001e e e reconvene and we're going to start the meeting with our taking positive steps of service award yes so uh The Breakfast Club is getting a taking positive step for service award Breakfast Club is an award-winning co-curricular extension of the coral program at loai high school meeting every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 7: a.m. except as we uh students audition for The Ensemble in the fall and performed vocal Jazz and contemporary Acappella music through the school year they sing at school concerts community outreach events district and state Sol Ensemble music festivals and our regulars at the Mad City Acappella Summit there also one of the three musical acts from across the state chosen perform of the State education convention this year they did a great job of representing our district with Loi Pride um
002and they had a bunch of groupies from our board who save seeds so fun uh students in this group are not only high level musicians but are also Varsity athletes AP Scholars school leaders School Board me school board members um and mock trial all those things there a variety of activities in L High School the success of this group has gained not only from their hard work and dedication but their camaraderie and community that they share with each other uh the performance today is featuring Duke Ellington's Jazz standard It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing correct corre all right get out of the way [Music] what what good [Music] is it ain't Us in something sweet [Music] the [Music] M the there something that makes the T [Music] God that do
003[Music] mean nothing you got mean nothing give that just give it everything you got it don't mean a [Music] that was excellent you guys so entertaining we could just listen to I know don't really have to do the rest of the agenda so uh again thank you so much for being here and for representing Loi so well down State education convention I have gone to many meetings since then and every single meeting I've had somebody come up and comment on how good this group was so you represented us very well so thank you and I have a certificate for each of you so when I call your name uh please come forward I'll give you the taking positive steps for service word certificate uh we couldn't pay you to go to the um fit education
004convention but we're going to give you 100 Grand all right so Grant buyer Jaylen [Music] BR stay here Jan [Applause] H [Applause] Kyle Liam [Music] Johnson Andy [Applause] L Chase [Music] Simon Rick kaleel Sasha rinsky Katy Shilling Blake Simpson [Applause] Bley Smith don't tell me mine's in the mail Emily pbar is he Whi [Music] you everybody perfect nice job Marine Palmer and one special thank you to their director obviously Kate McCrae def how many of you guys are seniors too [Music] many got big shoes to film Mr can we have them come like every ex meeting for a little busy right so bunch of track practice tonight and had mock trial this weekend and forensics this coming weekend this coming weekend baseball and softball all those things start up so I'm just curious I notice
005when you're singing the way you're looking at each other is that something that's planed is something that is just spontaneous it's I just I just noticed that you're all you're all doing I'm just curious I guess we kind of have our people that we look at when we sing like I guess we kind of each look at each other but just stay together I think we try and look at each other to make sure that we're alling and smiling and having fun so yeah connected thank you they're not always quite this Smiley when I see him walking in at 5 to minute after s they are thanks everybody thank you you guys take we take your picture in front of Pride side [Music] we weing Sarah [Music] us um I also we also uh forgot
006we also get this huge plaque yeah it's huge for performing at the State education Convention as well so squish in so you there you go than you guys thank you better than the TR thank you thank you they are awesome they're pretty great so we have one more taking positive step for service award um I lost the candy bar though uhoh did you eat it yeah that was it yeah I on camera limited Supply you want you get the plaque but we know where you're really going I was going to say she's got a stash he does I should so uh the other person we have for taking positive step for service award Walsh so I'm gonna have Derek psor yeah come on up I'm sure that's where you want to be is right front
007the center all right so sah we would like to take a moment to express our heartfelt gratitude to Melissa wals for her incredible dedication and gener and organizing meals for our teachers at the middle school and high school uh for parent teachers conferences in February Melissa's thoughtful efforts ensured that our hardworking Educators were wellfed and cared for during these long and demanding days her commitment to supporting our staff not only provided nourishment but also a deep sense of appreciation and encouragement reminding us all of the Power of our community uh Melissa Melissa's willingness to step up coordinate and provide such a meaningful gesture speaks volumes about her support of our teachers we would also like to express express our gratitude to all the families that generously donated food money or time to support our teachers
008on behalf of the middle and high school we extend our sincerest thanks to Melissa for her generosity and unwavering support we are truly grateful grateful for all that she has done so did you want to add you are welcome thank you I just wanted to make sure that um our teachers at the middle school and high school felt supported um there's a group of parents that do this at the primary and Elementary and um when I had kids in middle school and high school I took the opportunity to contact the principles and ask if I could do that for them so there's a lot of people behind the scenes that make it happen so um but I'm happy to head it up and read that for us so it is really our high school teachers
009favorite meal I'm sure it is it it does really mean a lot for our staff to not have to you know it's a long day to not have to wake up and think about I got to make lunch and I got to make dinner and you know not only that but also feel supported supported by you know our community and by by our parents so it really I think creates a nice nice team for everything and there are some teachers that come down more than once so good and principles and principles you also take all the tickets you're always taking tickets oh yeah tickets ticket lady ticket lady and everything she's everywhere a cute picture so the Ice Age Trail Alliance so if people are looking at the agenda though I just wanted them to
010ice H Trail uh was going to do this month but they've had a couple things come up so we're going to do that next month okay they don't want to compete with the singers [Laughter] okay and obviously our presentation was s so we do have public input tonight um the purpose of the public input agenda item is for Citizens and staff of the school district of L to provide comments on any agenda item or to publicly address the board of education on items that pertain to school business the portion of the meeting during which the comment of the public is invited shall be limited to 10 people unless extended by a vote of the board prior to the beginning a public input portion of the meeting the amount of time allowed to each speaker will
011generally not exceed 3 minutes if the speaker has questions for the board they will be duly noted and responses will be provided in an appropriate manner but the board cannot respond to individual questions or individual comments as part of the public input agenda item as an additional reminder the board cannot take action on any item that is brought forth during the public input session or in any item that was not posted on the meeting agenda if you are providing comments we would merely ask that you please come to the microphone and state your name and Municipality of residents and I do want to say that tonight we actually um I am going to extend it they did request to extend public input I'm going to do five minutes instead of three um that is normally
012not always going to be the case it's there's several reasons for it one of them is we don't have anyone else and we do have time for it tonight but I do want to state that normally it will be 3 minutes but um we are going to extend it to 5 tonight so if you want to come up and introduce yourself that would be great that table there that would be perfect thank you well thank you for extending it I did not expect that so I appreciate that all right um should I just start talking uh your name and then where um Tyler Haro I'm in the town of Loa I guess out in Harmony Grove okay good all right thank you all right um am I free to start yep okay did you set
013a time okay so five minutes five minutes should be plenty um so thank you for extending that time to me I appreciate that um so ladies and gentlemen of the school board my name is Tyler Haro as I previously said I come before you today as a representative of both um of our concerned children and parents in our community all of whom are deeply troubled by the ongoing bullying and harassment issues that have not been adequately addressed in our district these issues do not only stem from inappropriate actions by students but also inappropriate actions from the staff that support and encourage ongoing harassment and bullying before I get started tonight I want to share a quick statement from a letter that's called the dear colleague letters um it is a letter published by the US
014Department of Education um specifically the special education and rehabilitative services department bowling of a student by another student for any reason cannot be tolerated in our school bowling is no longer dismissed as an ordinary part of growing up and every effort should be made to structure environments and provide support to students and staff so that buling does not occur to better understand the concerns of our community I reached out to local parents and Guardians through social media specifically Facebook some of you may have seen that post already um I asked them to share their experiences and thoughts on how they felt the school was currently handling any bowling or harassment issues U many of the parents commented um While others reached out directly who are not comfortable to post on Facebook um many shared heartbreaking
015stories of how their children have been subject subjected to bullying only to see little to no action taken by the district to address these concerns I'm going to share some of these situations that my own children have experienced and also those of the community um while you listen to these stories I ask you to consider if any of these scenarios would be acceptable um the first feedback I received or comment was a student that was less than 12 year old 12 years old was choked by another student on a bus the video on the bus revealed this occurred and the student was allowed to keep riding the same bus um I had one set of parents tell me that they chose to pull their kids out of our school district and send them to a
016different School District they drive them to a different School District there was several comments of members who pulled their kids out altogether of in-person schooling in favor of online schooling um another situation a teacher um Aid told a student to will cry about it when the student started crying when he was pushed down to the ground a fifth grade teacher told a parent at another student of another student during teacher conferences that a certain student acts bad because he came from a bad home life I think that's a blatant violation of student privacy and a disgusting act that encourages the bullying and harassment that I talk about today um there were several other stories about Middle School boys and I find this to be the most alarming there were several other stories about middle school
017boys who openly talked about raping slaves during a history lesson if they own them during that time period there were also reports that several Middle School boys have told some girls in our school district of loai that they were going to rape them in addition to these concerns there's a student in the high school and I will um cut this part short there's a student in our high school that has a known record of sexual assault and this student still goes to our district he been allowed to remain in our district he is allowed to remain as a participant in sports and I ask you um would you would you or do you feel safe allowing teenage girls to go to our high school every day knowing that there is a sexual predator in their
018presence every day while these comments shared on my Facebook page highlighted a variety of bullying and harassment experiences they all had one thing in common the overwhelming sense that these issues were not being properly addressed by the school district what's more alarming is that many of the feedback and comments that I have received from the community were about students who have disabilities that are protected under the individuals individual with disabilities Education Act and the American with Disabilities Act these issues can no longer be ignored I respectfully urge the school board to convene and I after I heard the rules I don't know if this is going to work or not but I respectfully urge the school board to convene a special community meeting where parents students and staff can openly share their concerns and together
019we can work towards a resolution many members of the community including myself have great ideas and would like the opportunity to come together to solve these issues um I welcome anyone on the school board or in the district to reach out to me directly so we can get started on a resolution uh thank you for your time and attention to the surge matter perfect perfect timing thank you I told you I could get her done all right thank you than you thank youate all right now we're going to move on to our consent agenda items we have our vouchers our credit cards and our check listings we have our fundrais reports we have a junior class bake sale March 19th and 20th Junior parents March 19th and 20th you're bacon when you I just have
020one correction here go ahead and read through the fundraiser here well do you want to well it's it says baseball BR sale supposed to be softball BR sale just because it looks like baseball has three rers and not supposed to have three baseball BR it should say softball BR sale okay so we got junior class fake sale we got the track and field um sales of food items we got the golf team brand we have baseball youth youth baseball clinic and then we have a baseball text call fundraiser and then we have the softball brought and big sale okay and then we do not have any fundraiser reports we do not have any field trip request we have um from facility and finance we have our Lee Recreation contract for Elementary OS playground we have
021our middle school network cabling upgrade we have programmed cleaning three-year contract the canons Mowing and maintenance lawn contract and we have um we went over our 25 26 school fees and then um for culum we have education for employment plan under other we had a Wednesday night activity request and then we have four start now college applications and come on computer you can do it I didn't see that hold on sorry guys yeah that was just added today oh sorry never mind okay we do not have any retirements um we have three resignations long-term substitute special EA for transition program volunteer softball coach and assistant golf coach under co-curricular we have a um change for our thaan exchange co-curricular co-coordinators contract we have JV softball coach Spanish ex exchange trip Co coordinator and change for
022Thailand exchange co-coordinator contractor you know what say that really fast five times why is on there different one is for Thailand my bad it should be Spanish right oh yeah apologize I think the attachments say that so apologies okay and then we do have um a lifeguard for crew under regular staff we have increas in special education assistant Elementary osc special education assistant and a long-term middle school special education substitute teacher under Personnel we have one two three four five six seven seven seven leave without pay request okay so I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented with the addition of the approval of Stacy and I'm not going to say this name right redit as long-term uh middle school special education substitute teacher the approval of the start college now applications
023in the baseball brought and baseball softball softball softball sorry I did hear that didn't say I will second that just clarifying that it's softball BR so motion by Terry second by Sarah ramish any more discussion all in favor anyone opposed motion pass is 70 oh I'm just skipping through stuff all right our administrative reports and we are going to start with primary school all right good evening um we are beginning to start looking at our class planning for next year already uh we have an optional placement form that families can fill out until March 14th um that is one piece of added information that we use in combination with the other ones that are listed there you can see some cute pictures of the kids from the 100th day of class does that um bully
024prevention student and family presentation one of the pieces of feedback we had from last Springs family perception is that families wanted to know more about our bowling procedures um so Mr shun and myself and Miss K Bar and Mrs bilky work together on putting together a a presentation for families on Monday February 24th um we started in the morning with a video announcement for our students defining what bowling is uh what they can do if there's a situation of bowling and then some of the things we do to prevent that and then from this meeting um we are working together to have a parents um Team to look at some of the different procedures that we're currently doing and how we can make adjustments from that Eric do you want to do you have this
025on your too anything else just I have it on mind too I just I guess the biggest thing too besides the video announcement is we I have in mind shared um the presentation that we gave to families as well so was it well attended was there a lot of families there we had nine families nine families for the bulying presentation we had nine and then we also did it as a sore because we wanted other families it's in our newsletter so families can look at the direct link and so we had I think 21 more people I think we're looking at the presentation too so um also in pillar two one of the things that we wanted to try to do is find that student teacher connection and so we just recently um did this
026with our students they had a picture of all of the different staff members certified and support staff and they uh the students could Circle one to five staff members that they felt a special connection to either something they felt really positive to or something that they you know maybe sad about and from here what we're going to do is really look to identify to make sure that kids have that connection with an adult and if there are any students that maybe don't have a lot of adults that they chose we can very intentionally plan and think about that but it was fascinating to see how students students as a begun to like gather the information um it could be their current teacher it could be assistants that they're working outside on the playground it could
027be their school family adult that they had um be a teacher that their siblings had it's just it's fascinating just to see those connections so it's a really good do some more to come on that we're still um in the process of collecting all that um and then the last thing um oh we have a March Madness right now for our staff we have a cornhole competition that we are currently working on so we're trying to get down to see who that is and we'll have the final competition March 31st so um just something exciting there oh I forgot I should have this one I want to share too um I'm longer than I typically s um for pillar five we did an initial reunification training um with the certified staff anyone that was not
028a part of the keys to literacy training and so really it was just to build a general understanding of the responsibilities our staff would take if we had to reunify um where people using the primary school building and so the staff um they know what their position would be and have begun to see what that would look like and we're going to be doing some more training um Monday May 12th and then also May 16th so beginning rest for that thank you thanks um Elementary osc hello thank you so a couple things I wanted to highlight first of all special thanks to Nick Carl and to Derek perzborn but also to Emily perzborn and Amy Meyer for welcoming us to the middle school we had our fifth grade uh teachers so Chris mcneel Nicki shman
029Garrett shriber um and um Sharon wherer and then also Alli Stone and Carly zck from OC um all of us went over and we were able to witness math in action by some expert teachers and it's just really the goal of the visit was just to help us make sure that we're setting up students for transition for Success um and so we understand that each year um has different requirements um what's expected of of kids and and what they're learning but at the same time we want to be aware what that transition looks like and feels like for students um so that we can make sure we're setting them up for success um it was also very fun to see former students um but it was a great experience also U mark your calendars So
030Fine Arts night Thursday March 20th um you can come and see um students performing um the schedules there and then also just the artwork that they've been doing in art will be um it's blacklight um artwork so you're going to have to go in the little theater to see that but then also each classroom will have artwork displayed in the hallways um the theme is amazing animals um um and so we're really excited about that so the performances it says starts at 5 so is the whole thing 5 to S yep so 5 to 7 if I mean obviously 4:45 to 7 would be great but um because some families need to be there a little early to get their kids ready um but then there're also in the small gym OC is going to
031have be selling um pizza and subs and then there'll be the raffle in there as well and so there's a lot going on that night um just a little update on student behavior and safety just wanted to share last year one of our focuses of our impact team was really the month of February and seeing if we can help um incidence Behavior incidences go down so we saw a really nice decrease um 43% so a good uh attributing part to that I really feel like is um we you know we're on our second year of Our Community Values um those expectations have really be gotten clear um you know obviously we've really continued to focus on building connections and relationships with students um but we had a really good month um which is technically normally
032one of the most difficult months in February so um but we also did some other kindness things that we tried to really promote so have some pictures of students there for you and ways that they reached out and we tried to recognize them as well also included the um bullying prevention presentation that we gave and the video that I shared with our students that morning as well um also shared that information with our staff to so we're all on the same page there and then we did have our February kindness calendar going on um but I wanted to um let you know that I'm just so impressed with the different ways that staff care for each other and um I think sometimes we see it in big ways like a calendar or something like that
033but there's a lot of little ways um and so um just wanted to highlight those as well um and think those um parents as well who stocked things for our parent teacher conferences um um and then the last part is just our playground progress so which you kind of got to hear more about but we are super excited so thank you thank you l Middle School all right good evening board I'm gonna skip down to the battle of the books and I just want to thank Paula ton for organizing this so one of the things that she does is organizes some opportunities for some of our Advanced Learners one of them is the Anthology project which has to do with writing and art this one has to do with reading so um these three students
034are taking part of uh battle the books and it's put on by the Wisconsin education or media and Technology Association um and they read 20 books and they work on some Statewide quizzes and I don't know I'm not 100% familiar with this I'm still learning exactly about it but uh you know another opportunity for our kids especially those that are very interested in Reading Mr bsor how long do they have is this like from the beginning of the year to read those 20 books in prepare for yeah starts early in the year a week just curious what it you know how long they had to read those books yeah um another thing I want to bring to light is another extended opportunity called Blended agriculture that Michelle how organizes in the morning and students actually
035come before school to be a part of this organization and it's really our opportunity to teach our students about egg whether it's businesses uh and they'll go on some field trips throughout the year to some businesses and learn about uh the economic side of Agriculture um but they're also in this one they are learning um about different cheeses and taste and texture so also and culinary arts is a part of that too so just awesome extensions and opportunities for our kids that they're willing to come at like 7:15 in the morning to learn about which says a lot about the engagement that Miss how creates with that um going down to pillar number two Mr jnick going to hit on this too but we are installing feminine hygiene in products in or uh dispensers in
036all of our girls restrooms and really Middle School is a time of change a time when girls are learning to U work with their menstruation cycle and we don't want anybody to be at a disadvantage or worried about uh that during the school day or worried about having access to products so that's something that we've partnered with the high school and their saps team which uh Mr jelnick is going to talk a little bit about um to install those in Lo Middle School uh also acknowledge our chess club so on Thursday mornings we have opportunities for kids we have a a one hour well it's 50 minutes called flex and during that time students receive academic support on their grade level work but if they all caught up they have everything done and they're doing
037well they have opportunities to have some choices some of the choices are like go to the gym some people go to F fa another choice is chess club it's just you know it's an opportunity our our LMC is full of 24 kids we have enough boards for that and it's pretty much full every single Thursday morning when there's chess club and it's just an opportunity for kids to come to learn some people are just learning about it some people think they're masters of it um it's really good for them uh to be able to come and socialize and have that in common common time to to meet and hang out um I also want to uh acknowledge our movie outing uh so we have a student celebration team and they organize some awesome opportunities whether
038they're in school with some speakers and things like that um this time last was last week or within the last two weeks uh they went and saw Mufasa at the Portage Theater uh which is a great opportunity for our students because not all of our students have this opportunity um so it's really great for them to to learn about theater etiquette um to learn to go order food and how how you act in a theater so it's a really great opport to have some entertainment but it's a great opportunity for them to learn about having that experience as well um going on to student of the month I want to say congratulations to these students uh for being nominated for respects um each team grade level team sixth seventh and eighth grade nominates one and
039our Specialists nominate one so congratulations to these students because they make loai Middle School a great place for all students whether that's staff whether that's students their peers um they just make it an accepting environment uh with their respect uh moving on to pillar four is District Workforce our SWAT team which stands for staff wellness and appreciation team organizes some sometimes it's inside fun they went on an axe throwing um to an axe throwing Place earlier this year but this time they had a game night right after school um and there was not a lot of people there but I said they said they're the few but Mighty uh that were in attendance for that and then just want to also just acknowledge another opportunity that we took advantage of we have a Seth landal
040is and his family are having a baby in April and we just took a little time to celebrate with a little with a little uh baby shower for him so remind me again what he teaches he teaches seventh grade math language arts in the LT congratulations to them maybe SWAT needs to do cornhall and then they can challenge the primary school match up or I know a really good card game that we learned thank you uh High School all right thanks hea um first of all there are some emails here I'm not going to read through all of them but they're recognizing some of our staff members uh the first one is Mr haed who uh is the director of our pet band and they had an opportunity to go to a hockey game I
041think you call it not hockey match hockey game um and it was a I I went and watched them and it was amazing I think there was a scheduling mistake because lalet band was there too um but it ended up turning out pretty cool because they would take turns and then they actually played the last song together this person recognized it and he thought it was amazing and reached out to Doug with this email um also Mr Sheldon there's a couple emails um talking a little bit about powerlifting which is a new club that we introduced in the last couple years really long email that you can read through but just it basically tells you how much that person felt really strongly about Mr Sheldon and the work that he did with his daughter and
042how it not only approved her strength but also improved her swimming so I I thought I'd I'd share those with you um I asked Mr Sheldon and the parents if it was okay so feel free to read through those I like how you plan on words how strongly he with the power lifting nice job um we are we are going to be proctoring the ACT tomorrow so March 11th is our at Act date and that is um all the way across the state of Wisconsin um so we have been doing some things during the month of February leading up to it it's pretty small as far as the picture but these are some of the things that we've been doing with juniors in junior home rooms we also are going to be giving our nth
043and 10th graders just like we have in the last couple years an opportunity to take the Practice Act um we have a team that thinks about everything related to act leading up to it so I appreciate all the people that put in a ton of effort to get those things ready so that will happen tomorrow so for those people that are out there 12th graders you do not need to come to school and any nth and 10th graders that are not taking the Practice Act you get to stay home as well tomorrow um student recognitions there's a few things that Caleb is going to cover um we do have we had District soul and Ensemble and state coming up um of the 60 LHS students in 31 separate events have advanced to state from District
044which is amazing I think so there's going to be huge representation from L high school and lots of different events Caleb's going to talk a little bit about Mo trial but I have a feeling he is not going to talk about one aspect of mock trial and that is he was voted as one of the top lawyers again in the state of Wisconsin and I noticed that wasn't in his report so mention that congratulations surprised yes so they had they had a great season he'll talk more about it um forensics lots of competition at serenic they were the capital conference Champs and then you can see all the details including some of the students and some of the awards that they won we did have some State wrestlers and that'll probably be in the co-curricular
045report um very proud of Owen Brier and Brady and um bringing up Doug cape and his Wind Ensemble percussion crew that was able to give them a drum line uh to celebrate them going to State um in the end Brady plays fifth which was awesome and his brother placed six so Owen played six so congratulations to them you can our students of the month of January um and then we had a competition including fifth grade uh just uh a few weeks ago in our NHS and Mr hman supported that over 27 fifth graders came in for an academic competition and our NHS kids supported that um it was really fun because it's always fun to see uh our older kids mixing with our younger kids and doing some really cool stuff um we did have
046a uh High School just like the elementary and primary school we did have a middle school high school bullying presentation that took place on Monday March 3rd um I appreciate the parents that I know people are very busy but I appreciate some of the parents that came out you can see some of the things that we talked about um that we also had a bulling presentation a video that I created that we shared with our advisor so our home room kids today um so they could see some of the things that we do to try to prevent bullying um and I would like to thank Mr pporn and Mr Marshall because they they definitely helped in that presentation um Mr ppor did mention something about saps Club making a difference and that's with he feminine
047hygiene dispensers specifically and they were both here tonight I wish I could have talked about them while they were here Emily tenbarge and Katie Schilling um they headed this effort um you can see them with one of the dispensers and a sign that they created that goes next to every single dispenser um they are still working on like how are they going to get refilled and they work with some middle school students um if you want to talk about that just briefly yeah so actually last year I had two sixth grade students come and request having Feb and hygiene product as Spencers uh our restrooms and we had kind of talked about an admin staff and didn't really come to a conclusion this year we decided to move forward with it but I had a
048couple uh Emily tenbarge and Katie Shilling came down and met with those girls and they went around and picked different picked the spots in the restrooms uh where we're going to put those dispensers so just a nice little way to bring together the high school and the middle school girls and every group needs a leader and it is Mr Steinberg so I really appreciate them because they really look up to Adam as far as the direction that they need and he's the one that kind of like um I don't know brings people together uh when we need students try to help them get their things done absolutely so Sarah Sarah what's that Sarah yeah um I just had a question before we moved on from the subject um curious whether there would be a way
049for people to donate to this effort if they'd like to I think I was at some Library recently that puts out you know products and um men products in the bathrooms and they accept donations so I just wondered if maybe the school district could do that yeah we're accepting donations at the middle school I put that in our uh Middle School newsletter this month we did have one family drop things off but yeah we are uh we'd appreciate any donations we're also looking at fun uh funding this through grants uh if possible as well yes for both of you I also would like to know how many people showed up for your bullying presentation five or six I can't remember five or six parents including this parent so that would have been six six including
050six including I guess I do have a question real quick too about that is it is it more of a presentation or is there like discussion and questions from the families too yeah it's both both okay yeah all right okay will they get done again will they be done again maybe not this year but um I I don't think there's anything wrong I know we're going to revisit it every year with our students so yeah um a couple other things quickly jobs Fair we have on April 10th so if there's somebody out there that has a business that is looking to join our jobs for make sure they reach out to me right now we have 29 businesses that are going to be coming in so we'd like to increase that just a little bit
051um spring Sports uh starting dates you can see those spring play Caleb's going to cover um and then of course Audrey par Parts photo albums which are also always awesome and there was one edition the Valentine's Day broadcast which in the Blue Devil bulletin was the most hit link uh in the March Blue Devil bulleon so you can check that out that was awesome was Mr Marshall and I had a good time in one of you all I mean everybody I thought you guys won yeah I cly not thank you thank you um our student report thank you heather so I'll start with the Bucks game pep band uh for the second year the high school pet band played for a buck game which is always a lot of fun and very interesting uh we
052played a variety of Hometown Favorites on Thursday February 27th and before the game began and yes we did see Yannis warming up it was very intriguing and it hit and it hit Facebook this afternoon as well so yeah um and then we viewed the game where the Bucks won against the Nuggets uh 121 to 112 which was an awesome game to watch and on TNT I believe it was natural broadcast and then the uo CLA choir visit so the High School Coral program was very lucky to host the University of Wisconsin o CL concert choir on February 28th the students were excused from class in the morning which I think was the main poll to come speci opportunity where they were able to hear the choir sing and then they sang for the choir and
053then finally participate in a few songs with the choir uh special Thanks goes out to Dr Watkins who is the head of the coral department at U O Clair and the W oair concert choir for their visit all right 6 through 12 band and Choir concerts so starting this year uh both high school and middle school will be hosting their March band inquire concert together this is a great way to build both programs and make some fun memories along the way um I'm greatly looking forward to it and I hope are you guys actually performing together yes oh my god I've got them in my calendar I can't wait choir is tomorrow night 311 sorry Juniors and anyone that is taking the ACT um they will be in the high school Pac and band will
054be Thursday March 13th in the high school gym we're both starting at 700 p.m. and co-curricular success so mock trial State as Mr J pointed out so over the weekend L's Varsity Mack trial team participated in the state tournament and they played the best teams in the state all fighting to be the team advancing to Nationals and I have a tiple here this is the 18th year in the last 19 years that L has made it at state tournament not the 15th in the last 17 Mr Miss Potter just texted me that I made a mistake on it I know you're watching I want to thank you for that still coaching she's still coaching uh so congratulations to all the students on their participation and dedication to LHS Mar and to my team I'm so
055proud of you um the spring play lhs's spring play is coming soon uh students have been working hard to bring to life the day the internet died it's a very fun show they will preview the show for a test audience on April 10th followed by performances April 11th 12th and 13th unfortunately we don't have ticket information quite yet but as soon as we get that that'll be out and then there's a place summary there if you're interested in reading it student travel opportunities so this month we have two trips leading from the district uh firstly the Washington DC trip and this is a little blurb that Amy Christensen who who is an eighth grade math teacher and the eighth grade trip coordinator sent me uh so from March 15th through the 21st 46 students and
056four adults will be traveling by coach bus to Washington DC Mount Vernon Colonial Williamsburg Yorktown and Jamestown we will visit many memorials such as Vietnam k Ian Lincoln FDR Martin Luther King Jr Air Force World War II and Jefferson we will also tour many museums and buildings such as capital National Archives Forge theater Holocaust Museum Smith smithonian Museum and the n n National Cathedral that was Tong history today but that trip is always a lot of fun and I hope they really enjoy it are you going Mr pwor I'm not this year I went last year though it's amazing it's such a great opportunity the National Cathedral is amazing and then the Boston trip so the LHS music program will be traveling to Boston Massachusetts during spring break they will depart on March 21st and
057return after a week of fun sightseeing touring and performing on March 27th while there they will perform they will tour places such as Harvard University Fenway Park multiple multiple museums and historical places associated with the Revolutionary War further they will participate in the in music clinics with clinicians from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and chorus which might be my favorite part of the trip if I'm being honest and then on page five of my report there is a list of upcoming dates thect not going on yeah fantastic thank you Caleb curriculum it's really hard to follow Caleb is it though and you don't ever have a tie on he [Music] [Laughter] does sry I just knock over our board is feisty we are a little feisty um you would have remembered from my last board report
058that I had just a few notes on observations that uh I been doing adrias in in the second semester too we both do observations of Educators throughout the district um that prior board report referenced observations for the primary school um in late February and early March I was doing observations at both Elementary ococ and and the middle school and was just so impressed um with each of those buildings you know couple things about the middle school there was just a theme when I walked in just really clear consistent classroom routines so every single classroom that I walked into um there was a posted agenda when you walked in you saw the learning Target um I was appreciative of just that structured approach that I saw in every classroom a lot of integration of higher level
059thinking skills uh deep questioning um within the content that I really appreciate it as well at the elementary school in OC really appreciated seeing our math fact fluency routine continuing to shape take shape and teachers continue incorporate that uh into the routines I I appreciated the Deep reading comprehension discussions that I saw that were going on with our new my view literacy curriculum and then also just most notably just the strong relationships that the educators are building with students that would that was really shown through so appreciated all those things and now I am in the middle school I think I was two of kid classes this past week uh I I wanted to just also just piggyback on what was talked about earlier with our middle school math visits that was really born out
060of those K12 math team conversations where we have all of those teachers representing those different levels in a room together and talking about the student experience where they have five years of Everyday Math then they hit middle school and not only are they adjusting to a to a new building but a new math routine and they're getting ready for the the ready math routine and so for our teachers many of them hadn't seen that program in action so it was born of giving them the opportunity to go up there see that in action so as we're now in the second semester of fifth grade for for those students they can start to frontload and get them ready for some of the routines we are going to mirror that then for some of our Middle School
061uh Educators to go and see Badger math at the high school in April doing and then last math 24 competition so a big thank you to all of the Educators and our fearless leader at the elementary uh osc level as they developed practice opportunities for students to partake in this math 24 uh routine and game and then they had a math 24 competition locally for our 4th graders and fifth graders they identified six students at each of those levels and they head out tomorrow for the Dells to participate in the Columbia County Advanced learner math 24 competition so I know we have a lot of excited students that are going to going to do that tomorrow that's awesome well and Nick just to piggy back on what you said at the beginning I had went
062to the middle school and done an observation as well as the high school and just watching um the engagement I mean nobody was sitting over there going oh they're all like engaged with going on with the teacher like with with science and math but um but also I just kind of wanted to go back to school because I that time went by just like that and I thought oh gosh a block have my by like that when I was done so I was totally impressed that Terry uh thanks Nick okay oh that's me yep school board report for March 2025 I should put my glasses on um Sarah and Adria taught youth mental health first day PA to five community members way to go I mean I thought that was pretty good to get five
063members in for that because it's five hopefully that we'll go talk to other people to come in the training was held at Reach Out Loi youth Mental Health First Aid teaches adults how to help a youth who is experiencing a mental health or addiction challenge or is in a crisis and I've done that training more than once and it it is just a great training everybody should get it Brian taught the 12th graders how to administer an Aran and the signs and symptoms of an at overdose four different 30 minute sessions were offered for students to attend teaching 12th graders these valuable life skills is important since they'll be off to college and Workforce places elcat received a grant for $2,230 from the northeastern Wisconsin area health education center and the funding will be allocated
064to elcat to enhance engagement and build Comm Coalition membership a portion of this money they will use for supplies for the March elcat um ceremony of people in the community that are um giving to the community please plan to attend the alcat award ceremony which will recognize District students students staff community members and Community groups who have been nominated for making a difference in our school and Community the ceremony will take place on Wednesday March 19th from 9:00 am to 10: here okay that's it thanks Terry and last but not least student services thank you um first I'd like to share some information on indicator 8 so the individuals with Disabilities Act requires that each state has their own State performance plan um to evaluate and monitor the state's efforts in implementing idea Wisconsin's plan
065has 17 different um indicators for maintaining or improving the outcomes of students with disabilities many of these indicators are monitored through like a specific data poll at various different times of the year but indicator 8 is a little bit different um this data is collected by a survey that's sent out to all of our parents who have students with disabilities um they asked 22 different questions in the areas of welcoming respectful and supportive environments and the purpose is to monitor parents involvement as a means of improving special education services um so our indicator requires a minimum response rate of 10% and we've already met that 10% uh but the survey will continue to be open through June and we will receive feedback from that survey in September and we look forward to using that to
066improve our practices I also just want to update you on an upcoming event which is find your future so find your future is held at Madison College and is for high school students with disabilities students have an opportunity to tour the campus and explore different careers some of our students showed interest in attending sessions on it programs interior design automotive and welding programs so a thanks to Adora Billy Nick franciscovich Abby Turner and Anna Lisa lemelin for providing these opportunities for our students awesome thank you I have a question so this is always the same week in March correct and MATC is on spring break during that week it often Falls that way often yes so I participated several times but I'm getting past that and so my program's not in there this time but
067it would be nice if it was on another week not spring break is what you're saying not spring break I mean they could see like the labs in action and could be more interactive I think all right thank you District Administrative report yeah I just want to Echo a couple things I've inside M trial um I was there um Saturday morning and watched uh Caleb and Tessa and the rest of the group in action I don't think Caleb should be the only one in the top 10 um attorneys um there's a few others on our staff that I thought were phenomenal as well they did a great job it's just if you've never sat and watch mck trial it's amazing um and I appreciate the amount of support that L gets like you go into
068most courtrooms and that's been that way every time I've gone to mock trial like you're supposed to sit behind your team but well we're sitting on both sides because it's just there's so many people fromi even though you can't wear Loi gear right yeah you yeah they so it's it's great they do a great job um and also what Caleb had mentioned that the concert's coming up this weekend so or this week um looking forward to those they should be great um obviously the we have a school board election coming up um so L Optimus Club will be sponsoring a for for the three candidates running for school district uh board education um will be had held this Thursday March 13th from 1:15 to 2:15 at the high school performing arts center it allows some
069of our high school classes to participate recording of that form will then be available on the Optimus Club Facebook page for those who cannot attend um what time is that again 1:15 on Thursday um the general spring election is scheduled for Tuesday April 1st no fooling uh the three candidates for the Board of Education are Heather Baron Scott Dy and Michael hinder today uh we appreciate each candidate's willingness to serve the students staff and community on the board of education so thank all three of you for running um bullying and harassment so this is have you been brought up um so it was brought up obviously in public input one of the items that came up on our school perception survey last year the district wanted to look more closely at was bullying and harassment
070the district received a score of 3.61 out of five on the question am I satisfi with our school district's effort on bullying the score fell to 7 69th percentile meaning that we scored higher than 69 of our comparison districts so compared to other District we scored very well in this area but it was an area we wanted to look at a little bit more um so therefore each School hosted a night to discuss how bullying was addressed at their school the primary schools we said and La Elementary School see hosted their event on Monday February 24th the middle school and high school had their building event on March 3rd uh in addition all the schools provided reminders expectations to our students uh schools around the topic helping to clarify definition of bullying letting our students
071and parents know the process that is being used and address these issues so one of the things that was brought up in public input today was having a community meeting on these we had a community meeting right we we posted and had them um I know some things were posted on social media um as we talked about in public input those Community meetings were posted on our social media page and were posted on the thread of that social media comment on the llight neighborhood page I think that was the one I was on to invite people to come in and have those conversations um so those presentations really walk families through the process and protocol call S that are in place when School receives a complaint and ways that they can make complaints uh the
072primary goal is when that happens when we get a complaint is to investigate what occurs put an end to any issue that may be going on while educating students and families along the way we are an educational institution right we're not just uh we don't punish just go to punish kids we educate kids we work hard to treat each student with respect apply consequences on appropriate and educate throughout that process the part that really is a struggle for families at times is we need to protect both students in the situation right due to privacy rights um we're able to talk to students about their own or families about their own students but we can't talk about other students and if that happens I want to know about it right I was one that was brought
073up tonight if that happens I want that name of that person and have them contact me because that shouldn't happen that should come to our administrators immediately I appreciate Mr fosbender uh miss fosbender Mr shinan M Mr psorn Mr Marshall and Mr J for taking the time to put together those presentations with the help of M Shader um and having those evenings together for families um and again it was great to have those families there and there was great discussion um around some of those topics but right we WE Post those things and we have those meetings and we've struggled to get people to come in and to try to engage families in these conversations because we know it's important and we want to engage them um so as you have a parent if you're
074watching and you have a concern as a parent please reach out don't assume the district knows that's one of things that always happens I had that with high school principal well Mr bring knew because they they it happened right next to him like no I didn't like there was something going on that I'm not just because I was standing in the area doesn't mean I I was sitting there listening to that conversation that was going on or I know what's going on or I know that these two are having an issues because they were friends yesterday and their interaction is is seems like a friend um because one of the things we talk about what bullying and harassments it's it's hard to to figure that out especially when kids are are are learning how they
075become how to socially interact with each other right they watched the Disney Channel right was supposed to be really good friendly and all that kids going on on on Disney channel is p kids bullying each other um and or people giving each other a hard time and so a lot of times kids are trying to make friends by giving each other a hard time and they struggle with that the best example I ever heard of bullying and harassment was two people duck hunting they're sitting in a Duck Blind right and they're giving each other a hard time back and forth cuz that's what friends do at times right we give each other a hard time and somebody all sudden like so let's say it's Sarah and I are duck hunting right right and we're kind
076of going back and forth because we're friends drawing back and forth and suddenly I say something that crosses the line with Sarah right I didn't know it was going to cross the line but it did and all of a sudden it gets really quiet in the Duck Blind right and you're praying for ducks to show up so we can shoot some ducks and can get off through this awkward moment if we're friends I know where that line is now I will never go across that again it happens it happens all the time with our spouses with our friends sometimes we cross a line and we don't know we cross the line till they let us know so that's when we talked about the presentations first thing we says tell people to you have to tell
077them stop because sometimes people don't know that that's your line um but if I want to bully somebody or I want to harass somebody I've now found a spot and I keep going back there right um so that's part of the issue so you need to tell people to stop then you need to walk away right and then you need to tell somebody and one of the things I struggle with as a high school principal principal and as an administrators is there's times you'd work with kids and 95% of the time and we address bullying and harrassment it stops but there's times it doesn't and I would talk to kids about like you need to come back if something happens tomorrow you need to come back and tell me tomorrow I don't want to hear
078six weeks from now well you didn't do anything about it well did you come back and tell me something else happened well no I just thought you knew like what do you mean you thought I knew like you need to come and tell us so same with families you need to tell us and we give you lots of ways to do that right you can come individually you have counselors that you can run into you have your teachers you have your administrators we have speak up speak out on it is on every 6 through 12 students Chromebook it is on their homepage it's on our website there's advertisements on all of our walls to do it we take it very seriously um and that's why the presentations were done um and we wish we'd have
079had 30 people 40 families at each one um but I I hate to say well I said you know we we did this the other day and we had nine at the primary school I had uh we were meeting with Columbia County superintendents in Dan County or Columbia County Emergency Management and the person from Columbia County Emergency Management used to work at brona school district he goes how'd you get nine families that's the struggle right if you have a concern come in let's have a conversation we absolutely will um so thank you for bringing that up again today and again thank you guys for for taking the time to to take evenings and and have those conversations uh and then finally spring break is coming um felt like it today obviously um I hate to
080say but usually that means spring break is going to be really cold uh the school district of O will be deserving spring break from March 24th to 28th All building offices will be officially closed uh Friday March 21st at 4M and reopen on March 30 thanks that's the policy I don't want to read the policy you don't want yeah I know it's pretty fun spring is in the air and I'm loving it I don't know about you but this weather definitely helps my mood another thing that helps my mood is being in any of our school buildings one thing I really hope to do more of is getting more involved with everyday school activities no matter what is going on in our personal lives no matter what is happening in the world all you have
081to do is see what our kids are doing in our district and it puts an instant smile on your face and that's just in the classroom but we have numerous things happening outside of the classroom too spring sports are starting up for our high school and youth teams we have a spring play coming up we have our spring concerts we have Fine Arts night we have our stride for Pride fundraiser and the list goes on I know that there are more to schools than just our kids teachers and staff but put all politics aside put all testing results aside put any controversial things aside for just a minute because I know those things are important too but just stop and look at our District's Facebook page volunteer any way you can go to a school
082activity anything that involves seeing our school district in action seeing our students learn and grow in front of your eyes seeing a group of kids together and conversing and laughing seeing our students showing their talents is such a beautiful thing like I said I know there is more to school districts than I'm talking about but those moments are what it's all about I always love volunteering in my kids' classrooms when they were younger and it literally helped my mental health it also made me really really really appreciate the teachers I would walk out of our school buildings after volunteering and feel so refreshed happy and proud of where my kids get to go to school and obviously volunteering is not just in the classroom our school district does numerous things throughout the school year that
083involves community members coming into our schools doing present ations donating money offering their talents and supporting our kids teachers and District thank you to all of you that donate volunteer pay taxes and do anything that is helping our district you are part of the reason that makes all of those moments possible this community is beneficial to what makes the school district so amazing it's all a beautiful cycle and there is no start or finish kind of like what happens first the chicken or the egg when our community is involved and supports our schools that helps to motivate our teachers to be a support system for our kids and when our kids are getting support from their family and in the schools that helps our children grow into successful adults and those successful adults want to
084support the system that supported them when they were younger and the process starts all over again and that is beautiful thank you yes thank you guys it's all true summer school classes yes before we get going on the agenda and I should have mentioned this earlier do you think that it would be possible for us to just make a slight adjustment to the order could we do the strategic planning refresh before we talk about the inflation reduction act funds I'd like to discuss the Strategic Plan before I vote to fund it with the inflation reduction act funds okay it's just swapping four and three we do that or do we need to make a motion you make a motion to do that did you just made that motion I'll second that motion motion by Scott
085second by Sarah ramish and it's basically to switch to flipflop flipflop 93 and 904 03 to 90404 um any more discussion all in favor I anyone okay anyone post okay motion passes 7 Z okay so we will first but we will do summer school right now first okay and that's Emma newer right Emma does said as well so I'm gonna turn this over to uh Miss I think Shin it's beautiful it is a beautiful present awesome am is a jewel does she know that I want to go I want to take some of these summer school classes yes so we are very much in the process of um helping our families start register for School classes right now if a student was recommended for reading or math they have until this Friday to sign up
086for those two classes or one or two depending on if they're both um reading and math and then they can also choose one other um activity because we want to make sure that they get that um registration done first and then we actually will open up Monday March 17th at 7 o'clock AM for all other families to register for the classes so um we have a lot of our you know usual summer classes a couple new ones as well and so hope that families um will start to sign up and participate in that there is a change for busing this year so there will be more information coming about that um in the past you would register like for a class that entitled busing um there'll be more information we're just trying to streamline our
087process um for that so looks aw I just have a question did I miss it or is it not happening summer saunters it is okay the clinic oh yeah so the clinics weren't out there right yeah clinics are out there should be uh they might not be on that course catalog okay maybe that's why because I think there's like a golf one too and then um isn't there something else there in a different there maybe at the end because that's sort of an all day half day all day clinics yeah there's a few clinics that we run you know BFS um summer saers um there a couple more that I can't think off hand leadership ccil yeah Leadership Council if you haven't um I would just encourage you to on the district website if you
088go to schools and you go to the summer school um web page there's a ton of information there um Emma does a great job of making that more user friendly um and all the information is there as well people can ask us questions too y oh there's summer saunters right there on the web page I just went to the web page thank you guys yeah no but it looks awesome someone we have to do anything about make ation oh I'll make a motion to approve the summer school classes as presented and I'll motion by Sarah Rish second by Terry any more discussion all in favor I anyone opposed motion passes 70 all right administrator director contract extension approval yeah in the past years the board has moved to extend administrator and director contracts with oneye
089extensions and either February March board meeting so here we are at that time of year so typically we do that we have a great director team and a great administrative team so I recommend um extend or issue contracts for twoyear contracts for make a motion to approve director contracts with a one-year extension through June 2027 for Miss Carl Mr Potter Mr hurrian Miss price Mr low Mr rival and Miss Shin want to say Tracy sorry with the compensation levels to be determined prior to issuing of formal contracts second also move to approve the issuing of a two-year contract administ of a two-year contract administrative contracts for Mrs fosbender Mr shunan Mr psor Mr jelnick Miss Shrader Dr Carl Mr Brewer and Mr Marshall commencing July 1st 2025 and extending through June 30th 2027 with compensation
090levels to be determined prior to issuing a formal contract and move to approve the issuing of a two-year contract District administrator contract to Dr Brian commencing on July 1st 2025 and extending through June 30th 2027 with compensation level to be determined prior to assuring a formal contract now I'll second that I'll second all three I'll second all three there you go motions by Adam second by Sarah Rish any more discussion but you should vote on them separately you should take a vote on each one well then why didn't you see separate I did see him separate three separate motions okay so well I was to say can't we group them all together we did unless people have because they're different motions so they're not all one motion right but you put them all together okay
091so we can okay okay so we are going to vote on all you have discussion so you can ask for discussion yes no so yes I need more discussion I know all those people we didn't really want to extend it but whatever I'm just kidding um you can have discussion on any of motion that's all if we had to if we had to change something would just vote separately [Music] on okay I'm good with voting them all together Sarah you good with for discussion absolutely okay all in favor I any anyone opposed okay motions Al together pass 7 to Zero thanks and then we are going to do our strategic planning refresh first it has been four years since we completed the Strategic plan it's time to engage in our strategic plan refresh as we
092start leading into uh some big decisions coming down the road for the board um the process will celebrate past achievements identify areas for growth and ensure the plan continues to align with our community's expectation as remember our last strategic plan really set the priorities uh for our current um current work that's being done uh we have the balance scorecard system in place for that and we've seen tremendous growth in our district and a lot of different areas um which has really come out of that strategic planning process um our approach will emphasize Community engagement and strategic prioritization decision-making so it'll be a little different than last time last time we brought everybody back in you know rning the gym but we were creating a strategic plan now we're looking at we're still the work that
093needs to be done on this one so like let's refresh it and make sure we're still making the priorities um so the goal strategic plan refresh would be to review and celebrate strategic goal achievements to date analyze areas for Canard growth and uh Improvement facilitate a collaborative refresh and strategic plan incorporating diverse uh care stakeholder perspectives establish a clear framework for the next five years for line implementation of priorities School District continuous Improvement and transparent communication on progress uh the facili and finance committee reviewed uh this proposal and unanimously moved it to the full board the recommendation of approv did we have other bids or was are we just sticking with them because they did it they did the last one so we that's the system that we've used right so we worked with this
094before they're the ones who helped us put together the balance scorecard system um so that's why we we reached out to them to work with them again they give us a deal since it's a refresh maybe but if you look at what they're going to do the four-phase plan it's very different than what we did in the first they've done this for other schools I take it yeah so um it's Brad if you remember some of you were there so Brad s was was the person who let it um he leads these he does these around the state um and does a great job with them he's been doing these refresh things then for a while so and he just went for his own District a little while ago so yes so the actual U
095memo that you gave us obviously um kind of summarizes but that other one on here is really going into detail of what they're going to do that's his prop I question under the phase one project initiation and govern governance guidance point three communitybased strategic steering committee reconvening my question is how are we deciding on this community based committee yeah so let St to the board so what we had I discussed with a few board members I talked to Heather about this was the possibility of bringing back uh some of the group that we had before um but really that's the conversation we talked about having on the 19th the board chose those people last time and if the board wants to start asked to approve the funding of it tonight why would we wait to
096have the dis why would we why would we be funding it before we're having that discussion that's what I'm getting at I think we have to approve the fundings so so for them to come and start this process that's part of the process is us sitting down with the both them and walking through that process what if you have concerns or don't agree with say for example here just reconvening the same committee that's going impact my willingness to right agree to fund it that's that's a discussion that this board can have but the board doesn't want to bring back the original committee the board doesn't need to that's just a conversation I've had with Brad um and I said I've had with Heather uh and how was that initial how was that initial Community Based
097committee convene chose so um by who so it was chosen by the board so the board um again the same kind of process at the beginning met with the with Brad and they mapped out the community like what are the different areas of the community like we want um somebody from local government we want local business owners we want somebody uh we want a student staff member we want rural community we want Civic organizations so they had like all these different areas the board brainstorm what are the different stakeholder areas in the group and then so then what are there some that overlap okay now who in the area represents these different groups and the board made a discussion like well this this person represents that group or here's two or three people that represent
098this group and then they talked about had two or three people and then the board called those people and asked them to serve on that committee it was board driven two or three people because that you have to get someone to commit to all this stuff well they found other people uh like 12 so if you want to go back to our strategic planning website it has it lists all those people are on that favor of opening it up if there are people that are interested in doing this allowing them to so have an opportunity I kind of want not the board goad picking likeminded people and obviously we're going to talk about that next week but I kind of the thinking too I would like I would like if if not everybody to come
099back cuz like you said it was like 12 people but then and then maybe even have more those so or at least some of those people then I thought well they kind of knew how it went so they can kind of be like good guiding to keep it on track but then I still I was agreed to where I would want conversely you have new people coming and do it that potentially have different or new ideas how many in the end were at the strategic planning we had 100 over 100 and some people yeah over 100 so people kept getting in I was part of it I mean I understand process well how did you get there then I was asked by right Pro I was probably I believe I was asked by one of
100the people that the board asked yeah right so so the board and then what happened was the board uh the board chose these people and then when they met They remapped al security to make sure that the board hadn't missed anybody so tonight would be basically a vote of moving forward with this but we're going to meet again as a board I think the 19th and then we can discuss this further specif so tonight it's just basically agreeing with the idea of doing this and how was four years chose well so we are leading into we have a lot of big decisions coming right we have a next few years yeah so we want to make sure that we have re we don't want to like make all those decisions and then turn around and
101redo a strategic plan we would like to have that strategic plan lead that process like what are the priorities of the community what they continue to be that has been our guiding kind of document as we've gone through so now we'll be help be our guiding document as we continue to move into the next phase of like we'll get referendum we'll have to look at looking at facility and things of that nature so um that's why we looked at like it just to me it strikes me because it wasn't all that long ago that this was done it was meant to be a five I know I don't think it was all that long ago but it was wait it was one of my first I don't think it was all that long ago he
102saying like he doesn't four years ago just doesn't seem like to to to go through all this and to to lay out the cost of doing it I my opinion is that what we have right now has been working very well because the district's in a very good place I understand what what you're saying I'm just bringing up my my thoughts go why four years to be honest with you was to have the super the the Strategic plan happen a year earlier than it did but Co kind of messed up that because I was we were going to do my first my goal was to have my first year I was here so then why not discuss doing this next year as we get even CL well because 2026 because you'll be making you'll be
103making referendum decisions next spring CU you're going to want to have information out on a survey next next by this time next year you want to be putting a survey out to people regarding ref that this would be convenient that we would be doing this over the summer but yeah this spring or into the summer a little bit yeah I mean if we we're going to do it this spring we could do it next spring and still have the information you can do it you don't again this is a board decision you can do whatever my recommendation is My Strong recommendation is now why I'm talking to the board about it right now yeah so my recommendation is strong recommendation is to do it at the front end of this process um but again the
104board can make that decision yeah and I'm not saying that that that's wrong I'm just raising the question that need to be done in four years you guys just mentioned you thinking you were do it five years but you couldn't because of Co so should we do it in five years I think the wrinkle in that though is the potential well not the potential but another referendum coming because that's going to be in with the planning this will be part of that planning for that referendum that we're going to be starting next spring oh no that I'm not going to say we that the board that the board I'm I don't know that I'm going to be here on the board right but that the board will be undertaking in this spring of next year
105because when when is the potential for will start talking about referendum the board will start having conversations about referendum this summer and the fall because you will have to start looking at the bear we will do what applied population study I will bring in that to the facility and finance committee at our next meeting to bring do a applied population study which was the you know again having an enrollment study that bases our the referendum Beed model on um we will do that hopefully this summer and um that will lead again in Beed model projections and starting having conversations about what a potential referendum will look like it takes long time to put together a referendum um and I want to make sure we have enough the board has enough time um to do this
106well will they look at because I know there's something with the city is there a vote or a presentation by the developer developer at the top of Loi because there's I've seen some plans of potential like senior apartments regular Apartments I mean right what I think there's something else coming I can't remember what I saw but um yeah there's something coming up I don't next week or this week or something but we'll bear then know about that and look at that as well do you know what I'm trying to get at yeah so again be doesn't look at that we hired we go through the U extension to applied population study is a different group and then we use the data they give us like four or five enrollment projections okay based on these different
107models um and that we as a board the board will make a choice like this is the one we're going to follow right so for example they give us four Mo four or five models last time one of them showed us declining the other four showed us growing we chose the one that had the least amount of growth to try to be as conservative as possible going into the last referendum but then we base the referendum because we have to base enrollment for the next five years in a bared model for a financial projection so we want you don't want me doing that right you want experts who are who are doing those enrollment projections to put those together so you're making the best possible guest because again if you're putting together a referendum it's
108a three-year referendum a 5-year referendum those are difficult projections regardless um so you want to use the best data you can in the front end and just since I brought it up because it was I brought up the top ofi it's tomorrow it's the city plan commission we'll be considering the implementation plan for the tapod development tomorrow so that's yeah I knew i' had seen something on it so so doing a strategic plan this spring and this summer and getting that out of the way and getting the community to tell us right is there anything you want to change now change it now because next fall we start making decisions heading it seems like the timing is perfect to me and whether we do it this spring or the following spring we're still going to
109be doing it and spending one of those ni and the funds are coming from the next agenda item right but we won't if we wait till next spring we won't have that information as fall and winter if you do it next spring you'll be making decisions backwards based on this strategic plan right and then doing a strategic plan and so you might do a if you do it next spring you'll be doing a strategic plan after you're been making some decisions about a referendum and and doing stuff with your community and and asking them and then possibly having a strategic plan that doesn't match that I I honestly don't think they'll change the Strategic plan all that much but I still want to hear it'd be nice to just hear what people are thinking it's
110it's it's the gift of that priority the community gives us I don't we don't Gess what well and there's been a lot of new building and new people and young families and we I mean nationville night out there were tons of people there that I didn't recognize anymore with little kids so I don't feel strongly that that now's the wrong time to do it and spring is a right time to do it uh I I hear what you're saying and I understand the rationale but I would suggest that the board is going to be in the very early process of talking about the referendum and not necessarily making any decisions which are the words that you just used as far as the referendum next year you will at this time next year hopefully be putting
111to have a survey going out to families and community members with having like scenarios of a refer so you will have had to make some major decisions regarding the ref referendum or if you're going to have facilities on a referendum if you're going to do an operating referendum a recurring referendum or any of those things or if you're going to do facilities um any of those things you're going to want to put in a survey and get feedback from your community um and you going to be doing that this time of year next year because you're going to give them you know four to six weeks to take that survey and then you're going to get that results back in May and then you'll be using it in the summer and you will have to
112make a decision to go to referendum by August if you want to go in November of 26 right you don't have to right the board doesn't have to go November 26 they could go the following spring but that leads some that there's issues for doing that yeah right so we've talked about that before so my recommendation be going that 20 fall 26 November ask c number of question you can only do two a year corre you can only do uh you only ask two referendum questions a year so like last time we did a referendum that's why we had um our Capital Improvements together with our operating um because if it would have failed it would have give you the opportunity to go back in the following November we didn't have a fall election date
113in when we went to the election in 2022 because there's no fall election in the fall of 2021 so we had to go in the spring um so we made it one quest to board at the time made a decision to make it one question to protect the opportunity to go back in the following November now if you this November 26 there is opportunity you could have two questions because you could if they if it would happen to fail you could go back in November or April the following year because it's a different year right it's a different calendar calendar year correct um the other nice thing about going in November is you don't have to have those conversations like we did last time when you go in April you have to have non-renewal conversations
114with staff because if it doesn't pass then you have to start having specific conversations with people cuz we want to treat people like we want to be treated and if we know that there there's a potential their job's not going to be here we need to let them know that because they need staff needs to notify us the board by when February that they're retire for retirement right what about if they choose to go to a different District or well then they can do that at any time but then there's a there's a um but what um so there's no ding against them or penalty or whatever you know what's that time it it changes so like it depends if they break their contract if they're issu we issued a new contract in um May
115so we just talked about this really compensation that our hope is always to have the compensation done by May so we issue those contracts right right they're relevant they have to turn them in by June they decide not to turn that in by June there's really no penalty for that but then that job becomes vacant if they sign that contract and then after June 15th then there is a fine for and from June 15th to like July and I the dates aren't but July June 15th July 15th there is a break in the contract there a cost you break it after July 15th to August 15th there's problem I was I I guess I had the whole retirement February on my brain because of the retirement retirement stff left no by February so that's what
116I was thinking was every but if we have to non staff we have to have that done by May at the latest and the timelines get really tight so typically we look at March uh preliminary notices of non-renewal and right so we have gotten way down a rabbit hole versus I know I'm sorry I was just gonna say that I think it's been a discussion because a lot has been a big disc I didn't any of this before I was on the board well Adam was the only other one here um so like we the rest of us I've been through one referendum but we you know whole referendum thing and the dates are real strategic and I don't I mean I'm paying attention because I'm kind of remembering them from last time but I'm
117assuming time goes fast it's going that's the problem so I to move us along I'm going to make a motion to approve engaging in the Strategic plan refresh refresh process with bgo Consulting and I'll second that motion by Sarah Raymond second by Terry any more discussion the only other discussion that I have is just a clarification that the nuts and bolts and the specifics of this are discussed at our next that I'm understanding that correctly that's the plan that's disced discussed at our special meeting that we're going to be having on March 19th yes that is you can bring our corn beef and cabbage all right all in favor anyone opposed all right motion passes 7 Z I'm in favor of the corn beef and cabbage well that's a corn beef all right now we're
118going to go to 9.03 inflation reduction act funds yeah so uh CG Schmidt explored tax deductions through the uh inflation reduction act which allowed them to recoup funds mainly from their work in building the primary school um they are distributing some of those funds they recouped uh to the school district Loi we were not eligible as a u nonprofit to to go after those funds but C Schmidt as a contractor was um so they have $50,000 that they have given back to us for their work in primary school well the original version of the inflation reduction act did allow things like schools to go after that funds but before it was passed that was taken out and it was given over to businesses businesses had no they have no they did not have to give
119the money to us at all no those out of their own heart kind of things and that's a nice chunk of change that's a big chunk of money well that's going to pay for what we just voted on yeah so what fund does that go into yeah we'll put some in the fund 41 and some in the general fund okay I moveed to accept $50,000 from CG Schmidt and to use that money to offset strategic plan refresh process and the current referendum projects I'll second that motion by Adam second by Teresa any more discussion all in favor anyone opposed motion passes 70 guiding principles yeah so the board spent time discussing guiding principles to be used in the near future during bir uh when they had their board professional development sessions the first area of
120focus was on Guiding principles board would used to decide if the district should go to a nonrecurring referendum or go to a recurring referendum next time the district had to go to operation referendum um this will be a decision the board will be faced with so the board looked at some of these principles that help guide that decision the last time we met uh as the professional development with Drew horor um the board also put together guiding principles that they would like the community group to use when we're doing potential upgrades to facilities in Green Space the community group would use those principles to make those recommendations back to the um board about facilities so these are the two documents they don't have to be approved tonight these are drafts that have been put forward
121um if if you look in and I know they got in late um today so there is also if you look in the board docs there is um information like from the sticky note activity we did and actually the raw data is in there but these are kind of a summary way of putting these together um you know just kind of Adam were you doing or did somebody Adam put did like through AI or something to I did not because I'm scared of AI but well no because I know we had talked about it or Adam had about trying to trying to and it and it did consolidate them well but because they were a bunch of stuff what Heather did I'll speak sorry what Heather did and what I did was still I mean
122you did it and we I went over it three time it still looked like a bunch of sticky noes so it was it was okay but it wasn't good I really app are I really appreciate these are good cuz you can hold them in your head right but I mean I would the reason they're so good is because someone helped us the teacher helped us yeah and he's waiting on us and waiting on us we fin did it and like all right I'll just do I'm just kid let's be let's be clear why these got delayed right I went to Australia that's true so right we had this in November and we said we're we're going to we're going to kick these to January and then they just kind of get kicked because other things
123came up I was going to say it wasn't just Australia no I really appreciate this just is up and and the all the sticky notes are in here and I'm okay with I'm okay either voting on it tonight or holding it until next people want look at it more and try to make sure that we included everything or whatever if you want to make changes otherwise yeah people it's completely if people are ready to vote we can vote I think this you should make a motion then if you're okay to vote ask present second I don't think I need another month well no I just if anybody need Sarah you by Scott second by Rish perfectly fine okay any more discussion beautiful all in favor I anyone opposed I no you're good Sarah in between
124there's a yeah there's a delay good sorry so thank you Vince for helping us with that we do not have any policies tonight um we do have gifts and donations I'll make a motion to accept with great gratitude the donation of five automated external Def defibulators and two trainers to the crew program district for uh from the mortar Memorial foundation and a donation of $1,000 from the L Optimus club for the love of learning SU all second that's awesome motion by Adam second by Sarah Rish any more uh discussion I with the the mortar family I've done the blood drives you know with them and um yeah it's just a great group of people and you know do and this is a great thing to have absolutely absolutely no and the love of learning summer
125program is an awesome thing too so thank you guys very very much um all in favor uh anyone opposed motion passes 70 all right our committee reports we are going to start with cesa five you should mix these up too instead of just mixing up the administrators you should mix these up too season five so we we talked about um mix them up next time really ad might to be first just kidding structure we talked about um the person who runs cesa 5 Jeremy be his contract and what we're going to pay him and that kind of thing but also all the other people that are going to get paid there and what salary increase they were going to give to everybody um their insurance costs went up they have about 12 different plans insurance
126plans I think there's more than 12 because they cover such a wide area and on average it was about 8.9 9% increase for insurance yeah someone went up more some up less so they in addition to covering CPI stuff they also covered 4.3% of the insurance increase that's what we talked about for the whole Mee she's C talking well thank you um co-curricular items report all right wrestling on February 15th the wrestling team traveled to Regionals placing second out of 14 teams on February 18th the team traveled to cren to participate in team sectionals Loi lost in the first round to eventual sectional winner finore Loi wrestlers Owen D sh sorry Briar caves and Brady DST all qualified for the state wrestling tournament with Owen dor placing Sixth and and Brady placing fifth Lord short
127again boys basketball this was painful the boys basketball team finished the season with an overall record of 17- N and a conference record of five and three the boys earned a number three seed and hosted number six Dodgeville on Friday March 7th with the Blue Devils coming away with a 8158 Victory the boy season came to an end on Saturday March 8 e in a 50-40 loss to number one Wisconsin Bells girls basketball girls basketball team finished the season with an overall record of 13- 12 and a conference record of three and five girls earned a number five seed in the waa playoffs and took on number four boo Turner on Friday February 28th with the Blue Devils Falling by a score of 38- 33 Boys Hockey the boys hockey Co-op team finished the regular
128season with an overall record of 7 and 17 and a conference record of 3 and 10 they secured a number 12 seed in the waa playoffs taking on Sun Prairie on February 18th and losing by a score of six to1 to finish the season uh Mack trial some of this was already went over this past weekend the mack trial team traveled to State at the Dame County Court housee the team had four Incredibly Close trials with a total score of 673 to 669 just a four-point difference from Loi and the opposition over the entire tournament they finished 16 place with a one and three record but those numbers don't tell the full story of how competitive and hard fought each trial was K La brzil was recognized as one of the top 10 attorneys in
129the state for the second year in a row forensics on February 17th the forensics team competed in the WD AA subd District Tournament all members of the team earned the required scores to move on to the District Tournament with several students receiving perfect scores on March 1st the forensics team competed in the v Phillips Memorial Tournament the team took home first place in the small schools division yay uh play this Spring's production of the day the internet diet is coming up uh in April performances will run April 11th through the 13th in the Performing Arts Center awesome thank you uh OC okay hopefully you guys will be able to hear me um you're good okay okay great um so on February 19th um osc the board met um and a few of the updates that
130were covered at that meeting uh were that the parent teacher conferences uh were taking place and going well um there had been a presentation on the use of goats to manage invasive species coyote trapping was moved to due to weather uh staff kindness was on the calendar for February um empathetic and encouraging were the Community Values for the month of February uh there was a gallery walk which went very well and information was shared about pillars three and four there was also a staff bowling outing in March um something else that's been um um kind of a big topic for us on the OSD board with the charter renewal uh we're still working on that making progress but taking a deeper dive into the language of the charter still planning on meeting the deadline but
131have added some meetings to accomplish the deadline uh some other really great news is osc enrollment uh we had a very successful osc openhouse applications open to February 15th all applications must be submitted and actually have arrived at the school by March 15th so they can't just be postmarked by March 15th uh there was a suggestion um by um Jen to have them actually hand delivered if you are concerned you won't have it to them by March 15 there were 30 31 applications at that time back in February so I suspect there'll be a few more um beyond that uh they're deciding on ideal class sizes and if needed there may be a lottery and if so that would be taking place on March 21st and the last bit of exciting news is I know
132we've talked a few times about the osc lemonade jelly so um ultimately the board decided to order 500 jars so those are coming down the pike and also on March 20th there will be the Fine Arts night for osc and there will be food and a raffle in the small gym so hopefully folks can join us for that awesome thank you Sarah sure thank you um our board committee reports Personnel Personnel committee met last Wednesday the majority of the time was spent discussing compensation that is a discussion that will continue at the next committee level meeting in one month and at that meeting the committee will bring a suggested plan forward to the full board to act on uh compensation discussion what that mainly centered around was how to uh how to determine the the
133upcoming salary increases we spent a very very very brief amount of time because the compensation discussion uh took up the majority of the meeting uh getting some information about the insurance and the uh getting it basically an update on Insurance renewal but there's still I think quite a bit of information to still come out so there's nothing that we acted on or bringing forward at this time so uh more to come on both of those those fronts but I think traditionally we've tried to get that compensation discussion figured out and uh plan put together to bring to the April full board meeting and that is what we're gonna do this time as well so let people know staff knows yes and you guys are more than welcome to join us you said it's April 3rd
134I'll say the dates it's the it's the before the policy committee rate I know Thursday of the month it's at 4:30 yeah and it's been stated numerous times prior to this but I'll just state it again just like the current meeting we're having tonight the full board meeting committee meetings are open to to the public as well yes you can give public input you can sit in on them you don't have to sign up either this one would this one be a lot of closed session lot a close session this for sure and committee meetings you don't have to sign up like you do no not beforehand not beforehand you just show up and people would still be able to come get public input but to your point he the the discussion will be closed
135but then we go back into open and we'll whatever the recommendation is we'll share it yes during that open part you just won't won't hear the how we come to the decision because that's closed session stuff yeah so that's what we did and we'll be doing thank you important stuff yeah yes it is feel and you I felt like I was getting a headache when I left but we're gonna figure it out we'll get it we're doing it okay curriculum well we met on Fe February 18th with Mr Dr Carl and um Conor Anderson was one of our um presenting people we talked about the Career and Technical education department updates and Blue Devil manufacturing industry certifications communication partnership greenhouse and hydroponic projects and FFA activities that have high participation and we so we talked
136about all of those and our industry certifications went from zero two years ago to 19 this year that's awesome so that's the you know the students that are going out and earning certifications so a youth apprenti program a little known and added benefit to any any student that graduates from high school with that industry recognized certification up to $1,000 it's usually about 700 comes back to the district and funding that we can reinvest in those programs so that's hopefully in the next future years as we have students graduate with those we're going to get some funding back to the district goes all right back to Career and Technical stuff so that's what I was going to say under youth apprenti it that's where it comes thank you thank you thunder that's fine good so current
137enrollment for youth apprenticeship which is the kids that again this money can come back to the district to be used 36 students are participating in various Fields including agriculture manufacturing and Health Sciences of whatever type um structure and support uh cesa provides monthly meetings to help students track hours and complete paperwork future growth we're discussing on the need for more dedicated time and resources to expand the program it is a payback program and the thing is is we only have one Connor and that's gets to be an issue because there is so much paperwork one Dr well yeah but we have so much paperwork with this program just looks at them yeah they glasses and I just I know about how much paperwork is with this program because I did that CNA class for years
138and there was just I was a student of that CNA class a lot of paperwork to keep that all connected where it needed to be education employment plans we had that discussion there's an annual state required update that we did um or heard about and the plan includes Regional employment data and student career planning activities and the district is auditing and refining its academic and career planning processes and let's see here Comm comparison to State and National averages in most grades Loi consistently has been outperforming State national averages on I ready and focus on our fluency emphasis on tracking words per minute and reading assessment this year is due to act 20 and intervention strategies we talked again about you know reviewing which students might need intervention and how that is adjusted and um parent
139reports so students get an individual report home um you know hopefully there's more communic going on as far as parents and to help them with the fluency Etc so anything else Nick did I forget anything right that's it thank you facility and finance we had a discussion with the village of danne about the baseball field in the village of Dayne and about maintenance and cost issues and working together to keep that field going a good discussion good discussion I thought it was really good discussion and next steps on making that happen so we met with them today oh good oh nice so there it is already next steps happening and we've been having discussions on adding batting cages to the to the district for our educational purposes but also for our co-curriculars but because this
140entire District belongs to the community right it's not yeah nobody can use it it's for our youth sports also right so we're trying to get all of that together into one to get more Ving cages and we're working on that um you heard about a u network cabling upgrade from Tyler was in the consent agenda we're g to update everything to C 6 starting with the middle school which is part of the referendum and we updated the cleaning service contract that we have we updated the lawn mowing contract that we have and we talked about the school fee we talked about those inflation reduction act funds and the strategic planning proposal that we just had a long discussion on and that was our meeting thank you and policy did not meet and actually kind of
141going off of what Scott was saying too is these committee meetings just so the public this is where all of our discussions happen like we do these summaries and I'm I'm listening to these and I'm thinking how do we even talk about all this in an hour really we do it but not facility and fin not always an hour that's true we do go over sometimes at least an hour and it really does that's where a lot of those discussions happen so public is always welcome to listen in because you'll definitely hear more details about that instead of these where we have to kind of summarize stuff so you do have to be there in person yes yes we do not stream the committee meetings it would be very expensive so okay so we don't
142wear Tyler no Tyler has to go home sometimes right okay so um future meetings our next regular school board meeting is Monday April 14th at 5:30 close session 6:30 is open session we have a special school Bo school board meeting next week Wednesday March 19th at 6:30 now is that open is that okay that's at the high school that's open if people want we're going to talk about the Strategic are we going to be in the library realized that was at the SCH oh I put it as the school district I too high school library so it's at the high school library okay at 6 we all look to our mom30 I thought to 6:30 I think said Mom well that's what I'm like that Mo mom same thing um our Personnel committee is Thursday
143April 3rd at 4:30 uh followed by a policy which will be April 3rd at 6 o'clock although you think we might not have if there is one okay so public please check caught on a lot of stuff unless somebody um our curriculum committee meeting is Tuesday March 18th next week at 4:30 and that is followed by facility and finance committee which is same date March 18th at 6 o'clock I will not I will be out of town for the 14th so I'll have the Google meet in I'll be in Utah oh for our our board me in April yeah April one April 15 I'm not gonna zoom in because I'll be in the I'll be my daughter will be recovering from her ultra marathon so okay so I don't believe we have to go back
144into closed then I will make a motion to adjourn no second motion to adjourn by Sarah Rish second by Adam any more discussion all in favor I anyone opposed motion passes 70 have a great night e