar and Grill, Madison Mailers, and the Madison Nightmares um
150towards this, but it was just an awesome week for our staff to to just kind of feel celebrated and appreciated. and we like to appreciate them every day, but it's always good to take some time uh to just appreciate them and you know as all the things that they do, all the hats that they wear. Um I also want to mention we also and I didn't put in my board report, but we also had a meeting with middle school and high school parents regarding bullying. We had four families. Um and I would say the biggest takeaway that we had from that meeting is we need to reflect on our communication practices with this. Um, and I know that's something that Joe and I and Jason um, and Vince and Adria will sit down and talk
151about like how how are we proactive in our communication as well as education of our students. Thanks. Thanks, Derek. Hi, school. All right. Thanks, Heather. Um, first part of the the presentation is about the jobs fair. So, we did we sent out two surveys, one to our businesses that participated and then to our students. Um, I'm not going to go through all of the results, but feel free to to look at some of the questions. Um, one of the things that stood out as far as the business is that they felt very welcome. They were glad that they could come. Um, and then they gave some recommendations for next year. They like the timing of it, which was Thursday, April 10th. As far as the students are concerned, it seemed as most of them liked
152it. Are they getting jobs because of the because of the jobs fair? Um, I would say not as many as we would like to see. So, we'll like consider what businesses were coming in next year considering that data that we gathered. Um, and then there's lots of other questions, but like I said, I won't go through that. One of the things I think we're going to do as a committee is invite at least 35 businesses because there are always five or six that can't come at the last minute. Our goal was to invite 30 and we did and they were going to be here and ended up being 24 because things come up and people have businesses and then suddenly they don't have somebody that can work that day. So, that's one thing that we
153we do want to improve on. Um, next thing is staff and and student recognition. So, I don't know if you heard about Renee Moldenhower. I'm sure you did. So, she received the Crystal Apple Award. She had no idea it was going to happen. So, uh, Lee Mills from Channel 15 reached out to me, um, and she said that she had received this and she was nominated by several parents, um, but also Anne Leny and she wanted to work it out as though she was just going to come in and film about Patchwork Enterprise. And so she was surprised while they were filming when they um gave her the Crystal Apple Apple award, which I think was awesome. She was featured in a live broadcast last week um with five other or four other award winners,
154which I thought was pretty cool. Um so it was a great experience for her. The next thing that's in my agenda is Whitney Roarge receiving a Cole Fellowship. Renee has been nominated three times for a Cole and has not gotten one. So, the news of the Crystal Apple Award was perfect timing for her. So, I was glad that she got that. Um, and then Whitney, Whitney Robart, uh, great art teacher, gives plenty of opportunities, many opportunities for our students every year. Um, she received, um, the gold fellowship, which I thought was awesome. Uh, senior signing days are a few student athletes, Izzy B and Olivia Herra, that will taking their academic and athletic skills to the next level. Um, both of them going for track in Oaklair and lacrosse. you can see our students of
155the month which I like to have an important report every year and then forensics was amazing. So there's lots of things to celebrate about the forensics team uh who participated in the WISDA state forensics uh festival. They they participated in a couple state uh forensics festivals did an outstanding job. We did have a prom uh last weekend. Um, our prom court, you can see their names there. And our prom royalty, which are voted by the junior class were Sophia and um, Rodie Rip. So, congratulations to them. Um, I wanted to give a shout out to the HODC family uh, for their decorations. So, I don't know if anybody was able to come in. They were the most amazing, most elaborate decorations that I think I've seen since I've been at the high school. Uh, the
156theme was The Great Gatsby. So, it was great. And then my Ashback and Kelsey Barlo who helped run it with the junior class. So, I appreciate them. you can see the pictures. Um, we did a fine arts night just recently, Monday, April 28th. Um, fine arts night is about the students that participate in forensics musical the play. Um, and all of the accomplish accomplishments that they do, but you can see the names of the adults that have a little bit of influence on them and help run those programs and are adviserss in those programs. So, take a look at them. It couldn't happen without them. But, we have a very, very talented senior class and other classes. So I really appreciate everything that they do. State Soul Ensemble uh recently happened and I just got
157an email from Kate. I think we we received seven students received exempl exemplarity. I can't say that word which is very um amazing and out of the ordinary for a school to receive seven. And then you can see all the students and what they're awarded there. Um I wanted to appreciate our football and cheer teams for being involved in this uh stride for pride. Um you can see that next. Kayla's gonna talk a little bit about second swing. Um there's some senior information. You all received a um invitation to come to our commencement ceremony. So and some of you have gotten back to me. So hopefully we'll see you there. Be there 15 minutes before. So 12:45 um and dress court. It gets hot on the state. Gets hot, don't it? Um the other administrators
158including Derek talked a little bit about our bullying parent focus group meeting that we had. So that just happened on Wednesday, April 23rd. Um the parent team, we wanted them to provide feedback on improving our practices. Um we also want to provide feedback on communications, which Derek talked about, and that's one of the things that I think we're lacking at, and then provide feedback on how to best get the information out to parents. We actually put them through a few scenarios. Well, actually, we were going to take them through two time. Middle school and high school were together. Middle school and high school were together. Um Avery was there as well. So, it was Jason, me, Derek, and Adria. Um there was one set or one high school parent there. a few of them couldn't
159come at the last minute and then a few middle school parents um and we took them through a scenario to let them know this is how we respond to it. I got some feedback from them. I thought it was great. Um I think we're going to continue to communicate our protocols every year but also meet with that uh group and other parents at least twice a year. So, uh I think it was worth the time and you can see the photos and advocate bro uh broadcast at the end as the high school. Thank you. Thank you. Can I ask a question? I'm sorry. Yeah. Thank you. Um, so it was very interesting with the primary school how they were finding out if there was an adult or someone in the community at school that they
160that they could go to and that they trusted. Um, it would be really awesome if that could be implemented at the high school and the middle school. I see Caleb shaking his head. probably the elementary school too because there are so many kids in our school who feel very alone and I hear about it and it just makes me feel sad and I think so I was trying to brainstorm ideas you know with the committee in my head about what might be helpful and I just thought if those kids could be could find someone a peer mentor or someone within the school that you know that they could you could help connect them. Like they're not connecting. So somebody needs to make a effort to connect them, but you don't know who's connected and who's
161not connected unless you ask. Well, that's even like Amy said, there was the one that surprised you that this little person didn't circle anybody and none of the nobody really thought that that was she was an issue. They they can sort of surprise you. Well, and even just looking at, you know, from your report, um just the zero, the one, the twos made me really sad to see that because there were so many that were, you know, even the threes, you know, because it was four and fives were like the most So we actually do that we do that in the middle school and in the fall we have actually we have it from both ends. We have uh our kids fill out a survey and they actually select staff members that they feel connected
162to. And what this does is for students that are struggling then we know who like their advocates are and we know who if we want to apply a mentor that gives us an opportunity to already know teachers they're connected with. And then we also have our staff go and identify students that they feel connected with. And what we do is we analyze those and try to build connections with either students that are saying they're not feeling connected or staff that aren't feeling like they necessarily have connections with some students. So that's an ongoing process throughout the year. Um so that's something that we you know we really value relationships and understand the importance of you know having not only peer friends but adults in school that you uh feel trusted in terms of like creating
163belonging for them. So that's just something that that's part of our yearly process that we do already. That's also one of our questions that our students answer on their on their screeners um fall, winter, and spring. Um, so if they do have a a trusted adult that they can go to at school. Um, so that is a question that's being kind of monitored throughout the school year. And then when we find students that don't have that connection or mark that as strongly disagree, then our um our counseling team at all of our buildings follow up with those students. What how do they get a screener? Like what's the screener about? So it's the next path student screener. Um, it monitors like culture and climate at all of our school buildings. There's also a couple of
164mental health questions on there um just to flag um any students that might be struggling with their mental health. If you go back to the um the board retreat that we had in January, there was a slide on there that told you exactly the questions that we that were asked at every grade level. Oh yeah. On that. So, so for the high school, for instance, the question that was asked is I I have at least one adult at school who cares about me. Um, and the last screener, which we just did, 94% of them said they did. Um, you're you're right though, there are kids that do not, and we need to find out who they are. We did an activity, not this year, but last year, where we had our staff actually um highlight
165the students they felt like they had a decent relationship with, and and there were kids that we did not. So, our goal was to reach out to those kids and have more conversations with them and bring them a little bit more and pay a little bit more attention to them. Um, but there are always kids missed for sure. So, Joe, you said that first question was what? Say first question. It was um I have at least one adult at school who cares about me. Okay. Do you know another way to put that is or another question I'm just thinking of? Is there an adult at school I would go to? Sure. Because I mean that's kind of two different things. They they might know you care about them, but are they going to come to
166you if they need something? But are those do you guys create those questions or is that created by somebody? We create them. Okay. There's also questions like I feel like I'm included in my school community and I have at least one friend at school. So, yeah, what was the response rate on that one? So, I feel included in my school community at the end of the year is 88%. And I have at least one friend at school, 97%. For the kids that took the survey, yeah, there's kids that didn't take it. So, are they required to take it? No, they uh parents can opt out. So, there are a few that do opt out. And at the middle school, the I have one adult that cares at least one adult that cares about me. It
167was 97% and I have at least one friend at school is 99%. I do think it should be worded like how the how yours was worded about I have an adult that I would go to. Yeah. A trusted adult that I would go to. Yeah. Amy, how did you get how did you say that? Like um what does I have to find the exact words but like was somebody that I would tell something happy or sad to. Oh okay. Yeah. You can't make it for a week because we do the same survey but again for our kids one of the things is we have talked about is how like an assessment on the iPad is a little bit more challenging for them to do these surveys whereas this was very directed their developmental level. So
168and I think the problem is sometimes if they're really kind of depressed and shut down they might not really answer the stuff. I don't know. I'm wonder capturing those people if it's voluntary because maybe they don't even take the time to fill it out if they feel already. I don't know. I know at our level it is part of like it's one part of our lesson. So when Mrs. Bar is doing a lesson, this is one of the things they do during one of the lessons. They take the assessment. Yeah. Right. So it's part of a bigger piece, right? It's all part of our nurturing whole child. We're doing the morning meetings. We're doing advisory. are doing all of those things to help support those areas all came out of our strategic plan and so
169it's great to hear all the different things that are going on. Right. There's always things you can think of like what can we do more? Yeah. Right. Or how to ask question different, right? But it's it's it's one of the things that's being addressed across our district and something we take very seriously. We want to make sure that our kids are connected and have relationships. Absolutely. Thank you guys for doing that. Thank you. last student. I so love your report with the little hat on there and the flowers. Thank you. Um, so let's start with band and choir programs. So a couple weeks ago, this has become sort of a tradition of ours. We take our three contemporary ac capella groups to the Man City A Capella Summit in Oregon. Uh, it's a lot of
170fun. It's a fundraiser for local things around there and yeah, it's a lot of fun. A lot of fun music, fun lights. Troy Hadley had a lot of fun. And our version of the Mass City Capella Summit, The Sing and Swing, is coming up this Saturday on the 17th in the high school PAC at 6 PM. Um, it will feature a variety of acts ranging from today's hits to Black Sabbath to some in between there. Uh, there will be a $10 charge at the door for attendees, but children five and under are free. And again, proceeds will go to the K12 music program in various ways. In academic excellence, uh, senior honor, senior honors night has been bumped around a little bit this evening. So, on May 21st, we will host our annual senior honors
171night. Members or members of the senior class will be honored with their graduation courts, scholarship, stos, etc. And students will be notified by mail. Am I correct with that? Yes. And the letters were just sent out. Awesome. Y and then L recognition. So about 15 years ago, we went to a Latte system rather than a class rank system which is meant to show rigor rather than pure GPA. So there's three levels of L recognition. There's kumlad, magnum lad, and sum kum lad ranging from u least recognition to most recognition. And these are the students that have achieved those. So, I just wanted to put their names in my reports to reflect their achievement here. I did a quick check. I don't mean to interrupt. I kind of do, but um 34. How many students are
172in the senior class? Um there's about 110. 110. That's 30% a third of the students. Yes. That's awesome. That's awesome. Sorry. you're fine. Um, and then again this Saturday in the morning, uh, the girls soccer team will host an Amelia Haidider memorial game and you're asked to please wear orange in recognition of Amelia and Leukemia. Um, it will be there to recognize the wonderful person that Amelia was and to fund raise for the scholarship that is set up in her honor. So, if you are able, please attend that and there's a QR code for donations to the Amelia Hire scholarship fund. And then of course a list of upcoming dates leading us all the way through the last days of school. Getting there. It's getting there. Where did this year go? Curriculum. Yeah. Just a
173quick update uh reminder. I know you've heard a lot about um jobs fairs, career fairs. We also have community connection classroom partnerships that are still going strong and we're even uh we're excited to jo to have 4K5 staff rejoin that PPG group next school year to bolster our numbers in that area. Um 4K5 many of the staff were doing at 20 this year and just wanted to give you a heads up that we'll be coming to the conclusion of that training for most of our staff this Friday which has been call. We started that at the tail end of last school year. So, it's been quite a journey and we're excited to finish that up and there's been a lot of great learning and conversations along the way. Then lastly, I just wanted to highlight
174um I know Eric touched on this briefly, but um we had the honor of hosting this school year the fifth, sixth, 7th, 8th uh regional math meets for the Dayne County Advanced Learner Network. Um, I was there and took a lot of these pictures. It was a wonderful event. Our, uh, middle school math team, um, led by Emily Perzbborne did a wonderful job running this event and all of the planning that went into it. And we even had high school helpers, as you can see there, who were grading a lot of the the team and individual math challenges. Uh, it was a great day. It was fun to have it on the stage of the PAC. We didn't know how that would go out, but it really it really turned out to be a neat
175event. So, a huge thank you to those middle school teachers who put a lot of time and energy and effort into that and to all of our students who were there competing and representing LONI really well both from individual standpoints and team standpoints just being respectful during the entire day. I just I just really appreciated that group. So, thanks Nick. Dr. Carl or Dr. Right. That's right. Dr. Carl is fine. Doctor to doctor. This is fine. Uh great just as Ben mentioned, graduation is uh Sunday, June 1st at 1 p.m. at the high school. Um it's always a great culminating event for the school district. Um but I also like it's we have to remember we're acknowledging our students, but we often forget to acknowledge the graduation is a district-wide celebration of our students as
176well as our staff and the work they put in all the years. um to get our students to that point in life. So, thank you to all of our staff for what they've done to support our current students this year and all you have did or will be doing to support those students who are graduating from the district. Um it's also a celebration for our families and the love and support and guidance they've given to our graduates throughout the year and a celebration of our community, all the resources we put in to our students. Um so, it is a really a big deal. So, thanks so much to our families and our community for partnering with us in the education of our students and uh the class year 2025. Speaking of the end of the
177school year, uh I just want to invite the board uh to the end of the year uh celebration that we have at LOI High School on Thursday, June 5th. That morning, we'll start with a staff breakfast in the high school comments and end with the performing arts center where we recognize staff for their years of service and recognize our retirees. We invite all the board members to attend that morning if you're able. We have breakfast at 7:30 and the program to follow. Uh uh Wednesday night this week, the strategic plan refresh committee will be holding their first meeting. Uh the community, this community committee was chosen to represent the different stakeholders in our group. Committee be working on developing a process to gather input uh from the community which will drive the refresh of our
178strategic plan. And uh finally, the facilian finance committee was fortunate enough to have beer financial come and uh share information last Tuesday just to give the committee an overview on uh district finances on school finance. It's always a good reminder to go through school finance and remember those things that you don't understand it but a deeper dive into LOI's finances and she share kind of financial projections with the district because we're always always want it's nice to have an independent um person come in and share that information and see it's like again it's not just LOI that's going through you know all all these other districts are going through referendum because of how the state funding formula works. That is all. Okay. Thank you. Um, this isn't even part I just want to say thank
179you to the staff and the teachers that did the gallery walk. We love that. We get it's we just get in a good mood after. So, thank you guys for doing that. I appreciate it. And Kayla, we're going to miss you. Thanks for being so awesome at what you do. Do you always wear a tie like at all times? I've never seen you without Do you wear like shorts? No. Okay. So, to school you just wear like clothes normal. You don't wear a tie or do you? No. Okay. And Pieties usually run around the track with that. I have my gym tie in my That would be awesome. Got it covered. Yeah. Okay. Um I want to start by saying thank you to my fellow board members for believing in me and trusting me with
180the role of school board president. I'm very honored and take the role very seriously. I am truly very grateful and I'm always striving to exceed your expectations. I'm excited for our current board to start our next year together. In addition to our normal everyday board activities and agenda items, we are starting our strategic plan refresh and really diving into the planning processes for the upcoming referendum. Our strategic plan refresh process may start with a small group of people, but the planning process will eventually be very widespread throughout our community. The initial group is just going to start the process, but the ultimate goal is to involve as many as possible. We will keep everyone informed of the planning process and would love to hear from all. Everyone is responsible for the success of our district
181and we want to hear from you. We may not be able to please everyone nor put everyone's personal priorities first, but the more input and information we have, the better decisions we can make for our district. Congratulations to all students that are having their end of year con concerts and other activities. Good luck to all athletes as they finish up their seasons and wishing for extended seasons for all of you. I want to send motivating, inspiring, and encouraging thoughts to all of our students to get through the end of the school year. You are almost there, which can be exciting and fun, but can be stressful, too. Please remember to use your time wisely, finish the year strong, and be appreciative of your parents and teachers. And of course, to our graduating seniors, congrats. Take
182a moment to be proud of your accomplishments. Enjoy and appreciate your last few days in our district. And please know that our entire community is so proud of you. Congrats on becoming a Loi alum. Thank you parents and caretakers for being great role models and support for your kids, including those last minute stressful moments when your kids call you saying they forgot something and asking in their sweetest voice if you're able to drop it off at school for them. I've I've been fooled by it many times. As frustrating as those moments are, enjoy them. It goes way too fast and those moments are gone before you know it. I also want to send all those same encouraging thoughts to our teachers and staff. Although it may be the end of the school year, we know
183that your dedication, work, and effort does not end there. We know that you are already preparing for next school year. Thank you for being so devoted to our students and our district. I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe summer. All right. Thanks, Heather. Yes. And now we move on to our food service contract. Yeah. So the school district of LOI has completed the required process to select a new food service management company to operate the stools meal program starting July 1st of 2025. Um we were at the end every 5 years we have to do this per DPI. So we've been here for 5 years. It was we had to do this process. Uh it was over overseen and tightly regulated by DPI to ensure fairness and transparency. Um, a request for proposal was
184shared widely through recommended channels with public notices on the and on the district website. After a site visit attended by four companies, two SF and Taher submitted formal bids, district committee reviewed and scored the proposals based on DPI's report required criteria with Taher earning the highest overall score. DPI approved the district's intent to award the contract to Taher. on May 5th. Um the facility and finance committee reviewed and supported the recommendation which now moves to the full board for approval. Um and again we continue just to be committed to providing high quality food to our students. And so we would look to a motion to approve this. I will make a motion to approve awarding the food service contract to to Taher Inc. I'll second. Motion by Sarah Ramish, second by Adam. Any more discussion?
185And Teresa, you were part of that, right? Is there any It was kind of an easy decision. Obviously, they just were looking the best and it I feel I it was more like they were um in a really good position because they're already here. So, for us to tweak and make the changes that that we want, like we we know what we're getting. Yeah. Um the presentations were all good. and theirs definitely scored the highest in the areas that we were ranking in. Um, and I think it'll be I think it'll be good also moving forward. Okay. The changes like everything that we people felt was not working well was all brought forward. So now we know what to work on. Perfect. Yeah. All right. Thank you. Any more discussion? All in favor? I. Anyone
186opposed? Motion passes 70. So, I'd like to really thank Jason Brewer for leading that process. I was just one of the first things he got to do when he came in the district was uh run a a very regulated process that had a lot of um hoops to jump through. So, thank you Jason for all your leadership in that area. Yeah, you did a great job. Thank you. Thank you. Um a Loi logo refresh. Yeah, as part of the school district's uh we adopted a communications plan. The district began a process um this year to sharpen its logo and update its branding guidelines. After interviewing several firms, uh we approved the partnership with Foundry led by a designer Nathan Chow um who's driving this important work. Nathan collaborated with the district leaders and developed some
187initial designs which are then reviewed by committee made up of staff and community members. Uh this group met several times to offer feedback and help shape the final recommendation. Final committee meeting took place on April 7th where members reached consensus and a recommended logo to present to the board. May 6 personnel committee meeting Nathan Chaw walked through the design process and shared the final proposal. Committee unanimously recommended approval advancing the refresh roal and branding guidelines to the full board. Special thanks to Adam Steinberg, Mo Palmer, Sue Meford, Katie Crane, Mike Clark, Heidi Lew, Derek Pritzburn, and Joe Gelnik for their thoughtful contributions throughout that process. So we would recommend approval. I was confused when I looked at this earlier which one is the one that was they're recommending logo tool. Sorry if I must have
188missed that. There's multiple logos different colors to go on to I was going to say there's different things different for different things might say LOI high school LOI middle school I don't like they're all here. fall in there. I I'm just not a fan of it. I'm not a fan of it either. I don't mind it in the L. I'm just not a fan of it. But we are It reminds me of our high school days. I like the mascot. I mean, I do. We are what we are. I came I came from He did say they made him a little more smiley than he used to be. Yeah. Mhm. So, the idea behind the logo, right, is just kind of him showing what's not was that the logo we had was very difficult. But
189when you shrunk it or you blew it up, it just it distorted it, right? And the idea behind the logo is it should be um no matter what you do, it should look better, right? So if you look at it's redrawn the the devil inside. So this is the loot logo. Um and then they also and they also created um crests for us to use. So if you think of the University of Wisconsin, right, University of Wisconsin has multiple logos, right? they have the motion W for their athletics or Bucky for athletics, but when you see um academic things, you see a crest, right? So, there's a crest here now too that we can use that we would use. I never really thought about that, but once he brought that up, it's true. Look at
190stuff and you can kind of tell then. And and again, one of the things you have to think about, we don't think about schools as a business, but we're 23 to$25 million business. We should look like it. Yeah. Um and then we need to sharpen up our logo and and have some guidelines. And so that will it'll be a process and we'll roll this out this fall. Um as we get going like the circle version. Yeah. Thank you guys for doing all that because I think it looks awesome. Also, the points that he was making about when they go to print the logo and the issues they have and with the colors and and with this branding, it will be very specific that everyone uses the same branding and having access to the logo and
191the files and making sure everything is consistent across the district. He he knows a lot about logos. Well, I would like to move to approve the Sharpen logo and updated branding plan. And I'll second that. Motion by Teresa, second by Terry. Any more discussion? All in favor? Anyone opposed? Motion passes 70. And our district staff handbook. Yeah. Board of Education needs to approve the updated staff handbook each year. Attached to the agenda item is the updated staff handbook and a list of changes that were made from last year. Please note there's no real significant changes. Most are pretty minor. Um mostly updating language to make sure the handbook is more clear. So typically what happened like during the school year something will come up and like it's not quite as clear as we need it
192to be. So we try to make it more clear. The personnel committee reviewed the handbook at their meeting in May 6 and unanimously move it to the full board with recommendation of approval. I'll make a motion to approve 2025 26 school district from LOI staff handbook as presented. I'll second. Motion by Sarah Ramish, second by Sarah Rip. Any more discussion? All in favor? I I. Motion pass. Oh, anyone opposed? Sorry. Motion passes 70. Middle school high school building staff handbooks. Yeah. So we are as we finish up this year that we've talked about a lot moving toward looking towards next year. Um we have handbooks u being put together. We did the elementary and primary NOS ones last meeting. Um so these are the handbooks for next year for the high school and middle school.
193So we recommend approval and we're absolutely 100% sure of the dates and the policies. We went through the policies. I doubled I didn't double check those. What? I know. shocking. I make a motion to approve the revisions to the middle school and high school staff handbooks. I'll second that. Motion by Adam, second by Terry. Any more discussion? All in favor? I. Anyone opposed? Motion passes 70. And we do not have any policy review, gifts, and donations. Make a motion to accept with great gratitude the generous donation of $1,500 from the LOI music booster club for the LOI music school band trip to Beyond the Notes Festival. I'll second. Motion by Adam, second by Sarah Ramish. Any more discussion? All in favor? Anyone opposed? Motion passes 70. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And oops. Many
194reports CISA five you meet uh this Wednesday or Thursday whatever the 15th is coming up. Okay. Thursday. Thursday. Thursday. Um our co-curricular items. I guess it's me now. Okay. All right. Well, um don't mess it up. I know. I'm actually nervous I'm going to mispronounce people's names. I've been sitting here going for those. So for baseball, the LOI baseball team is currently 103 with a conference record of 3-1. Conference wins have come against Lakeside Lutheran, Columbus, and Lake Mills. This past Saturday, LOI hosted senior day to honor and recognize players at their game against Deerfield. This coming Thursday, the baseball team will hold youth night during their game against Cambridge. Uh softball. The LOI softball team is currently 105 with a conference record of 5-2. Conference wins have included a close 98 win over Lakeside
195Lutheran in extra innings as well as wins over Columbus and Lake Mills. The softball team held youth day this past Saturday as at their game against Somerset. Special shout out to Vivian Beld who was nominated as one of the five stars of the week for the May 8th edition of the Portage Daily Register. Girls soccer. The Lodai girls soccer team is currently 511 with a conference record of 111. Recent matchups include a 4-0 conference win over Lakeside Lutheran in an 000 tie against Wisconsin Heights Barnabel. In April, the team hosted LOI Fire, Police, and EMS for first responders night. This coming Saturday, the team will honor former student athlete Amelia Haidider at their tournament. The LOI track team has been having another successful year. Both the boys and girls teams finished as runners up in
196the 12 team Westfield Invite. At Westfield, senior Izzy Bai, excuse me, broke a 30-year school record and has the farthest throw in the state this year. Crushing. Amazing. That is crushing it. The girls team has earned their seventh straight Capitol Conference North title with the boys finishing in third. Olivia Hayroth finished sixth in high jump at the state indoor track championships, earning the first medal at that event since 2022. On April 25th, the golf golf team competed in the MACC Fund Invitational. Teams raised money to support childhood cancer research. Between the Broadstand Piggly Wiggly Roundup and other donations, the team was able to raise $1,250 to donate to the MAC fund. The golf team has had two golfers recognized as five-star golfers of the week for the Portage Daily Register. Trevor Coots on May 2nd
197and Jesse Mson on May 9th. The team is currently sitting in third place in the conference and Trevor Kits is that Coots. Coots. Yeah, I say Coots is currently in fifth place in conference with one match to go. And lacrosse, the lacrosse co-op is currently 28 with a conference record of uh 0 to7. Next Thursday, May 22nd, the lacrosse team will play a home game at Lo Stadium against Jainsville, Fort Atinson, and Milton. Thank you. Oh, and then OSC. Are you doing that one then? I am doing OSC, too. It is my last Yes. report because I am Terry will take passing the reigns on to Terry. Very capable Terry. So, our last um board meeting was on April 16th. And um during that meeting, uh there was just a lot of discussion about final
198preparations for project night, which um Mr. Shinaman already mentioned, but that was from um everything I've heard extremely successful. while I was working the book fair so I couldn't miss it project night but um there were three locations the large gym and garden the chamber of commerce and King Fischer yoga studio Los Hernandez's food truck was there it looked very busy um the whole time that I when I few times I popped out there they were quite busy um very good you they're very good yeah the all school assembly uh took place following spring break they discussed that you can't have the highs without the lows and it was a good time to remind students of expectations. We also celebrated the OSC charter renewal and the school board's approval of the charter. So, uh we'd
199like to thank everyone involved and also we did have a cheers with um sparkling apple juice and champagne glasses. That was very exciting at the meeting. And um for OSC enrollment, spots have been accepted and there are seven third grade students on the waiting list. Um, and for fundraising for OSC, unfortunately, they were not able to do the plant sale this year. Lemonade jelly was sold at project night. And um, I don't know, Eric, do you have know anything about that? How that turned out? Pretty good, but we have some left. Okay. It's5 or $7. $7 a jar. Okay. $7 a jar. Okay. Okay. If they people wanted to buy one, how would they do that? Uh, right now, let me know. Okay. reach out to the principal at the elementary school. And two other
200final things, uh we discussed uh start like the planning for the lemonade stand at the LOI fair. So be on the lookout for the stand. And the next meeting is of the board is Wednesday, May 21st at 3:15 at OSC. Awesome. Thank you. Sure. Um, uh, personnel committee. Nobody. Oh, no. I'm sorry. Wrong policy. We didn't Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. I'm scared. Um, wait. What? Oh, personnel. Personnel. May I do personnel? Confused. I discovered at the meeting that I was the chairperson. I didn't. It was good. Um, okay. So, a lot of this we already went over, but Vince discussed how the communication plan was implemented in the district strategic plan and then Nathan Chow presented on on the work he's doing to identify issues with the school logo, which we went through all that and
201we approved it. Um, Mr. Gelanick presented on the growth and positive direction of the district's cheerleading program. Um, the committee discussed the current advisor positions. um that that we wanted to change them to head coach and assistant coach, which I could not believe that they were advisor positions when everyone else every other sport has a head coach and an assistant coach. So, um that was actually in the handbook. So, we approved that. Um, and then the committee discussed investigating models for future compensation increases based on market averages for positions. And I think that's all we talked about. Thank you. And the curriculum committee did not meet since the last board meeting. Uh, facility and finance. We talked about purchasing Dell computers for teachers, right? Yep. for teachers. Yeah. So, we're going to pre-purchase those before
202the tariffs kicked in at a cheaper price as opposed to purchasing them later. Uh you guys had a long discussion about the bathroom stalls where we also had that discussion at the committee meeting and we heard the bar presentation that Dr. Brian talked about. Um, batting cages are still on our radar and still on our regular committee meeting. I think we will get that figured out eventually. We're working on purchasing them right now or putting together the funding to purchasing them. Uh, we talked about the NAMI contract that we approved in consent agenda, snow removal contract, and then the food service discussion we also had at the committee that we just had. All right. Thank you. and uh policy committee did not meet unfortunately. So our future meetings um the next one is going to
203be Wednesday, May 28th at 4:30 is our curriculum committee meeting followed by the policy committee meeting. Same day, Wednesday, May 28th at 6 o'clock. And then Tuesday, June 3rd at 4:30 is our personnel committee meeting. And that will be followed by our facility and finance committee meeting June 3rd at 6 o'clock. And then our next regular school board meeting is Monday, June 9th at 5:30 with close session and 6:30 for open session. Do we need to go back into close? I do not believe we do. I'll make a motion to adjurnn. Second that motion by Sarah Ramish, second by Teresa. Any more discussion? All in favor? I. Anyone opposed? Motion passes 70. Return.