001to reconvene into our meeting and it looks like we are starting with a presentation. We're starting with taking positive steps of service award. Okay. And two music Mr. Katherine music. So Mr. was nominated for a positive selfless service award. Did you know that? Uh I think you did. Okay. So, um a parent of students in the LOI band program nominated Mr. Ha Doug for this award because of his thoughtful gesture in reaching out to let them know how proud he was of their children's dedication in preparing for solo and ensemble. They noted that while Mr. Hay is already incredibly dedicated to the program, the extra step to personally acknowledging students efforts to their families meant a great deal. Let's be honest, everyone appreciates when their hard work is noticed. For Mr. H to take the
002time to recognize some of our busiest students when he had no obligation to do so speaks volumes. It's no surprise a parent took notice. Thank you, Doug, for all you do to support our students and families. Your kindness and commitment makes LHS a better place for everyone. Mr. So, Mr. Hay brought some friends, we'll have him introduce that and go from there. Yeah. So, uh we were asked to to play at tonight's meeting and to maybe start us off with some music. So, um, we brought our woodwind ensemble from the wind ensemble at the high school. We have two bands, a concert band and a and a wind ensemble. Um, so this is our upper level group. Um, they're one of our three or four larger groups that we took to district solo ensemble uh
003at the end of February. And all our groups did very well, including these guys. And these guys qualified for state solo ensemble. and that will be held state soul and ensemble will be held at W Whitewater on April 26. So, we're sort of rebooting our performance and honing in on that performance that comes up in a couple weeks. So, we appreciate you having us here tonight and we'll show you uh what we've been working on. This is a piece called Scarzo by Vibb Makanti. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Can you guys have go down the line and say your name and what grade you guys are in? I'm in 11th grade. I'm Redell.
004I'm a 10th grade. I'm Emma and I'm a senior. I'm Addie Bell and I'm a senior. Tessa Burn, I'm a senior. Catherine Zack, I'm a senior. I'm Smith, I'm a freshman. I'm Sophia. I'm a junior. Bat Der, junior. Charlotte Lou, I'm a junior. Jillian Wiler, I'm a freshman. I'm Michaela Dul. I'm a junior. Uh, I'm Na Lamir. I'm a sophomore. Kayla Rozel, I'm a senior. Mar Ross, I'm a freshman. Sophia Andrews, I'm a junior. Nathan Robbins. I'm a sophomore. That was excellent, you guys. Thank you so much. [Music] Thank you for getting us new uniforms. We really like them. We really appreciate Mr. H. Thank you guys. You remember your band concert? The questions you asked your band um AP sports. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You asked them because you have a lot of um
005band uh students here hopefully. Yeah. It' be a good thing for them to hear. Yeah. So, um we did a big collective uh concert recently where we had all our 6th through 12th grade band students all in the gym all together. And so that was almost 300 students all on the gym floor together with all their parents and everybody filling the bleachers. Um so it was a really packed house concert which was great. And one of the couple of things that I I talked with the high schoolers about and we talked with the middle schoolers about and showed them because sometimes there's questions about like band and what you can do and can't do and sometimes people say some things that maybe aren't always totally true. And so, um, we wanted to clear the air
006on some of those things by by pointing out that you can do band and all the other things that you want to do, right? So, um, raise your hand if you're in band and choir, right? So, you can do both of those, right? Um, we don't have the full win ensemble here, but raise your hand if you play football. Raise your hand if you play basketball. Raise your hand if you do mock trial. Raise your hand if you do forensics. Raise your hand if you're involved in the musical. Uh, what else? Raise your hand if you're a cheerleader. Uh, what else? Track. Track. Right. There's all kinds of people, right? All kinds of sports, all kinds of other activities. Uh raise your hand if you're in an AP class. Yeah. Right. So uh while it
007definitely takes some dedication and some time like you definitely can do all the things and we try to be super flexible so that you can do all the things. Um and everyone gets that opportunity uh come sixth grade to try out instruments and to give it a go and and hopefully we see you at the high school uh down the road too. [Applause] So, Mr. H, I have a certificate for you. Thank you so much. And this is the grand um and we will deliver 100 grand to each of you in the near future. Awesome. All right. So, thanks everybody. Appreciate you guys are awesome. Thank you. Thank you. one. So, we have a few more. taking positive steps for service award. Um so the next one I have somebody here uh Dennis Crow come
008on up and he is I'm on the lace board. He's representing Lace tonight um on behalf of the board. And just so everybody knows I'm going to read a little bit about Lace so we know what it is. Uh the LOI area community endowment is a charitable fund established in 2009 by seven local citizens with a goal of preserving and enhancing the cultural, educational, environmental legacy of the Lodai area. LA serves as a permanent endowment providing financial support for educational and civic projects um in the Lodai area. It operates under the umbrella of the Madison Community Foundation, which some of you have probably heard of, which manages it manages its assets and provides administrative support. Since 2012, more than 40,000 dollars in grants have been awarded directly to our district schools and our groups associated
009with our schools. to name a few, our most recent upgrades to our wait room, the new stadium turf project, and endeavors such as Patchwork Enterprise. Dennis is here to represent Lace, the Lace Board to accept not only a Taking Positive Steps of Service award, but also with the help of Mr. Brinig, I nominated Lace for the Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators or WASDA for the Bert Grover Child Advocacy Award in February. And I'm excited to say that Lace because they have significantly committed themselves to children in our community with their financial support has earned this award as well. So congratulations to Le and we're going to take a picture. Are all the board members get How many you get? How many board members? I have three for you. We don't We don't need too
010many. There you go. No, I just Lee will turn that into five. Yeah, that's right. That's right. That's right. No, I just wanted to, you know, at least say thank you obviously to the nomination first off and then uh also one of our huge missions and goals of Lace is to provide or again Loiier Community Endowment Fund is to provide um uh awareness of what the fund does. Oftent times it might get lost amongst the community um and we provide funding for a wide range of things here in the community. One of the main things about the fund is that it has to uh go back to help those within the district. Um and so it's one of those things if anybody ever makes a donation, most or all of those funds always stay here
011and doubt for ever. Um and so it's a pretty pretty cool thing. And again, thank you very much. And uh yeah, we're going to take your picture in front of the nice blue devil. Yes. Thank you. Whichever one you get first. We have a couple more. Um, Bill and Patty and Amy and Gus. You want to be honorary member? Letha, you can, too. All right. It's up to you if you want to. I I don't you don't have to. So, um I nominated um the ICE trail alliance, but really Luke Cloberdance, Amy, Laura, Bill Welch, Petty um as well, and the rest of the the um chapter. Um Luke, Amy, and Bill and the chapter have done so much behind the scenes in regards to the Ice Age Trail campus designation and our ongoing partnership
012with Ice Hage Trail Alliance. They view the district and our students as valuable assets in the work of promoting, educating, accessing, and maintaining the Ice Age Trail. They often share opportunities with us and seek our input when it comes to what students can or should experience. They have so much knowledge and they freely share it with our staff and students. The collaboration with them, the LOI chapter and the Ice Trail Alliance is an intrical part of our students overall educational experience. So, thank you Luke, Amy, Bill, and the chapter for all you do. is recognized and appreciated and so are each of you. Thank you for being guardians of Loai Pride. You guys for sure. Anything you guys want to say? What would you like to say? Anything? Um, well, I was reminded when the
013band did their hand raising thing, when we have a group of students, we ask them, "How many of you have been on the trail?" And just about everybody raises their hand. And we ask, "How many of you have worked on the trail?" And about twothirds of them raised their hand. How many of you have been on the Ice Age Trail? That does not happen anywhere else than Wisconsin. It's remarkable. I'll just um on behalf of the alliance staff um I want to thank Bill and Patty and the chapter for all of their hard work um as volunteers. You guys really make the difference because you're the ones here in the community engaging the schools, engaging the teachers, and really, you know, making it happen. And those of you, the kids, um, I appreciate your willingness,
014to be good stewards, to engage with us, to be excited on what we're sharing with you. Um, it's awesome and it's a really really cool partnership and it it's not everywhere else. So, um, we're really proud that Loi is a trail community and a trail campus. So, um, thank you guys very much. Thank you. Yeah. All right. We have two. While you're taking a picture, we will do the last two. All right. So, Mr. Shunman and myself nominated Mrs. Sue Chambers and Mrs. Katie Greer. Uh Sue and Katie are deserving recipients of the Taking Positive Steps for Service Award, exemplifying outstanding dedication to supporting striving learners. As reading specialists, they have worked tirelessly to create a nurturing, growth focused environment for students who face challenges in their learning. Their expertise and commitment have been invaluable
015in guiding students toward improved literacy outcomes, ensuring that each individual receives the personalized attention they need to succeed. Through their approaches, they've been able to foster a love of reading while helping students build the ne ski skills necessary for academic achievement. Beyond this, they've also been instrumental in supporting their colleagues. They go above and beyond by providing teachers with resources, strategies, and encouragement to enhance their classroom instruction. They were the first to learn of Act 20 and played a pivotal role in assisting all of us in being able to implement the requirements. Their proactive approach to understanding this new legislation and its implications has been invaluable to all of the staff and especially they are key figures in planning and hosting the school's book fairs. Further promoting literacy in the community and making books accessible
016to all our students. Their unwavering commitment is fostering both student success and teacher development makes them exceptional leaders. Let's give them a big round of applause. go reading. No. Um, you know, it's a lot easier to do our job when we have the support of very supportive admin and this district that, you know, believes in the same things that we do. So, thank you. Thank you guys. Here you go. Here's your here's your act 20 bump race. Thank you. Congratulations. Yeah. So we are uh we have a presentation. I'm going turn it over to Mr. Shinaman. Yeah. And Mr. McNeel and Mrs. Castro. I think we have a presentation. Mo, did you get the should be there? Okay. Thank you. Um so we promised the students they didn't have to talk. Uh but we do
017have some members of our math 24 team here. And our um goal tonight is to give you a little bit of a taste of what they do. And I will tell you, um, this is one example of just what staff do in LOI. Um, they they, uh, we talk about, hey, we're going to get math 24 going again. And not only do they do that, um, but then they promote it. They give up their time. They, um, volunteer to be coaches when we really don't have a title, but they just do it. Um, so I'm very thankful to Mr. McNeel and Mrs. Castro for all their work um, that they have been doing um, not just for this team, but also just promoting math 24 and this opportunity in general. So, um, the presentation almost
018there. Almost there. It's coming. Perfect. Um, anything you guys wanted to share before we jump into the presentation? I thought we did get titles titles. Um, so math 24 has been going on for a while in Loi and then as some things go that uh uh things change and then we brought it back two years ago. This is our second year and I remember growing up with Mrs. Castro and we had a great group of kids and uh two years in a row now of having kids excited about math. Uh they gave up recesses uh when the weather was really nice too. So it wasn't just a bad weather gave up recesses to practice. Um but just seeing them thrilled about trying to solve math problems and get excited about math is is so exciting.
019Are we ready? I think so. Got it. This is because of the access we have. This is the best do. Well, I can reshare too, but we we go look at it later. Go ahead. So, math 24, if you didn't know, it is a fun uh fast-paced number game. Um, so you can scroll up. Mr. Potter, thank you. Um, and so sport, you might want to pay attention because here's our goal. I'm nervous. I'm nervous. We are going to have the team kind of play um some math 24 with you. Yep. So, we're going to need some some room. Um, it's an exciting card game. You guys want to give maybe the faster version than this or is the So, uh, fourth grade plays with single digits. So, on the card is four numbers. You
020can only use the number one time in a combination of any adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing. You don't have to use all the operations, but you can use any combination of those to come up with the number 24. Fifth grades is a little bit different for their numbers. Yeah, we have double digit but same concept. Use the numbers one time in a combination to equal the number 24. So, you're going to use the single digits on us. I don't know if this that's who you get to play against. Um, so one player will flip over the card, right? Um, and then we'll see um kind of what happens from there. Um, if you keep going down, Mr. Potter, um, maybe keep even going to the end. The last two slides, then we'll come back up.
021This is a little bit about our team to put some fear into you a little bit. We don't have enough already. We have we have we had four students place. Uh, the team did great. Um but we did have four students play and then they also got to go enjoy some culvers afterwards. Right. Last year we um got kind of started a little late with Matt 24 and so we got up there and we were playing against teams that had been practicing since se since since September and it showed. So we started earlier this year and you can see like to have four place winners um is really remarkable because we're going against seven other schools uh big schools really big schools. So, um, that was fantastic. But I have to say when you go
022to Culver's after, I mean, there's nothing beats Culver's, but seeing fourth and fifth graders having a great time together after a math meet and talking math and and and bonding uh, was priceless. So, it was a great experience. So, we'll be gentle. All right. Nope. Nope. All right. So, hey, math team, math 2014 team, come on out. Get you organized. Do you want them to play here or over at I think we can come to them maybe. Huh? We'll get to the So, we'll kind of come to you. You got yours. I have a question. Yeah. Is it just fourth and fifth? Is it just fourth and fifth graders or third? So, it's just fourth and fifth, but um some third grade teachers are practicing the single digit uh to get them ready for next
023year. And then well, I just think it's uh then hopefully we can get something going in middle school. Uh because it goes then to variables and integers in middle school. Uh six. Excited to see this back because my boys did it. 24. So if we go should we just go fours? What's that? Groups of fours or maybe one extra. We need we need Do you want two or three? Who you put in there? Four. We have Yep. And then three 15 tries for the fourth graders here. Yep. You three here. And then you three over there. Okay. That work. Yep. And then you ladies. Yeah. You just turn. Okay. team against us. There are one [Music] settle like now explain the one dot from this group. Um so dot right and we all get our
024fingers ready and then we dot and harder dot is some of them are very easy some of them are really hard. Okay. Well, we'll start with some one dots. So we'll start with I'm going to shut this down. There's no slapping a sit on our hand. If you say it wrong, penalty, but we won't just say like, "Oh, I got it." And you said it. Yeah, that's what I could I didn't quite understand. So, we'll have you three. Okay. So now so what they do they have to say the final fact first and then that way I know and then she'll start singing. So go ahead and then she would get the one two dots are worth two points. That was an easy one. Yeah, that was easy. Oh my god. Okay, that's the easy
025All right. Great. And then we'll move. I could do this all day. I'm never going to get [Music] so easily. Yeah, but you guys do it fast. You can't be that slow. I just like watching it. So, what about when you were doing this? In a competition, you're all in a big group and then four people at a table. Yeah. And so we would be at a smaller table and then each would kind of have that retrospective. So you just like leave your Can you just Oh jeez. I wasn't even trying to do that. Okay. All right. All right. Now I'm going to go into double digit. Yes. 15 + 9= 243 - 22 is 10 - 1 maybe but I need to add better half of that you when you do the double times
026flip the digits up or no. All right. Last card. Last card of the game. Last card of the color of the game. And then 2 is 32. That's it. [Music] Very good. Okay. a lot before the eating your cereal. You guys fantast everyone. You're going to meet me right here. Then we'll do a round of applause and then we're going to get you on your way. team 24 team. Alex, Alexander, and Lucas. Behind the board from behind. Let's go take a picture. Take a picture with us. Come on over. Get your picture. Thank you again. You guys come take a picture with them. [Music] Yeah, you guys should be in there. If you can see my camera, I can see your face. Mr. McNeel and Mrs. Castro are coming in. Yes. Oh, this is great.
027One, two, three, two, one. Got it. Nice job. [Applause] Great job, team. Thank you, parents. Thank you. You guys are free to go for tomorrow. It was amazing. You were lucky you missed that. Like they could take it on the road, I feel like. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, that was fun. That was fun. We start a meeting, right? Yeah. Really get our brain working. All right. Consent agenda items. We have our minutes. We have our vouchers. We have fundraiser request. Culver mentioned again. I feel like we should probably get some money from Culver's tonight. We keep mentioning them. When is the When is the Culver's fundraiser? Tomorrow. Where at? At Culver's inver. Okay. Thank you. I didn't have it open. 5 to 8. 5 to 8. 5 to 8. 5 to 8. Okay.
028Culver 5 to 8 tomorrow. Tax day. Everybody go eat at Cver. Want a key? Five to eight. 5 to 8 PTO. Okay. So um no fund fund raise request or reports. We have um two field trip requests from our wrestling team. We have some committee recommendations for approval for our facility and finance. We have our student Chromebook purchase applied population study LOI high school roof bid and our personnel committee is support staff starting pay base salary and co-curricular base increase and um AA compensation. Under other, we have um our winter sports season summary and we have a Wednesday evening request. Uh we do not have any retirements. We have um four resations, um two assistant football coaches, volunteer assistant middle school track coach, and a volunteer softball coach. For co-curricular, we have an assistant track
029coach, assistant golf coach at 60%, assistant golf coach, and then a head middle school and high school wrestling coach. Under crew, we have a volunteer, regular staff, we have um elementary educational assistant, middle school special education assistant, long-term sub, and an IT youth apprentice. Under personnel, uh we have one, two, three, four, five, six. Six, leave without pay request. Yep. Uh, so I make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented with the addition of the approval of the resignation of Jason Murray as assistant football coach. I'll second. Motion by Sarah Rip, second by Adam. Any more discussion? All in favor? Anyone? Oh, sorry, Sarah. Anyone opposed? Good. Um, I'm going to abstain from this. And motion passes 5-0. Yes. Okay. I was like, wait, did I count right? Yep. All right. And now
030we have our administrative reports. We will start with student services. Hi. Thanks, Heather. Um, let's start by recognizing our amazing building principles and their participation in our last poster of our poster campaign. Um, they helped us promote skin health, sun safety, and the importance of protecting your skin throughout the spring and summer months. Can I interrupt? Yes. Um, is that show? Did you tight roll your jeans? Wondering. I do hang out with a lot of teenagers. You hung those up. You hung those up and students stopped and went, "Wait a minute. What is that on the wall?" I'm not too proud. I like it. I like it. I like it. It's good look. Good luck. Okay. Sorry. Sorry. Um to go along with that skin health awareness, the wellness committee brought free skin cancer screenings
031to staff in partnership with Dean Health. Um and they have 56 appointments being offered through all of the Wednesdays in April. Next, I'd like to give you a update on Project Search. We have one student who's attending Project Search this school year. This is part of the transition readiness grant and we're in a consortium this year with the Sock Prairie School District. Um, our student has completed two rotations in the area of maintenance and environmental services and they're in their third rotation right now in the emergency room department and they'll be graduating in early June. That's awesome. Um, finally, I'd like to thank Janelle Civ and for arranging and completing vision and hearing screenings for our students. Um Janelle completed 167 hearing screenings for students in grades 4K and first grade. She also helped coordinate
032with Dean P I'm sorry Dean Peele from the Lions Club who completed 375 vision screenings for students in grades 4K 1st, third, and fifth. So these screenings let 17 recommendations for families to seek further followup from their medical provider. So thanks to Janelle for her leadership with this. Thank you for doing that. um primary school. Yes, good evening. So, I did highlight the thank you uh Adria for highlighting about Janelle. So, appreciate all of her work she did on that. Um for pillar one, we have completed our reading readiness screeners. We did that um two weeks ago and then we're working on um diagnostics and this week are going to be sharing out with families um those results on Wednesday and then having the new um reading plans of support, the personalized reading plans for
033those families starting Wednesday. So um that was a big lift for our staff and a lot of celebrations that are in place and some great things we're putting next steps for our students moving forward. Um, for pillar two, I just wanted to highlight the extension lessons that this is something that came from our PPG group last year. Um, and this is just a continuation of the lessons that um, our school counselors are doing in their classes, but it's something that the kids can do to just reiterate those skills or the teachers can do with those students. So, this is just some sample things of some activities that they can do in that morning meeting time there. And you can see for kindergarten, they were talking about personal space, first grade was power of words, and
034second grade is happiness. So, you know, Mrs. Bill can teach a lesson and that, you know, with her lesson and then the teachers once in the six day cycle will do it a continuation lesson just to, like I said, really make sure that transfer of skills is going across um the different environments. Um, and then I'll just do for pillar four district workforce. Um, we had March Madness and we had a cornhole tournament um and we had, you know, great time being able to participate in that. We did our final um competition was actually at our family gathering. So the whole school came together and we did have Mr. Sagami and Mrs. Fazinski were the winners of that. Um I will say that Mr. Sagami brought his own cornhole target. So we will next year
035have to kind of change that. And I do apologize to Mr. Bry. I did um I was a substitute for two different people and I u may have hit the lights twice at the primary school because I am not very good at cornholes. But we got it fixed. I didn't break it, but I definitely not good at this. Lights twice. I have twice. We have lights. Thank you. Thank you. Y um elementary OC. Hello. Thank you. First of all, after um Mrs. Fospender shared about um reading writing a screener. I want to make sure that I also let you know that normally we try to keep things consistent and um but the difference during the springtime um with some of those timelines is really the fact that we also have forward going on forward testing
036at at our level. So um ours are coming just a little bit behind um the primary school. So um speaking of forward I have some information there for you about all that we do and all staff have to do. Um, as I was reflecting on what to share, forward's a big part of what we're doing right now. As you heard students as they were saying, yeah, we gota go do forward forward testing tomorrow. But, um, the, um, staff also do a lot. And so, I listed some of the things that are just part of what we do every year um, to in preparation for forward um, just so you could see all that that entails. Um, and then if you have questions to let me know. Um, also we do help students understand that yes,
037we want to take everything we do seriously and we want you to always do your best and yet at the same time we know that the Ford exam does not assess everything that you are. Um, and so we help students understand that. Um, we did have a kickoff uh back to school after spring break assembly and so I shared some of the things um that that entailed. had some former students from Sock Prairie who are at the music world um come and help me out with a song. Um and they um helped the students learn the chorus and then perform that. Um the big kind of theme of it was you can't have the highs without the lows. And so um we understand that there are great moments in our day or in our lives,
038but there's also hard moments and that we uh get through that together. And the way that we do that is by making sure that we have a safe, collaborative and real learning environment. Um and then the other thing I wanted to highlight for you before some um social media posts um is just also what is happening with interviews. So we have some open positions. Um so we are thank you for the music interview team as we just kind of are working on finishing up um that process with the primary school as well and OSC music teacher hiring and then also going into our third grade teacher opening um um as well. So, a lot of people spending some extra time helping with uh on interview committees. Um then I wanted to highlight the post on
039the top right is from the assembly that we had. Um on the left there is um Monica came um and shared about engineering and really encouraged um students. Um she was really excited to see um how that transfers to her work um as an engineer as well. Um fine arts night, if you missed it, I'm sorry because it was a great night. Um, it was a lot of fun. This is just a little bit of the glow-in-the-dark art that happened in the little theater. Um, thanks to Miss NMO, um, and Mrs. S and Mrs. Roberts for all their work along with staff. And then obviously we still are promoting kindness. And so these are some students who are recognized for caught being kind um, recently. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, middle school. All right.
040Good evening, board. Um, first thing I want to do is congratulate our middle school forensics team. that we have awesome speakers in our forensics program. We had 38 different kids that were a part of this program and middle school is a hard time sometimes because you're super self-conscious kind of as you are middle schoolers. So, I'm really proud of all these kids being willing to stand up and speak in front of people which is hard for uh adults uh in general. So, congratulations to those students. Um we are also, as Eric mentioned, we are in the middle of forward exam uh season this week. We are working all sixth and through eighth graders are working through their math tests. Our eighth graders will work on social studies. Tess, I want to be a big shout
041out for uh Pete Franklin, Elise Kernney, Nick Francisco, and really all of our staff that create such a great environment for our kids. Uh make it a positive experience for them. And just as like a little side note, we go through about 2400 Jolly Ranchers because every time a kid takes a test, we we like to honor them and say like, you know, yep, we realize you're working hard. Here's a Jolly Rancher. So, it's about 2400 um for that. Um nurturing the whole child. We want to recognize the students of the month uh for February who are recognized for their initiative. These students are willing to take on challenges with enthusiasm and determination and they serve as a model for their peers at Loi Middle School. Um our DC trip happened last month. Um it
042says 454 students. It's just a 45 students a lot of buses uh on the way out there. Uh but we had 45 students that left on I think it was um March 8th at 5:00 a.m. which is a Saturday. um they take off and then they spend the week, you know, the day traveling out there and spend an awesome week out there. Um really learning a ton about our nation's history. Um but really building, you know, memories together. Uh it's a really great opportunity um for these kids. I was able to go last year and it's really just a special time for them. Um and then they come back the next Friday night and they get to sleep uh like for two days straight because they're exhausted because it is go go. Um I want
043to thank all the chaperones for that. Amy Christensen is our leader uh in setting up the DC trip. She does an amazing job working with world strides to get everything organized so that trip just feels flawless. Um Patrick Walsh, Matt Stone, and Carrie Bar also she own the trip this year which makes it possible for our students. Um I also want to acknowledge um eighth graders that don't go to DC. Our eighth grade team does an awesome job of really helping them create some memories. Um so they spend the week um doing other activities. They went and took a tour of the state capital. They went over the high school and watched a movie. Um they had a bowling opportunity. They went out to the school forest and did a scavenger hunt. Um so they
044really just spend a great week together again um building relationships and you know they're getting towards the end of their time in eighth grade. Um so it's a really special time for them as as we move towards the spring. Um I want to talk about the 612 and I'm sure Joe will mention this 612 band and choir concerts were amazing. Um and really this is it's such a great opportunity for our younger kids to see what is coming up. uh for them to see, you know, as I sat in the choir concert, advance concerts, and just listen to the musicianship of the sixth graders and hear what it's going to sound like in six years and just the amazing job our staff does in preparing them and and and continuing to grow them as they
045um go through our school system is just amazing. So, congratulations to Ashley Go Branson and Angela Roberts for all their work uh with our middle school programs. We uh really appreciate them. Um the last thing kind of a fun day we do each year at Lo Middle School is National Cereal Day which is on March 7th. So we actually um have cereal we ask the community to bring in cereal for reach out loi and this year we got 330 boxes of cereal and then what we do is it culminates in lining up all the cereal boxes in the hallway and in one big domino um trying to go around the hallway as far as we can. So we did that on the way. Did it make it all the way? It is not. We need
0465 40 to go all the way around. Um, so it goes about half a little over halfway around. Um, so next year's goal. Next year's goal. Yeah. No, it's really great. It's a great event for our kids. So a great and for the staff. So that's all for the middle school. Thank you. Thanks, Eric. Uh, high school. All right. Thanks, Heather. Uh, first of all, the Germans are on their Well, they're not on their way, but they're going to be coming here soon uh to visit our high school. So, we have 17 German guests, 15 students, and two staff members um that will be here. We're going to open it up on Monday with a pep rally for all of them. Um with our tie exchange, we do kind of a formal ceremony, a welcome
047ceremony. With the Germans, we do a pep rally. Um so, we're going to be doing that. I wanted to thank all the families. You can see their names there that'll be hosting. So, if you've ever hosted for Thailand, for Costa Rica, for the German exchange, it's a lot. Um so, I really appreciate all the families that are there. And then also Mike Meyers and Mason KDson are two adviserss for the exchange program for the German exchange program. Um I did want to mention up top that there were some students that actually received some scholarships to travel to Germany. Um so you can see the five students that are listed there. Um this is through the GAP program with the GermanAmerican Partnership Program. Uh and again Mason KDson and Mike Myers introduced this opportunity to our
048kids and they took advantage of it. And we have 22 students that have applied to go to Germany in the fall. So our numbers came down pretty significantly after COVID and they're starting to climb back. So that's nice to see. So that's the German exchange program. Do you have a limit of how many can go? Well, it depends on how many they can host. So they're sending 15. We're hoping they can host a few more. So yes, we will have a limit just based on the number of spaces that they have there for us. So we're hoping like 17 to 18 will be able to go. Okay. So um next the girls soccer experience. I just wanted to mention this. So Joe Burkholds not only coaches soccer, but he gives his um his players opportunities
049that sometimes they they might not get. And they went to a W Madison WMadison um and Madison forward soccer game. And then they not only got to watch the game, but during halftime they got to talk to the director of soccer operations, Keith Tyer, about what it's like to run a professional soccer team. So, I think it's great that some of our coaches are are giving our athletes not just opportunities on the field, but also different types of opportunities. So, I appreciate Joe for that. Um, student recognitions, I know State Solo Ensemble and Forensics, I know Caleb's going to mention something about that. So, I did want to mention state visual arts classic. Uh, you can see the students that are that participated that in that on April 4. Some really amazing, talented kids that
050were able to do that. So, I appreciate Whitney Roarge and her leadership in that. Um, and then you can go to the next page and you can see uh students of the month. I do want to mention one thing because I don't think Caleb will. Um, as far as forensics, Caleb Bratzel, fourth place overall in radio news reporting at the state tournament. So, congratulations Caleb. We won't have the results from this last weekend, so he might talk about that at UW. Um, but I did want to mention there was one student, Ash Crawl. She was the tournament champion in impromptu speaking. She's a sophomore. So that was really impressive that we had a student that was the tournament champion. So you can see her picture there. Um you can see our students of the month
051which we'll bring up. Also we had a Friday funday which we like to do with PBIS activities. Um and gives kids an opportunity to do something whatever they would like to do. Lots of different activities that we have on the Friday before spring break. Um speaking of fun, preACT secure testing is not. So, the only thing I wanted to say about this is that um with the ACT testing, with pre-ACCT, uh with um with forward testing, I think Derek talked about a little bit. Uh Eric talked about a little bit. It's a lot for our staff. Obviously, it's a lot for our students to have to test so much. Um but our staff and especially the committee, you can see their names there, a lot of the same names that you hear at the middle
052school for helping support um getting that ready for our students. So, I really appreciate them for that. Also, we just took today the youth risk behavior survey. Um, which is a survey that some of you are probably familiar with. We use the data to help our programming um to kind of see what our school culture is like. Um, and just so you know, several weeks ago, parents were sent a form to fill out giving them the option to opt out of this survey. So, we did have some families that decided to opt out, which is fine, but we did um take care of that survey today. That was a that was our third amended schedule in about a week. And so I really appreciate our teachers being flexible with our amended schedules based on some
053of the things that we're going that we've been doing. Um, next jumpstart teen teaching program. So if you were lucky enough to watch channel 3, I think it was about a week ago, Christy Pasy and Mitch Hower took their financial literacy class over to the primary school and they got to teach, their students got to teach the primary age school um students. It was a great opportunity for them. They've done that the last couple years, but it's also nice for them to reach out to media to get them there um to promote our schools just a little bit. So, I appreciate Christie. I think Christie reached out to Channel 3 and they were there and able to do a feature on our kids, which was awesome. Spring play did happen this weekend. Um I it
054was amazing. I went to it uh yesterday. I think one of the one of the activities or one of the programs that we have that not a lot of people know about is our spring play. And every single time I go, I just laugh uncontrollably. I think they're always incredibly funny. The kids doing a great job. And Eric Schmidt and Becky Rosema are our two directors who had to take over in January uh unfortunately because of our last director was not able to be here and they did an amazing job. They basically changed the play. They recasted it um and got it to the point where I thought it was really successful this weekend. So I really appreciate Erica. Eric and Becky and that is the high school. I have a quick question. Yes. Um,
055I'm I think I know the answer, but the pre-ACCT and the normal ACT, you can't do that all in the same day. No, we would not have enough teachers to be able to That's kind of what I was thinking, but I just wanted to ask and Yeah. So, ACT that day, we do offer an opportunity for 9th and 10th graders to come in and take the practice ACT as you guys know. And that's usually about 60 students that come in. So, we're able to actually lump them in two big rooms to do the practice ACT. Um, and then we have enough practice. PreACT is the ninth and tth graders. So, Okay. I kind of Okay, thanks Joe. Yep, no problem. Um, student report. Thank you, Heather. So, we'll start with the band and choir programs
056are very busy this month and next month. Um, the week of May 3rd, we have three concerts in the high school KC. Firstly, the middle school, which will be at 6:30 on May 3rd. Um, the high school on May 8th at 7 and then the primary school on May 9th throughout the day. Okay. And in my board report are times for the primary school concerts. And then state soul and ensemble. As Mr. H mentioned earlier, on April 26th, qualifying student events will travel to W Whitewater for the WSMA state soul and ensemble festival. And we've seen as a board um vocal jazz and breakfast club and then just our Woodin Ensemble, which are just a pie slice of what is actually going. So, I don't know the exact number, but we we have a high
057number of students traveling, which is awesome and we encourage and then sing and swing. So, the music boosters will be holding their annual sing and swing music fundraiser on May 17th in the high school PAC at 7 p.m. And as this is a fundraiser, there'll be a $10 charge at the door for attendees. And donations will go to help the K12 music program in various ways. Um they help out with money for scholarships for music camps and for opportunities such as that. And then for certain instruments that Mr. H players and sorry this says 6 PM 6 PM right 6 p.m. Go off what is written now what I say just making sure. Thank you. Is is Snakebite playing that night? Snake Bite is playing that night. Are they giving autographs afterwards? I mean if
058you really want one that's worth the price admission right there. Yeah it is. Y and then tradition. So, the prom court has been selected as has the theme, um, which I don't think I put in here for some reason, but anyway, prom court. Um, so the junior class nominated their prom court for the May 3rd dance. And congratulations to the following couples, Brody Rip and Sophia, Alex Brynick and Riley Wilcox, Ever Clemens and Meline Weber, Haley Nolan and Bryce Galitzky, Madison McMorris and Michaela Burmester, and Chase Moss and Schmidt. What is the theme? Do you know? Do you remember? Correct me if I'm wrong. The Great Gatsby 1920s. That's fun. Ironic because it's the 100th anniversary of that book. It is. I'm sure that's why they picked it, Kayla. Right. Well, they're all reading an
059AP Lang anyway. That's true. That's true. Speaking of AP Lang, um, in academic excellence, we have AP exams coming up in May. As if students don't have a have too much to do anyway. Um, they'll be in full swing coming up soon. And this is something that I didn't know. Around 40% of the high school student body will take an AP exam in May, which I think is awesome. That is really awesome. And they're spread over two weeks like normal and the schedule is there for those overachievers. And then as Mr. Jelik mentioned, the forensic state tournaments. So we had great success at both of our state tournaments, both WFCA and WISDA. Um the WFCA lode ranked fourth in the division three rankings. Um and then four students placed and brought home plaques to show
060their achievements. Uh Ash Cra who is the state champion in impromptu speaking, myself, Bentley Smith who is sixth place in solo acting humorous and Grant Buyer who was a semi semi finalist in pros reading. And then there's I didn't know you did radio. That's what I did. Awesome. And my brother got a lot of radio people in here. And then of course a list of upcoming dates going all the way to the end of the school year. That is a lot of dates. Thank you for doing that too. Of course because we don't always see those in the calendar unless you're really looking. So So Heather solo ensemble there are 60 students going in 31 different groups. So is that a record? I it might. I'm not sure, but that's a lot of students. That's
061really awesome. It's a record for this year. It's a record for this year. Yeah. And that's state solo ensemble like that's awesome. Thanks Caleb. Thank you. Uh curriculum. Um in each of the past board reports I've indicated the various observations that I'm doing as part of the educator effectiveness series right now and we're working our way up and we're at the high school. So I've had the good fortune of visiting choir, band, math, social studies. Uh this morning I was in this morning I was in math. um and and just wonderful things happening in every area and it's it's great to highlight that and see some of the common themes as I've noted on there. Um one of the neat observations that I did as well as I was in the gymnasium when they were
062using um for their dynamic warm-up, the heart rate monitors um which we invest in every year and it was really neat to see the personalized coaching that the teacher was able to give the students. I I'm not saying the students love wearing these, but um just just to indicate to a student, oh, you know, you're kind of you're kind of going too fast. You're a little bit out of the zone. You should actually be for the dynamic warm-up. Or hey, you know, you could speed it up a little bit because um maybe you're somebody who's who's an athlete and your heart is just at that rate where you need to kind of put in a little more effort to get in that gym class. It it was it was back in our day really neat
063to see and uh the teacher had a monitor and and every student was kind of colorcoded on there and their color would change as they entered into a different zone and um it was just nice it was it was neat to see that personalization to that component. So uh as a number of our administrators already indicated the hiring season upon us. This is just a thank you. A thank you to that. We have so many teachers that uh give up time, give up evenings with families to participate in those interviews. And so music and or yeah, music at the primary and elementary school, third grade social studies is this week as well. And so a big thank you to those educators and to our administrators that do that. Um the next one is advanced learner
064service plan outline. So, uh, if you are able to look at our board policy in serving advanced learners or gifted and talented students, you'll see in there that one of the things that is noted is just having a written kind of general outline of uh, services that we provide and um, some of the criteria that we have for engaging in those services, which it's in our board policy because that's also outlined by DPI. And so, we're just trying to refine that document. And so this will be going to the uh curriculum committee of the board in May for us to take a look at the draft form, get feedback on is something that the administrative team has been looking at for the past couple months and refining. Um something that would live on our our
065website. One thing you may not know and I just wanted to highlight from our presentation earlier today. Um so for example the the math 24 competition that really is um a a service that we're able to access because we partner with the Dane County Advanced Learner Network. We also partner with the Colombia County Advanced Learner Network. Actually that that competition is from the Colombia County Advanced Learner Network. And so there are things like math 24 that yes, it's great for helping provide an opportunity for advanced learners, but we really open that up to all kids. So for example, with that um event that occurred, we have more students than the ones that were just here who are participating in math 24 within the building and giving up their recesses to participate in that and growing
066in their math fact skills. But then we house a little internal competition and every student that would like to participate can participate and if they kind of get on one of those uh top spots, well then they can go into the to the regional competition. And so other things that happen through those opportunities are things like our script spelling bee. There's a writing contest. Um math meet that we have coming up. Is that two weeks away? the math. We're we're hosting the regional math meets for fifth and sixth grade and seventh and eighth grade um at at the high school. And and it also there's some other things that those organizations provide as opportunities that we have not engaged in yet as a district, but that's on our radar. So there's some things in the
067arts, for example, that offer opportunities to for students who um show social development in those areas that we can take part in. So, that's like our eye to the future is is looking at some of those opportunities. Nice. Um, and then my last one here. Oh, and then last was just Yep. You've heard it numerous times. State assessment season is upon us. Um, as a board member, you're probably interested in seeing some of those results. As a reminder, we'll get those results internally far before you will ever be able to see them because it's all that's under embargo and so we're not able to release the details of that brag about it until but what I just want you to know like soon as we get those results our internal teams our teacher teams will
068be digging through of that and thinking about the success and the things that contributed to that success and then areas that we need to refine and and bolster just a little sliver and I think I can share share this with you. Our early um junior ACT results came in and one of the big things that we did this year was we switched for the first time in Loi from a paper pencil format for the junior ACT to a computerbased version and and about it's about I would probably say like 60 70% of the districts in the state of Wisconsin have switched over to the computer-based version. We were hauled out and part of the reason was we were really nervous about it for our math scores. Our math scores ha have been very high and
069we like the idea of you know the paper pencil component of it. We did a review this summer. One of the things we knew is that we could do a little bit more focus on our writing uh portion of the ACT. And in conjunction with that, not just focusing on skills, but we've seen from other districts who have made the switch to the digital component that the writing scores is boosted. Well, the early results are showing that the writing went up and what we were nervous about was we were nervous the math went down would go down. Math went up, too. So, that was a that was a positive because I was going to say my son went with he really liked the writing. He didn't like the math online, but that's the same thing
070I heard. Yeah. But that's awesome. Just a little early snippet. That's what we're seeing coming in. Okay. Awesome. Thanks, Nick. And um I'll read. Oh, okay. Perfect. LCAT. So, um, Brian, Billy, and Elit have been trying and doing a has been making an effort to make inroads into the middle school and make, um, to do things with the middle school life skill teacher, Brian Bower. And so, a couple things around here for that has come to fruition finally. So, Elcat received some funding to purchase Bachen life skills books for the upcoming year's middle school life skill classes. Approximately $1,700 is spent on these books funded by DPI state opioid opioid response grant and ECAT has successfully secured funding for this purpose over the past several years. And then the second one, LCAT collaborated with the
071middle school life skills teacher Brian Bower to purchase approximately $300 of social skills instructional materials. Materials align with our board approved learning objectives and teach essential life skills to promote independence, positive behavior, peer connections. LCAT secured funding to the purchase to to purchase the requested materials through DPI's instruction, alcohol, and other drug abuse grant. And then LCAT received funding from the Department of Public Instruction through alcohol and other drug abuse grant. Again, wow, they got a lot of funding this. No, there's even more funding in here. Funding was utilized to purchase snacks for students who met with guidance counselors. All snacks followed the USDA smart snack guidelines in our wellness policy and they purchased approximately $500 worth of snack items and split those among the four school buildings. Elcat received funding from again the OPI
072state opioid response grant to complete specific projects and one of those projects was to purchase medication lock bags for each school building so they could safely secure students medications during all field trips. vacation lock bags were distributed to each school building. And then Brian has taught the in-depth program one time to the middle school student. Um the LCAT sister coalition, the prevention and response Columbia County Park has secured funding from the opioid abatement dollars that were allocated to Columbia County Ward. The funding amounts of $100,000 per year for two years will be used to cover operating costs and complete various projects. And then LCAD is excited to announce a new partnership with Kinships men kinship mentoring of Columbia County which is a nonprofit organization similar to Big Brothers and Big Sisters. And in the fall
073of 2025, Kinship Mentoring will launch a lunch buddy program here at Loi Elementary OSC. So stay tuned for more information as that comes about. That's great. Thanks for reading that, Adam. Sure. All right. Um, our district administrative report. Yeah. Uh I'm just going to hit a couple highlights. Uh the Rotary Club will be sponsoring the outstanding impact awards ceremony which is scheduled from a week from tonight. Congratulations to all students and staff who are recognized at this event. As I always share through those in attendance that evening, the educators who are recognized that night um really represent all educators within the district. So we have 14 students out of the class of 2025 who get to select an educator who has an outstanding impact on their life. Um but as we know all of our
074students could select an outstanding person educator who's had an outstanding impact on their life. Um this is just the 14 who get to do it. So they represent a wide all their colleagues at that. So um really looking forward to that event. Again that's a week from tonight. Uh if you've driven out by the school forest we have a school forest driveway. Uh and then you'll drive by and go that's it. Right? That's took that much work. It's just that's it. Um so uh but now we can do logging. Um so the loggers uh I think are are planning on coming back here um later spring or early summer. Um and they will be able to log it. So just a reminder I sent out a lot of information last fall about logging and what
075that's going to look like. Um that's going to happen, but then they will also flatten out an area um where that driveway is that I use for loading logs. And at at some point we will turn that into a parking lot so we can pull off and do that. So trying to kill two birds with one stones with the loggers. Um and finally a strategic plan refresh uh which was approved uh at the board the last board meeting. Um we the board has started that process uh by choosing 13 community members to serve on a strategic plan refresh steering committee. The first uh meeting of this committee will be on May 14th. Heather Burn will serve as the board leazison. So thanks Heather for doing that. Thanks to Steve Neander, Rachel Werforth, Diana Carl, Sky
076Baron, Emily Tenbar, Julie Reesing, Heidi Lew, Trent Schneider, Susan Gai, Pam Cunningham, Scott Pricette, Eric Bardwell, and Dave Polls for their willingness to serve our district on this committee. Awesome. Thanks, President Report. I just want to thank the community for giving me the opportunity to be on the LOI school board for another term. I absolutely love being a part of this board and I never could have imagined the emotions, the motivation and the appreciation that I have felt since given this opportunity. I will be internally grateful for the people that pushed me, inspired me, motivated me, even if it was for disagreements to begin with to put myself on the ballot. I am so appreciative of this community, the Lai School District, and all the people that I've gotten to know through this journey. I'm
077ecstatic that I get to be living this dream for another three years. We'll be having our board reorganization meeting in a couple of weeks, so there is a possibility that this will be my last board president report. I just felt that this was an opportune moment to brag about our district and thank so many people for what they have done. As many of you may or may not know, I am a huge fan of our yearly school board convention that we get to attend in Milwaukee every January. Obviously, I love all the learning opportunities, different insights, and ideas, but I think the main thing is the overwhelming feeling of pride and love I feel for our school district after attending the convention. Our district is offering so many opportunities for our students, constantly trying to
078connect and support our staff, being transparent with the community, and appreciating how supportive they are of our district. Not every district has that, and it breaks my heart. I'm also very appreciative of our school board. We have a very balanced board right now. We have seven people that have very different views, opinions, and feelings about numerous subjects. Our mutual respect for each other and having the same united goal, what is best for our students, is what makes this board so sufficient. I feel that LOI has proved that we can overcome differences, have insightful and respectful discussions, discussions, and work together for our kids. So, I want to thank the community for putting us on this board together to make the best decisions for our district. We could have not had this balanced group working for
079you if it wasn't for you putting us here. I want to thank every single person that works and or volunteers their time to our district. Yes, that is a lot of people. Many more than I ever knew of before be being on the board. The time, energy, effort, support, selflessness, and love that all these people have for our students is absolutely astounding. It is such a beautiful thing to witness. And the gratefulness that I have for all of them makes me speechless. Yes, even me speechless. Loi is not perfect, but we strive to be. I can say with confidence that because of all the wonderful people in this community and district, we will not stop trying to always be the best. Loi has the advantage of being a small-nit community while still being able to
080offer our students an amazing amount of experiences and opportunities. Our district's success is because of all of our employees, volunteers, parents, community members, and of course, our students. All of these factors depend on each other. You take one out of the equation and we would be broken. Thank you, Loi. Thanks, Heather. Heather. All right, our OSE charter approval. Yeah, I'm gonna turn this over to Mr. Shinman. Well, thank you. So, um just wanted to highlight a couple things. First of all, um starting in November, we really formed a committee um from the OSC uh board and so and then some other members as well. So we had uh Jim Morgan, our board president, governor's board president and then um Angie Lethop also served on that committee along with um Nick Carl, myself and then the
081OSC adviserss and we met seven times um from December till uh February um and well I guess a little bit into March. Um and then we Jen and I also met maybe a couple other times. Um but we uh then brought the new charter renewal um document to the OSC board for approval and then to the personnel committee um for approval and now we are here seeking uh full board approval and we had a quite a long discussion in personnel about it. So yeah, I feel confident in moving to well I guess approving well yeah approving approving At the board level, a recommendation of approval of a five-year charter school contract agreement between the Wisconsin School of Collaboration in the school district. Second, I have I have a question before we vote. Okay, one second.
082Just wait one second. Sarah Ramish, wait one second. Motion by Adam, second by who's taken it? Teresa. Okay, now more discussion. Sorry, by me again. DPI have to approve the renewal? No, we we approve it. It happens at the board level. So, we are it's an instrumentality. So, the board has to approve this. Um PPI has oversight just like any other school. But we don't have to send this to DPI. Anything else? You good? You guys, thank you for doing that. Seemed like a lot of work. We looked over in the committee and there was a lot. So, thank you guys. Thank you. Any more discussion or questions or All right. All in favor? I. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. 6. Thank you guys. A lot of work. As you said, it was a lot of
083work. Thank you for taking Thanks for providing that opportunity for our kids. Yes, amazing work with everything with OC. It's great opportunity. All right, now the fun stuff, compensation recommendations. Yeah. So, the personnel committee and facility finance committee of the board have been reviewing different compensation options over the past few months. committee is very cognizant of trying to keep our staff compensated competitively with area districts. Area districts with a consumer price index uh was last year. Um in the past years we've been trying to be competitive. Um but we also know that um when we go back that we also have to go back to referendum at some point. So it's trying to be competitive as we can be with staff and where we are with other districts, but also knowing that whatever we put
084in compensation um we have to balance those work. So that's that's the work they've been doing. Um the personnel committee started these discussions. They um they typically start looking at where CPI is and again CPI was 2.95% last year. Um and then they look at costing at different levels of compensation as it plays out one year next how it impacts a 5-year financial uh projection for the district. Um so with the CPI being at a 2.95, the committee asks the administration to look at a 2.75% increase and 3% increase a 3.25% 25% increase. The committee also just spent a lot of time looking at alternative ways to look at compensation. Um and so the last conversation we had the personnel committee um they brought forward a lot of information but didn't make a recommendation to
085this board. Uh so the board you know has all those different levels to have a conversation about this one. So, the the board has met many times in close session over compensation, like you said, twice in personnel, once in finance, and then here tonight in close session. And the motion that I want to make is uh a 3.5% compensation increase supplied as a percentage for support staff. 3.2 25 3.25. That's a 3% compensation increase for professional staff. No, a 3.25% 25% compensation increase for professional staff with the first $500 of the increase being applied for PPG completion and the remainder of the compensation being applied as a percentage for staff salaries and then a 3% compensation increase applied as a percentage on salary for director specialists coordinators and administrative staff and a 2.9% compensation increase
086for district administrators. 2.95 2.95 Thank you. You're welcome. I think Sarah seconded it. Oh, she did. Okay. I was waiting. Sorry. I did not hear that. I didn't hear. You seconded that, right? Yep. Yes, I did. That's what I thought. Can you just clarify those numbers one time? 3.25. Yes. So, my understanding the motion moist motion you have is 3.25% increase for support staff, a 3.25% 25% increase for professional staff with the first 500 going on uh from for the PPG and the rest being applied as a percentage. A 3% increase for directors um and administrators and then a 2.95 for the district administrator. Is that correct? Okay. Yep. I would I mean I think well I'm pretty sure all of us would love to give even higher percentage. Um, but personally I think I'm
087starting to lean towards more the 3% just because we do have some upcoming cost. Not that I don't think anybody is not worth way more than that, but um that's just kind of my thought process is we would do 3% across the board and then 2.95 for our district administrator. I thought we had a motion. I know. I'm just telling you just telling you my thoughts. Yeah. Yeah. But but yes is any more discussion. I'd like to stick with the motion but that's just me. Yeah. No, we can vote. All right. All in favor? I. Anyone opposed? Okay. Motion passes. I will say yes too because I do want to give them more. But so that was six to zero. Yeah. Sorry. Motion passes 6. Okay. Lonely and proud Heather. I know. I am. I'm
088so proud. You're amazing. I'm so good. But we appreciate all of you. I really would appreciate not talking about compensation for at least like well yes a year. But can we just not even mention that word because I've been like going to sleep with that in my mind. Yeah. So one of the things I didn't mention I should have mentioned before like one of the difficulties this has had for the board is we're in state budget season, right? So the big uncertainty is not knowing where the state budget's going to fall, right? We know what the governor's proposal is going to be. We don't know what the counter proposal is going to be from the joint finance committee. They're having hearings. I had a couple hearings. They'll have two more and then they will come
089out with their budget. Um and so that brings a lot of uncertainty for us. But the other piece of it is for our staff though is like one of later in this agenda when we're talking about issuing contracts and letters of insurance assurance and it means a lot to our staff when they get the contract and it shows how much they're going to be making next year versus to be determined. Um so it's a leap of faith by this board um for what's going to come hopefully out of the state budget. Um and again and then the uncertainty in the federal budget right now or what's going on at the federal level adds to that as well. Um, so it's just that's another reason why there's some angst I think across the board. Um, just
090it's just an money, but it's obviously like love to do so much more. I just want to remind people of of that's the kind of the variables that we didn't talk about in people. Well, if anybody would just get some money tree plants, we'd be fine. So, all right. Um, where are we now? Employee health contribution. Yes. So the renewal for the renewal for the current health insurance option has been prep presented to the district at a 9.9% increase. That was down from the initial estimate at 11.9, but 9.9 was plenty. Uh again, while we're happy it's not double digits. Um it faces us with a significant increase to the cost to district provide um health insurance and um the district has a flat rate for insurance. So, if the district doesn't add anything more
091and our employees bear the total cost of that um contribution and premium cost. Uh in April 2022, we went when the district went to referendum, the district included an annual increase to health insurance contribution of $50,000 for each year of the referendum. Um for this current year, the district added an additional $100,000 on top of that to make it a total 150,000. Um, the district also worked with our staff uh to create an a second plan, a high deductible plan option for staff. Um, with those additional contributions last year, the district contributed $8,500 towards the cost of a single plan and $18,825 towards the cost of a family health plan this current. Um, so again, if the district doesn't add any money, um, all the premium costs go to our staff. Um, we had a
092long conversation about this in our personnel committee on April 3rd and they unanimously moved to the full board recommendation of approving $100,000 towards the cost of employee health insurance. So that $50,000 from referendum and $50,000 um from our budget. Um we were able to discuss some things that are happening in our budget that would free up uh should free up $50,000 to make that possible. Um, and so we had a we were able to say, you know, we could have that money because of um some certain staffing things that are going on. That's going to free up a little over $50,000. So move to approve contributing an additional $100,000 toward employee health insurance for the 2025 2026 school year. And I'll second. Motion by Scott, second by Adam. Any more discussion? Yes, I've got a
093question. Um, Dr. Bryan Egg, what how is that divided? Is it divided equally between all the people that have the insurance or how does that part work? I can't remember. Yeah. So, it it's not divided equally. Um, it is a single Let me double check. I want to make sure I get the numbers right. Um the contribution will be $400 for a single plan and an $850 towards a family plan if if the district puts in 100,000. That still means some significant increases on premiums for um our staff, right? Yeah. That's also a significant increase for us. Thank you for that. Yeah, you're welcome. Good question. We do not take these conversations lightly at all. Um, all right. Any more discussion? All in favor? I. Anyone opposed? Motion passes 6. All right. Consider consideration of
094contracts and letters of assurance. Yeah. So, the board needs to take action to approve professional exempt staff contracts and issue letters of assurance to support staff for the 2526 school year. An easy one. I'll make a motion. Go ahead. Go ahead, Sarah. I'll make a motion. Okay. I'll make a motion to approve issuing 2025 2026 contracts to district professional exempt staff and to approve issuing 2025 2026 school year letters of assurance to all district support staff employees. Have a second. Motion by Sarah Ramish, second by Adam. Any more discussion? All in favor? I. I. Motion passes 60. Sorry, Sarah. Good. You're always a little delayed. You're good. I'm used to you answering quicker. All right. Um, spring school board election. Oh, sorry. No, I passed a bunch of stuff. Trying to get that stuff. Yeah,
095right. Uh, co-curricular code of conduct handbook. Yeah, Mr. J, Mr. Marshall and Miss Meers submitted updated co-curricular code for the 2526 school year. It's been updated to reflect changes, many policies. Um, and they met and had conversation about it. So, they've submitted for approval. So, it's up and ready for registration. I didn't see any major changes. Right. There weren't any major changes. Okay. No, I didn't either. I was just surprised that the change for the college visits as long as they're pre-approved. I thought that was always the case. I mean, I remember Mike, you wanted to make we wanted to emphasize that because we were dealing with some issues of it not like parents not realizing that they had to pre-approve them. So, Okay. Could you hear that? Oh, gotcha. Okay. Yep. I got them.
096Okay. I was just curious about where you were replaced uh uh homebased private or tribal schooling. Do we have I think there's a policy change because of polic policy. Okay. Yeah. So this is just we had to update that statewide. Yes. Okay. Yeah. because that had to get ch the policy had to get changed because we changed we approved these. We approved the handbooks before we enacted the um Neola policies last year if I'm not mistaken. That is correct. I thought for sure you were going to recite the policy because that's how crazy you are. I don't know. I do like that committee though. You do. Good. We might have a good chance of being elected to it again. Yeah, I'm thinking the same thing. I won't argue I won't argue with that. Does anyone
097want to make a motion to approve the amended 2526 co-curricular code of conduct? A second. Motion by Adam, second by Scott. Any more discussion? All in favor? I. Anyone opposed? Motion passes 6. I actually waited for Sarah. It's time to answer. Um, parent student handbooks. So, kind of like the last item, it's that time of year where we're finishing up one school year in the midst of planning for a new one. Handbooks that are being presented for approval are one of first steps in that preparation process when there's summaries. They're outlining any proposed changes. Um, and again, we ask our administrators to do that this time of year so they're um up and ready for as we do online registration here in May. I have a question just on it before we go to a
098motion. So I know like um Caleb is listed and no offense Caleb, you're senior, right? Correct. So does he I guess he won't be here next year. So won't that this be outdated by then anyway? Yeah, we can make those adjustments if we need. Um I think as as a district administrator, I can approve an adjustment. For example, if we would have had, you know, the board election would have changed differently than we've had that in the past where we've gone back in afterwards and changed the board members. It's not a really substantive change to the handbook that really needs board approval. So, and then my other question is I didn't read I I'll be honest, I didn't read the handbook like every single word. I really sort of, you know, foc I know I
099focused on the changes, but I just want to make sure because coming from the policy committee, are we are we confident that where it says parent because we've been really focused on parent/guardian in the policies that it's listed that way in the handbook. Does it need to match up that way? Yeah, I think most of the times it says parent guardian in the handbook. I think so. It's something they can review and look at again. Only reason I'm asking because I know we've come across that a few like on just a couple occasions. So, okay, that's all I got. Um, Joe, I don't like to make Why are your page numbers always wrong? Because I don't know what happens in the formatting when it gets moved over to PDF. It does not look like that
100in the handbook. Just so you know, the page numbers are all lined up correctly. I noticed that, too. I'm not sure why that's the case. It's the size. We just want our parents to have a really difficult time reading. That's what it makes. I noticed that, too. And it just doesn't make a 10 question quiz for everybody. So, they can't click the box until they answer all 10 questions. Heather, I ask that kind of stuff and and comment on that all the time. Like with the policies, it's because it's online, it just it lines up when it's online, but not when it's like printed out like that. I think I just like to pick on Joe, too. But Okay. I move to approve. We can do this all together, right? Correct. Move to approve the
1012526 revisions and changes to the parent student handbooks for Loi High School, middle school, elementary, OC, and primary schools. I'll second or Sarah. Go ahead. Just take a Sarah. Motion by Adam, second by Sarah Rip. Any more discussion? All in favor? I I. Anyone opposed? Motion passes 6. And then we have our building staff handbook. Yeah, same thing. So, the primary school and elementary OSC staff home books are ready to be approved as well. You know what I do? Sorry, we're going to go back, but I'm we don't have to revote or anything. I'm just curious. I noticed the which school was it? Maybe all of them. The bullying and the like harassment that was like a big was just that just not in there. I think there was there was mention of it, but
102yeah, detailed. Okay. I I that was that was probably pretty good. Thank you guys for doing that because I know that's always a big issue especially lately. So, okay, sorry. Back to the staff handbooks though. So, I'll move to approve primary school and lc staff handbooks as presented. Motion. Okay. Motion by Adam, second by Teresa. Any more discussion? Uh, all in favor? I. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. 6. Now we're doing the spring school board election. Yeah. Congratulations to Heather and Scott for winning re-election to the school board on April 1st. Uh the district always appreciates their willingness to serve their student, staff, and school community. And a big thank you to Michael Hinder who ran but would not vote on the board again for his willingness to serve. We always appreciate people willing to to
103serve their community. Um the board will hold their reorganizational meeting as Heather mentioned before on Monday, April 28th at 5:30. Congratulations you two. Thank you. Thank you. [Music] I was amazed when I went in to vote at city of Loi. The line was to the entrance and I thought, "Wow, all this for a schoolboard election." But I guess it was an important election. most important part, but the school board was the most important. It was. So, well, in all seriousness, um I know you said something during your uh president's uh message. I appreciate everybody that voted. I'm humbled and I'm honored. I look forward to serving the district. I believe that the board is in a great place. I believe the district is in an excellent place. I look forward to continuing to help guide
104the district and do that with the cooperation of the community and work with the community as well. It's a partnership. So, thank you everyone. I appreciate it. Congratulations. Well said, Scott. Thank you. All right. Um, policy reviews. Yeah. The policy committee met on April 3rd and reviewed and unanimously moved the full board recommendation of approval two policies and three administrative guidelines. So we recommend approval of those. And if I'm not mistaken, these were I mean there weren't big changes to any of these and I think there's a couple that we had to wait on. Yeah, there was there was two that we we had missed in our Niola move over to Niola. And then the administrative guidelines are dealing with field trips and medication forms um that Adria and Chanel Spam have worked had revised
105um to make it more clear for our parents and cut down a little bit on paperwork combining two forms to one for our high schoolers. Make a motion to approve the administrative guidelines and policy revisions as presented. Can I actually ask a question about this? Before we do that, I'll second. Yeah, let's hold on. Let's get the motion on the table. Second. Okay. Motion by Adam, second by Scott. Any more discussion? So, I wondered like uh for example, under 5421 the which is the grading system. Okay. So, the verbiage that's been removed, um, why is this removed? Because we have it in all of our other policies. This is not our updated verbiage. Okay. And so, we have it in all the a bunch of other policy. Yeah. Okay. And so, the recommendation from Neil
106was just to take it out because it's just it's redundant. It's throughout our policy man. Oh, I think I asked the same thing. Good question. Any more discussion? All in favor? I I uh anyone opposed? Motion passes 6. And we got gifts and donations. I'll make a motion to accept with great gratitude the donation of $1,200 from the Ice Age Trail Alliance to be distributed between Summer Saunters, great program. Primary school hiking club, another great program. And middle school trailers, another great program, and the high school hiking club, another great program. I'll second. Motion by Adam, second by Sarah Ramish. Any more discussion? Except thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All in favor? I I. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. 6. We got our committee reports. We will start with our CIA 5. Representative Adam. Uh
107C5. Yes, I went to C5. What did we talk about? Sorry. Um we did we finalized Jeremy's contract. That was a big chunk of the meeting. And then we did the regular business stuff. They didn't have any special guests or anything like that. He talked about their superintendent meeting, but that was about it. There was no They talk about our superintendent or No, I was at the meeting. I There was no big presentation. Okay. Well, thank you for doing that though. Uh our co-curricular items and report. All right. Golf. On Thursday, April golf. April 10th, the varsity golf team hosted the conference mini meet at the Loi Golf Club. Loi came in second, finishing 10 strokes behind first place Cambridge. The varsity team will travel to Trapper's turn for an invitational today, which Heather updated
108me and our kids played in. My son did well. He did. He's going to be a happy camper. We'll see. Macy was the offer that the best score on Loi. Uh lacrosse. Uh the co-op lacrosse team is off to a zero and two start losing both games to conference opponents. They started the season with a 4 and4 loss to Wanaki followed by a 12-0 loss to Deorest forensics. On April 5th, the forensics team participated in the WFCA state tournament. The team took fourth place overall with senior Bentley Smith taking sixth place in solo humorous acting, senior Caleb Rodzel taking fourth place in radio news reporting, and sophomore Ash Crawl taking home first place in impromptu speaking. Amazing. This past weekend, the team participated in the WISDA state festival with 17 performances earning gold. That's really
109good. Play. This past weekend, Loai High School students put on a performance of The Day the Internet Died. The performance featured 25 students between the cast and crew and was met with rave reviews. Baseball. The Loi baseball team is off to a two-1 start with a conference record of 1 and one. They open the season with a 13-9 win over McFarland, followed by a 75 win at home over Lakeside Lutheran. This past Thursday, they lost to Lakeside 06. Uh they head to Westfield tonight and to Wisconsin Heights on Thursday. Softball. The softball team is off to a two-0 start with both wins coming against conference opponents. They open the season with a two-1 win over Lake Mills followed by a 5-0 win at home over Columbus. They host Sock Prairie for a non-conference game tonight
110return before returning to conference play against Lakeside Bernard on Tuesday and Poet on Thursday. Girls soccer. The LOI girls soccer team is currently 3 and 0. They open their season with a 1-0 win over Breezeburg, followed by a 7-2 win over East Troy and an 8-0 win over Cambridge Deerfield Waterlue. The soccer team will host Adams Friendship on Thursday and Madison Lallet next Monday before opening conference play at home against Lakeside Lutheran next Tuesday. Track and field on Tuesday, April 5th. The track team participated in the Wisconsin State Indoor Track and Field Championships. Senior Olivia Hay Roth placed sixth in the girls high jump. This past past Tuesday, the track team participated in the Deerfield Early Season quad with the both both the boys and girls teams finishing in first place. Loi will host the
111Loi Invitational tomorrow night. That's a lot of activity. Why not? Thank you for doing all that, reading it. Uh, OSC. Okay, it's brief, but lots of exciting things happened in the month of March. And I guess first of all, the big thing that happened tonight was that the charter was approved unanimously for the next five years. So, that's very exciting. Um, March 20th was fine arts night and uh along with that was the annual raffle. It was a paperless um event which I don't know if that I wasn't able to go. Was that good or bad? Yeah, I think we had I mean we offered if people wanted a paper copy we could but yeah um I think the feedback was well people did not request that. So I think they were pretty happy. So
112you're talking paper tickets gone. Yeah. Paper programs, paper. We had a lot of uh normally like to go through the fine arts night a lot of times we have a map we have program we all that through s'more and QR codes. Yeah, I guess I never because I just went as an aunt, you know, and um I didn't even like think about that. So, yeah, that's probably a good idea and save some money and trees and yeah, um March 21st the OSC lottery took place, which was exciting. We haven't needed one for a few years and there were 41 applicants for 34 spots. So, um I don't know if have this have the people been notified and Okay, so that happened. Um what else did I want to mention? Uh well, the next meeting is
113this Wednesday, um April 16th at 3:15. And the other thing is actually a question for Eric is what are the updates on the jelly? Great. I was just going to tell you. So May 8th, I don't have that. May 8th is project night and the jelly will be sold at project night. So come to project night. May 8th to get your OSC lemonade jelly. And I have sampled it and it's delicious. I have too. It's delicious. Tastes just like the OSC lemonade. It's amazing. So forget the project. Just go get the jelly. Well, I think you should do both. What' you say, Sarah? No, I was just wondering what is I It kind of broke out. What is the date for fine arts night? I want to make sure I get to that. Project night
114is May 8th at what time? Thank you. It is at starts at 5, doesn't it? Usually I think so. It is that's my time is longer than yours. Um so I think it I will have to get back. I will find out and tell you. I think it's 5 to seven. Usually I think five to seven. Awesome. Thank you. Sure. All right, our board committee reports. We will start with personnel. Personnel committee met on April 3rd. The majority of the time was spent discussing issues that we've already acted upon tonight, including insurance renewal and compensation. No, you were not supposed to say that word for a while. I said it. There were a few other things that were discussed. We reviewed the staff meeting in session where members of the committee were updated on what
115was was said, members that weren't there. It's always good information to get. It helps to guide us in the decisions that we that we make. We talked about base pay, which per referendum increased by $1,000. Support staff starting pay. We're fortunate enough to be able to make an increase in that which will begin this summer. 50 cents an hour. We looked at substitute teacher pay. And what we did was we looked at fence post uh neighbors. We looked at loyal subs in Loi versus the potential of using an agency. Uh we're going to look for some further information before we make any final decision regarding uh how we proceed with substitute teacher pay. And then again, the insurance renewal, $50,000 per referendum. And then we were able to brainstorm and come up with an additional
116$50,000 that we would could put towards that, which we agreed to tonight. And then that other issue that Heather won't mention. Yeah, that was what we talked about. I still have a headache right now. Thank you. Uh curriculum, which is Terry, isn't it? Does anybody want to give an update if you want. So, just a few things that we discussed. Uh we had our world language department update um where Jim Mckeler gave an update on the Spanish uh exchange program cap enrollment which is Spanish 5 our our dual enrollment with W Oshkosh and was excited that um there's right now it's looking like there'll be 19 students in that class next year which will be the high enroll highest enrollment we've had so far in the three years that we've offered it as a um
117just a reminder that students if they earn a B or above in that course that they can earn up to 16 uh retro college credits in the course. So, it's just a wonderful opportunity. Um we talked about expansion hopes um heritage speaker class and like I said the cap update. We had an update from Jen Morgan, our ESL specialist in the district. Just um enrollment numbers. We do this annually. 11 students currently at the primary school, nine at the elementary, five at the middle, and 19 at the high school. She talked about Can you read off the different languages though? It's not just Spanish. Uh, correct. There's five different um Wait, hold on. Let me get back. Language diversity. Oh, there it is. Yeah. Six different Oh, did you want to Yeah. six different home
118languages uh including like Spanish, Mong, uh Mandarin, Albanian, etc. uh spoken in the school district of Lodi. Uh and then it just talks about the support and uh approach for for Jen and and her position, what that looks like and um some new structures that we are, you know, as we've had this position in the district, we're continually looking at how she can um continue to collaborate with our teachers and our our building principles um as she tries to meet the needs across four buildings, which can be challenging, right? Um so every year she gives an annual update. Uh and then the OSE update which a lot of the the information focused around what you have recently shared and uh we had our sixth grade social studies pilot uh TCI resources is happening right now.
119So we received an update on that and we'll discuss that in further depth for a possible um adoption proposal at our next meeting. And that was it. Awesome. Thanks, Nick. I have a I just have a quick question. Um, what was the fifth language that was mentioned? The last one. Um, there's actually six, I think. Spanish, M. I don't know what this is. Guratti, Guratti, Guratti, Mandarin, Albanian, and Yoruba. Those. Okay. And then what happens with the because Jenna is for our Spanish speaking, correct? I mean, what happens with the other languages? Is there a service that we use like so Jen supports across Jen supports across the spectrum. Her her skill set does rely um when it comes to just uh translation services and and and being her speaking ability is in Spanish. However,
120she does have a number of resources she uses to help um in these other areas. We do as a district um also partner with a phone service where we are able to um have access to pretty much any language that someone would come in and and want to speak to one of our teachers or or our front office. It's called Acutrans. Um so that's another service that we have um access to as a district. Okay. Yeah, that's what I kind of thought because that's what we use in the nursing home. If it's, you know, a a language that we can't translate, it's a service that we use by phone. Yes. Yep. And so we have that we have that similar a similar service for that in um certain situations. Thank you. Thanks, Nick. Um uh
121facility and finance. Uh let's take it back to students. SAPS club came in and talked to facility and finance. So Katie Shilling and Emily Tenbarge gave a presentation on their issue that they have on the bathroom doors that open at the high school according to them incorrectly and the relative changes that individuals experience entering the toilet area in that space. Emily, Katie and Emily went on to present to the committee potential solutions. That's where they're at in that space to allow for more space to enter the bathroom area and the costs of those solutions. The committee went on to engage in a discussion of the current bathroom doors, how they're util utilized, the safety concerns, and the cost of making those changes. And then administration will engage in maintenance department to look at exploring potential
122bids to resolve the issue. We talked about student Chromebook purchases, which was in um consent agenda. Thank you. Yeah. And then um we talked about running the fiber because Sock Street is under construction. There's a chance we could change our fiber that runs from the other buildings down to this building. And right now it goes over the railroad instead of under the railroad, which just blew my mind. It's a nightmare. But there's a chance that we could do something else. And so that was a discussion. We didn't make any decisions on that. the applied population study. We had had a long discussion about that which we approved in consent agenda. We're still do doing communication. We're still having we're still having discussions not communication discussion on batting cages and figuring out how to add more
123batting cages and figuring out how to pay for those batting cages. And then we recognized um figured out how to recognize someone who made a donation to the playground at the less. All right. Thank you. Uh policy. Policy. We went through them all. Okay. All right. Thank you guys. And let's see our future meetings. So our next regular school board meeting will be Monday, May 12th at 5:30 close session, 6:30 open session. Our reorganization meeting is going to be Monday, April 28th at 5:30. our personnel committee. Oh, all of our committee meetings will actually be be determined after the oh school. Well, after the reorganization meeting. Okay. Okay. So, we don't have any nothing scheduled at this point because then we'll kind of once we figure out who's on the committee, then we'll figure out
124when people can meet. So, do we need to go back into close session? No. Yeah. So, there's there's no meeting tomorrow. There are no committee meetings until the after the reorganization meeting. Okay. Okay. So, typically we don't have we have the first ones in the beginning of April, but because personnel will have had a meet to talk about compensation, but because you just don't know what's going to happen with the election, we typically don't have any in April because the board reorganizes and brings their new members on and you guys did something scheduled for tomorrow. No. Okay. Well, meeting Wednesday, but Oh, yes. OC might have a meeting. Yeah, OC does on Wednesday, right? That still is happening. Okay. All right. So, next for us, guys is April 28th. Be there. Is it my time
125now? Can I make Can I ask a question? Sure. Make a comment. Sorry. Um, the meeting the reorganization starting at 5:30 on Monday. I cannot be here at 5:30. I tried letting my student Well, never mind. I was trying to be here on time, but they love class and they won't leave. So, fantastic. I just I can't Can people can we do later? I mean, we can we can change. Oh, it's on it's on Tuesday now or it's on Monday. Monday. Mo won't be here. On Monday. Mo is not going to be here. We could do it at 6. We just need to let Terry Hag know who's going to join us virtually. So is not going to be here. So we will all have our hair on fire running around crazy not knowing what
126to do. But I guess we'll have to get through this and it's just us for the reorg meeting. Right. Right. Nobody else has to come. Okay. Is 6:00 okay or do we do it later? Okay. Plenty fine. Is that going to be okay with everyone else? We still have to tell Terry. Make sure everyone here is 6 o'clock going to be okay to be here if I It's a pretty quick meeting usually. Terry did did ahead of time say what her committee choices were and stuff so in case she can't make it. Okay. We do have that information. Okay. Okay. If you guys don't mind. Sure. No problem. Okay. Is is everybody good with six? Okay. All right. Well, let's change that to six then for now and then we'll make sure that Terry can
127be there, too. But any Yeah. Okay. And I don't think we have to go back to closed. And can I make a motion to adjurnn? Yes, you can. that I so move to make a motion toward. Motion by Sarah Ramish, second by Scott. All in favor? I I Anyone opposed? I don't think so. Motion passes 6. Ajourn. Thank you. Thanks everybody.