001Item 5.9, the 5-year district library plan up to uh item number 5.15. And uh with that, uh I would look for a motion to approve the agenda with changes announced. >> With a second, all those in favor. >> All right. Please stand for the pledge of >> allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Uh we do have one public comment tonight. So Tim, whenever you're ready. >> Yep. Please. >> Um just got a couple of things here. nothing pressing, but they're doing a building study now. Um, is it a building study or is it a geographical more of a outlying study with the outlying perimeters of this the districts?
002I guess my my thing is um I keep hearing that I've watched a couple of the um uh joint meetings and it sounds like Mr. green is kind of I don't know pushing just for a building study. I think we need to do a complete study the surrounding areas. >> So real quick, we did meet with the consultants today and it will be on the agenda which we will talk to. One of the questions we did ask is are they going to look at district boundaries and uh sensitivity as to where in proximity people live and that is something they are going to review as part of the study. >> Great. That'd be great. Yeah. Okay. Uh, another thing, um, if we would have the school in Greenwood, I know you guys have no idea
003where the schools are. I understand that. But if this, if you take, let's say, the high school, middle school to Greenwood, you are going to lose probably 50, 60 kids from because majority of the people work in Marshville. I don't think they're going to take their kids to Greenwood, come back or work in Marshfield. I mean, we lose 50 60 kids, that's a half million plus in revenue. And if you're not thinking you won't pass a referendum now, if we stay independent, you're not going to pass a referendum if it goes up that high. And I don't know where the savings will be if we don't close down at least one building. We can't keep all three. I don't in my my perspective. Um I keep saying we because I'm a part of it too.
004I mean I feel I am cuz this is a big thing. Um I just want you to keep in mind if if if that referendum, you know, when the joint comes up, if it's if it's up even $5, it can pass. And my fear is once you lose these kids, they ain't coming back. If they don't come back, we're going to lose both schools. I can see it. They may not be in our time, but we're going to lose both schools. I fear that we need to do this smart. We need to do it, I think, where I mean, we are the bigger school. Nothing against Greenwood, but there's nothing there's nothing west of Greenwood for businesses, big businesses kind of generally coming this way. I feel we don't want to lose both. We don't
005want to lose one school. We definitely don't want to lose both schools. So that's just just my thoughts on it. Take it around for what it's worth. >> Just simp simple clarification before we get to the agenda topic tonight. Uh I was extremely impressed with the consultants today and uh they have ideas and plans for community involvement throughout this whole study where you know you're going to be a perfect candidate for an opportunity to talk to the consultants because ultimately what they said today is the plan that is put in place isn't going to be by the boards. It's going to be by what they've heard from the public. Um, okay. >> And when we get to that point, I I'm really excited about what I learned today, actually. >> I think we really need
006to do a geographic open. >> Thank you. >> Any other public comment? Uh, moving to consent agenda items. As we've done in the previous meetings, I'd look for approval of the minutes of the October board meeting, the approval of the policy committee meeting on October 27th, and the approval of the November 3rd special joint board meeting minutes all as one. >> I'll make that motion. Tom makes that motion. >> Second by Crystal. All those in favor and it's approved. Financial reports. >> Okay. Balances are as of October 31st, 2025. In the general fund balance, we have $842,474.61. Capital projects balance is $37,493.84 and the checking balance is 599. $23.40. >> Any questions on the financial reports? Hearing none. Motion to approve. >> Nikki with Matt. All those in favor? >> I motion carries. New business.
0075.1. Presentations. Who would you like to go first? Who would like to go first? Don't all stand up. Club. Are you going to do the whole thing in Spanish? >> Well, I wish there we were going to, but we wanted you guys to understand. >> I appreciate that. >> I'm Wolf and we're here to tell you about our trip to Panama this June. Um, so we're all going to say a little bit about each day. The first day I'll start um after we got there, met our host families because we all stayed in a house with a Spanish speaker, little English spoken, so that was pretty cool actually. Um first day got up, had breakfast with in our host family. Um we're taken to the school where we met every day. Um I believe first
008we went shopping. Uh they gave us a list of items in Spanish and we uh were tasked with finding them. Uh they were all for an orphanage that we would later visit uh in a few days like um cleaning supplies, baby food, just things like that they asked for needed. Um we then got on a bus. We had we were with another school like six kids and we had a shared bus every day. We went to the Panama Canal. Um saw the locks where the ships go in and are and are lowered and then um that was pretty cool. Very hot. Uh before that we did watch a movie about how it was built, what it all took. Lot like just the history was very interesting. Um, I think then every night we went back
009home for supper with our host families. Then we skipped I skipped to the last day because this was personally my favorite. Um, we took a about an hour bus ride to what seemed like the middle of nowhere. um met these indigenous people that took us in wooden canoes with motors on the back, but wooden canoes. We hopped in down this massive river in between these huge mountains. I swear I feel like I was supposed to be on a National Geographic show. It was amazing. So then we stopped uh hiked a little bit into this waterfall and we got to hop in and swim and it was just the most incredible thing I've ever seen. Uh they then took us back out down the river some more to the their indigenous village. They gave us a
010tour um showed us how they basically make everything at this village to live. their clothes, um, medicine. They gave us these little things and said, "Lick it." And [laughter] all of our tongues went numb. And so they you take they make their own medicine for when they have like accidents and they need to perform surgeries to make them numb. And then they also gave us plants to put lipstick on. So that was fun, especially for Ben, who's not here, but the only guy that's on the trip had some lipstick. Um, yeah. And then we ate there. Fish, fruit, things that they eat every day. Um, and then they gave us um non-permanent tattoos on our hands which were really cool. They lasted for about a week afterwards. And then we danced in big circles with
011all these people. It was amazing. That was my favorite part. The second day. Okay. The second day we uh went ziplining. So there were about seven lines and every line it got like either steeper or it was like farther. And the craziest part was the waterfall. They stopped us halfway through the line if you wanted. But they stopped you halfway through and then you could like turn to the side and there was like a big waterfall and it was pretty cool. And then every stop there was like workers helping us like get through and stuff. And then after we shopped in the a traditional market where they had like we tried water water right out of a coconut and then we there was like homemade bags, crafts, they tried to buy us like sell us
012everything and then fresh fruits from all over. >> Who are you? >> All right. I'm Julia Reed and I have the day we went to Costco. So we basically toured the city and they have this really big metropolitan cath cathedral of Cosic of Santa Maria the ancient oldest church in Panama and it's this really big gorgeous church and they have the what they call the golden al altar. So it's made just like giant altar all gold and they have all the history there and we walked through the town and it was super cool and then we went uh shopping and we had a picnic there after we did all that. I'm viral. Um, like I said, we went and we got groceries for the orphanage and later in the week, we went and brought them
013to them. There was different age groups. They were split by age, like groups one, ages 1 to four, 5 to 6, 7 to 8. Um, we initially spent I initially spent time with the younger kids and we like played with toys building blocks and then I helped feed them and then at the end we all played volleyball in a big group and then we went to the beach a different day and we got to enjoy a nice relaxing day at the beach where we swam in both the ocean and a pool. We played toss with a beach ball and we had plenty of fun to share and a lot of memories. Um, I'm Anaka Schlly and on our last day, which is probably more of my favorite day, we traveled out to something called the
014Monkey Island and the Sloth the Sloth Sanctuary. And at the Monkey Island, we all got in these boats and we traveled to a bunch of little different islands where they would kind of just crash right up on a shore and they would give us like grapes and other fruits and we would hold them out in our hands and the monkeys would jump off the island, climb on our boats and like come take the stuff straight out of our hands. So we have to see a bunch of different species like that. And then one time they would just the whole time the people driving the boats just have the best eyes ever. I would want to take them hunting with me because I don't see much. But [laughter] so they would drive and they would just
015be able to point out everything that I would never have been able to see. And like one time we went and this was an iguana. It's the largest iguana only iguana I've ever seen jumped onto our boat. And even the guys are like, "Oh, this has never happened. We don't really know how to get it off." So we were stuck there for a little bit. And then we also went to the sloth sanctuary and it was a butterfly farm and we like went through and saw the different butterflies native and a bunch of different kinds of frogs and the sloths they say they like um they re habilitate them and then they'll bring them in the wild but some of them just come back on their own and try to join back in. And then
016later that day, we went to salsa dance lessons, which was in a downtown like skyscraper building where this lady taught us how to do all the different traditional dances. And then our last like final night there, we all went out to eat at this fancy restaurant and like they would bring up people and they'd like, "Where are you guys from? Where are you from?" And they'd ask a bunch of groups and then you would go up in front of everyone and have to like dance and it was just kind of a big old dance party. [clears throat] Um, so really we're here to tell you what we did, but also to say thank you for approving the trip and giving us this amazing experience. We're so grateful and we hope that you improve future trips
017because this is by far the greatest thing I've ever done. All of us probably. And we really appreciate it. So, thank you. >> Thank you. I got a couple questions. [laughter] Panama Canal canal. How many times did they uh hire someone to get that accomplished? >> I don't know. I can tell you a lot of people died. >> You know how long it took? >> A long time. >> Watching the special on PBS. [laughter] >> Was it I don't know. Theodore >> Theodore >> or Franklin? It was a Roosevelt. [laughter] >> I think it took four different people. >> Yeah. >> All right, that's all. Thank you. [laughter] >> Thank you so much. >> You guys want to go now? >> Yep. No, >> I'm still waiting for my fruit. So, uh, I'm Mallerie Jacobe.
018This is Summer Smith and we're some officers on the FFA team this year and we're going to talk about some community service projects that we are planning on doing or have done. Uh, we planned them during our officer retreat this summer and yeah. Okay. So, first we were asked by Souls to participate in trunk or treat again this year. It was a very good turnout. We had around five volunteers who helped hand out candy, direct traffic, and decorate Mallerie's trunk to look like a farm. Um the next thing we did was um the chapter went to the cemetery to clean it up a little bit before Veterans Day. Um so we went to the um St. Anthony Cemetery and we had 18 volunteers um who either like weed whacked around the stones, picked up debris
019or just fixed flowers. Uh we also this past weekend went to the Clark County Humane Society. We had about 15 of our members and we got to play with the dogs and puppies and we helped learn how they care for them by watering, feeding, help cleaning up their pens. And then this afternoon, right after school, we had a few members help with we made some tie blankets and we're going to donate them to the Mayo Clinic for cancer patients. [laughter] >> All right. Hi, I'm Col. Um, this last month I got the chance to attend the National Convention Expo in Indianapolis, Indiana. Uh, while we were there, we got to tour three different places. Jaspersonson Sod where we went and learned how sod was farmed and how they retail it. And then McNamar Flores where
020we seen how they arranged flowers. And then the exotic feline rescue center where they we learned wildlife specialists um took took care of lions and tigers. And then we also got to attend sessions where we learned or where we got to see people get award get awards and then we got to listen to speakers. And we also got a career expo where there was businesses in different colleges where we could get free things and sign up. And then this convention really helped me grow as a leader and learned um and I got to and I was excited to see what I got back. My goodness. I was excited to bring what I got to learn and bring back to my chapter >> questions anyone. >> I wanted uh Coulter to address the fact that we
021have a state officer this year but he didn't want to like add that in on the fly. I was hoping that one of them would talk about it. Um but we do have a current state officer. So Parker Smith, graduate from last year, is serving as the Wisconsin FFA State Association's vice president this year. And so that's been a really cool experience for our members because I feel like it's a really big motivation to see someone serving at the state level and they've got to go to a lot of workshops that he's facilitated and that's just really cool to see like a leader produced from um from our chapter and see him in that capacity. And then thank you for all of you that bought fruit from our FFA members. We had a really successful
022fruit sale. And then the only other thing I wanted to mention while I was here was that we have to or we get to host um our sectional leadership development event. And if any of you would like to be judges, please let me know because we're always looking for judges for all our events because we need three for each event and that ends up being quite a few community members. So if any of you would like to be a judge, please let me know. Wednesday for everyone. >> March 2nd. I believe it should be a Monday. >> Do you know what time? >> It starts right after school. And depending if you're a lucky person, you might get done early or it might go till like 7 if it's a long contest. But we give
023you all the materials ahead of time and rubrics so that you know what to expect and aren't thinking of it on the fly. >> That's it. >> Thank you. Well, next on the agenda, 5.15, the 5-year district library plan. I guess I can clear a room with [laughter] >> Do you have it on your screen or do you need >> I take slow but I got >> I'm good. Thank you. keep shutting down. >> So, the library is required by the administrative code. It is a state statute that we need to have a five-year library plan. So, my goal is to present the plan to you tonight. And I would hope that you would approve it so that we can submit it to DPI tomorrow or soon. Um, our funding for the library is part
024of this code. So we have to make sure that we are in compliance with the code moving forward. So the library mission statement to inspire a lifelong love of reading and to ensure that each and every student learns effectively. We achieve this by providing equitable access to diverse resources, fostering skills in the ethical and efficient use of information, and integrating technology to support curiosity, critical thinking, and creativity in a dynamic learning environment. So, I've listed some of our um resources. The links are there. I've included our strategic plan as it is currently posted on the website. um everything that the library does needs to connect back to the school. So I based the report on the future ready framework. You can see the different um wheels but everything is student centered. So, curriculum instruction, assessment,
025personalized professional learning, robust infrastructure, budget resources, community partnerships, data privacy, collaboration, learning, and use of time and space. Those all come back to the kids being at the center. So, I picked out four goals that focus on some of those wheels. >> [clears throat] >> The first page is just kind of an overview of the goals. So, if you flip to where it actually says goal one and it has the trivia pursuit wedges. The first goal is fostering a love of reading and learning. Currently, we are working with the title one department. They've sponsored a mystery sort of program this year and [clears throat] we've highlighted that in the library and we have seen increased use of the kids. Jamie has set up a display and kids will come in and say, "Hey, I need
026a new mystery book." "Oh, they're over here." Or, "Have you tried this one?" So, that has been very successful for us. Moving forward, we want to continue to work with Title One on their themes. Their next theme will be science fiction and space and non-fiction. So, again, we'll set up displays. We'll encourage kids to follow through on that love of learning. We are also hosting three Battle of the Books teams this year. Um, I'm not sure if we have a middle school team, but we definitely have a high school team. And we have a lot of interest in a elementary squad. So, we might even have to do a in-house competition first. So, Battle of the Books is you read 30 books or so, and then you compete and answer questions with schools from out
027the state. It's a virtual competition, but you compete and see if you can answer the questions. This is the first year that we've ever had a team. So, I'm really excited. Again, I'm working with Pam Smith on instilling that love of learning. We had to pull out our battle of the book books uh because the kids wanted them so badly and Mrs. Wolf was putting them on hold and she lost track. She's like, "They are right here. Whatever I have is in that spot, but you have to just get lucky that it's here today because we had so much participation." So, the state um competition is in February. In my program, I have really engaging readalouds. I choose picture books to read to K5, but they are about famous people maybe when they were younger.
028They have engaging pictures. They have engaging vocabulary. They all connect back to a common core standard and I want to continue to do that. I think the kids really get excited. I read a book called Tech and it actually looks like a little iPad and it's a caveman who his tech dies and his world kind of ends. That book has been circulating for about three months because the kids are so excited to read it. So, we do also help with the staff connection for book bingo. When the book bingo comes out, staff members will come in and say, "Hey, I need a book that fits 400 pages. That's my topic of the day. So, I talked about the future goals of continuing to work with Title One. I've also established a relationship with the new
029public library director. So, we're looking forward to do some fun things um with our kids down there. She'd like to come in and perhaps do a recycled book bag. So, you take a t-shirt and you make it into a book bag and then she would like to run some sort of competition. if you bring your book bag to the public library. So, I'm looking forward to that partnership as well. So, goal number two is maintaining a diverse and accessible collection. The biggest goal in this section is I want to do a diversity audit. I really want to dig in to our collection and I want to make sure that we have all of the cultures represented and I want to make sure that we have authors that are relevant, that our content is current and
030up to-date. So that will be a big project on my end but um our software program is very helpful in doing it but I really want to dig in and then I want to spend a lot of our 20% of our funds to make sure that I have adequate diverse collection. This year we have Sora which is audio books and ebooks. So I have to roll this out a little bit. We need to work on some PR so that the kids know we have it, but they can read anywhere, anytime with these audio books and electronic books. So, I'm really really excited that we have Sora. We used to have Overdrive and it was fine, but Sora is kind of the next thing geared towards kids and all of our Overdrive accounts rolled in to
031Sora. their sister companies. So now we have more access and we pay into the state system. So the state the kids have [clears throat] access to more books because they're using a wider variety of things. Goal number three is to encourage digital citizenship and media across all grade levels. I think we are very blessed to have Christine Guyer as a computer literacy teacher and I know that she covers these things K5. I get a little nervous in the middle school, high school because I know that we've taught it to them, but when I see them working on research reports or doing anything with the device, I still worry about citing their sources correctly and being a user of the information. Just because you can take a picture off the internet doesn't mean that you should.
032So, as a goal for that, I would really like to see um some digital skills carried through into the middle school and high school really um enforcing the academic honesty policy and as those situations come up, I can be a resource for those things as well. And then number four is being a resource for professional learning. I want to help the staff in the school in any way that I can. I have a strong professional library collection. As we learn about new things in the world of education, I try to purchase books on them, AI, um, project based learning, whatever the staff really needs from me. But I don't know that the staff give me very much feedback. So, I would love to have them come to me with what they need, maybe by creating
033an actual survey. I know the staff do not want to fill out another survey, so that's one of the barriers, but I want to make sure that our collection reflects what the staff needs as much as what the students need. Um, lots of the services that we subscribe to, Sora, Discovery Education, they all offer professional development, but sometimes it's hard to get it scheduled and to get people to come to a library session, but I hear it a lot. I didn't know the library had that. So part of that is marketing on my fault, but it is also I need to make sure people know that we have these great resources and I need to train them how to use it so that we are getting the most beneficial out of those programs. So do
034you have any questions on the library plan? I would like to make it a two-year plan where we review it in the odd years. I think if we review it every two years, we will always be in compliance cuz I'll date it for five. But I also feel a two-year plan makes it more useful. Traditionally, in the past, this plan would be created, it would be approved, it would be put on a binder, and and we would dust it off 5 years later. I would really like this to be an active living plan that we can change and adapt so that it is really meeting the requirement but doing what it's meant to do and helping our staff and students. >> You had you had talked about the the academic honest honesty policy. Yeah. >>
035And in regards to AI and AI >> kind of changing everything and the Chad How how in your role is that monitored? How do you see that all fitting in with this? >> At the high school level, I don't see it at all. And it scares me >> a lot. I am taking a AI course. It's about 36 hours of videos and reflection that I'm just choosing to do actually for my public library certification, but it all rolls together. And the amount of information that is available is crazy. and the goods and bads of that is amazing. Um, there's a little help from AI in this report, but I'm afraid of the kids that don't know how to use it correctly. And I don't know how to fix that, especially on a part-time schedule where
036I don't see high school kids at all. But I'm afraid that our high school kids are using it and it is a huge timesaver. But I'm afraid where we draw that line of is it yours and you tweaked it >> right or did you just depend on it? >> Mhm. >> Yeah. >> There are some educational AI tools that we are exploring which is great but the kids still use chat a lot. Um, my daughter is a college sophomore senior right now and some of her assignments actually are said, "Run it through chat before you submit it to me." So, I I'm her mom and she gets like kind of mad at me. I'm like, "Mom, the assignment said I had to use chat." I'm like, "Okay, but can you run it through Goblin Tools,
037too, to see if it's the same answer?" So, I need to do some more. I I know I know AI and I know what it does, but Travis and I maybe need to do some ways to make sure that our kids [cough] know [clears throat] just because you can doesn't mean you should. But it is a huge time saver. But I do worry about the plagiarism [clears throat] piece. And if we wanted to make that a bigger priority goal, we definitely could because it's it's not going away, >> right? [cough and clears throat] >> But our kids need to know how to function in an adult world, in a job that will require them to use it in a respectful, responsible way. If I may ask, once you complete that course, if you could maybe
038report back finds what or recommendations. Yes. And then it gives all of us and and teachers included, you know, some guidance as to how to approach AI and the use of it in our schools. >> I am way in the deep end now. Um, I am designing a business plan complete with marketing and graphics and all the things. And that's wonderful. It's not what I need right now, although I do have some marketing to work on, but it is really digging in deep to the demographics of what AI can do. And sometimes it just scares me. And I've noticed that my computer acts a little differently now after I've done some of these searches. And that part makes me kind of nervous too. Like there's just a lot to think about. But it is the
039world that we are using and we have to use it respectfully. Any other questions? >> Just want to say thank you for putting this together for >> Excellent. I do like your idea of a a two-year living document. >> Agreed. So, I'll come back in 2027. It would also be great to have a committee to help with this a little bit. But >> elaborate on that a little bit. What do you mean? What do you mean like a committee to help implement? >> Yes. Because I see my library. I see my library and I know my library really, really well. I don't get into the high school English class. I know elementary fairly well, but I've never seen the middle school history class. So, what I need is in the plan, but I would really
040love to know what the school needs >> in the plan as well. >> We will definitely look into that. >> Thank you. >> All right. >> Are we taking action then? >> Yes, please. >> Yep. >> Okay. If there's no further questions, I would like to make a motion to approve the library plan for two years >> as presented. >> This motion made >> reviewed in two make a new one. Sorry. Nope. Okay. I would like to make a motion to approve the library plan for 5 years as presented >> and reviewed in two. >> Motion and a second. All those in favor? >> I motion carries. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. Let's move to the varsity baseball coach. >> So tonight go ahead. Go ahead. Uh so tonight um we are
041going to make the recommendation to hire Dean Bogdanovich uh as our next varsity baseball coach. >> Do you coach baseball here before? >> He was part of the program last year um as an assistant coach. >> He did. >> What? >> He did it years ago. >> Yeah. >> I don't think he was the head coach. I think he was assistant. Yeah. And then he's also in the basketball program, too. So, he's coached quite a few sports for us in the past. >> Any questions on Dean being hired as the varsity baseball coach? >> Motion to approve. >> I'll make the motion. >> Motion and the second. All those in favor? >> Motion carries. Uh JB girls basketball coach. >> Yeah. So, um, the reason that this is back on the agenda tonight is because
042at the last meeting, I believe, or maybe the meeting before, we had approved, um, Mark Reef to be the JV girls assistant, and he is no longer, um, able to do a JV girls basketball. So, tonight, we'd like to recommend Logan Fweiler as our JV girls basketball coach. I'll make the motion to approve Logan as JB girls basketball coach. >> Second. >> Motion and a second. All those in favor? >> Motion carries. Special education paraprofessional and daycare assistant. >> I'm going to recommend the approval of hiring Steven Arch as a special ed parah and Destiny Blank for the part-time daycare assistant. >> Just to clarify, Mr. another special ed pair position that's been posted for a while, right? This is >> Yes. >> Okay. >> So, we've had a couple students move in then >>
043this is why [clears throat] this was >> I think it's been open for a while. Um but I think the need was >> continuous. Yep. >> Because of the amount of moveins that we've had. So, that the need was there. So, >> I'll make that motion to approve. Steven Arch for special professional and Destiny Blank as daycare assistant. >> Motion's been made. I need a second. >> A second. >> Motion in a second. All those in favor? >> Motion [snorts] carries. Approval of the 202526 property insurance renewal. >> So even I met with Jesse Ferd, our rep, um company that we've been with for many, many years. Um >> Jesse is who was here last year, right? Gave us a sales pitch. >> Correct. Okay. Correct. Um so last year it it stayed the same.
044This year there is a $5,000 increase. Uh it's moving from 82,152 to 87464. Couple reasons for that. Uh we added a building in the concession stand. we added a vehicle. Um the prices of everything have increased. Um so my recommendation would be to stay stay with this company at least through next November so we know what's going to happen from there. I I would probably recommend until 28 in July of 28 but but I would definitely recommend them for this next year or this year. Um Eva, you have anything else? We do get a uh what would you say a kickback? >> Well, we get when they workers comp, you know, part of that back and then we do get a dividend back which last year on the 82,000. Um the total was $6,629 we
045got back. So >> So it was really 75,500. So, I would assume we would probably get slightly more back this year unless we haven't made a claim or something, which hopefully we will not. >> Yep. I would entertain a motion. >> I'll make a motion for one more year with >> EMC to enter this school for the 25 26 school year. Motion's been made. >> I'll second. >> Second. All those in favor? >> Opposed? >> Motion carries. >> Spring elections. Go ahead. >> Um the notice for spring election was put out today. It's in the paper today. Uh Derek and Tom are up for re-election next year. So that's been posted. Um if either of you are not intending on um running again, then please let me know by December 26th. Otherwise, we have to
046extend that date by another 3 days. You know, anyone else that wants to run has till just January 6th. But if you guys don't let us know by December 26th that you're not running, then we have to extend that date. So, if anyone isn't, let me know. If not, then I'll see you fill out your paperwork. So, and the positions are uh Derek is city of Loyal and Tom is area south of Highway 98. So, those are the two positions. Okay. So, just a clarification [clears throat] strategic plan. >> All right. So, I said the committee was going to meet then the committee did not meet yet. All right. So, we will meet. We do not have a report for tonight, but we will meet here early December and we will make sure that we
047have something for the board on our next meeting. [clears throat] Okay. Got a lot of things going on in the last three weeks. So, my motion great sharing. >> Okay. Um, Sunday night, uh, the board and myself went down to Granton and, um, had a joint meeting with Granton and talk just talked in general how we can work together, uh, and talked and had a discussion of whole grades sharing. Um, whole grade sharing is very new uh, to people to districts. A couple things that um we are what we discussed was hold short a whole grade sharing uh between the two of us uh with 7th through 12th 9th through 12th um and just had a discussion about it. Um and a couple things that came up. Uh they are going to meet new Grant
048is meeting with um Greenwood tonight and then Neilsville next Monday or Tuesday. Correct. >> Same thing talking about over sharing and and some other thing or how they can work together. Uh after looking up uh from DPI where whole grade sharing is um so this is fairly new. Um if there if we are looking at doing this uh we are meeting again December 1st with Granton in a joint meeting. Uh a couple things that need to be done. Um the agreement has to be signed and approved by February 15th um to do it for the 26 27 school year. Uh and it has to have a resolution 60 days prior to that. So with the resolution in talking with Bob Butler from WASB um that is very similar to resolution we talked about with consolidation.
049It is a statement um saying that we are going to um enter whole grade sharing and then we need to explain or or list what we're looking for what grades. All right. Uh following state statute 118.50. So, um, so there is there is a time crunch. Um, Granton had a special board meeting last night. Um, they just kind of went over their finances and talked about operational referendum, talked about whole grade sharing with with about 45 or 50 people there. So, um, I think they're exploring. Um, I do believe they are going to listen. uh they had some feedback at the meeting and they are they are listening to what their constituents community members are responding to them. So they are throwing out stuff at them as of today already and got quite a bit
050of response. So um we will see what's what the next week brings and we will talk more on December 1st. Um, so I don't know how in depth you want to go or if you guys want to say anything about full grade sharing. It is new. Um, there is a a possible bill out there that is being or has been introduced to education committee um to help fund this with $500 per student um for every year that you're doing this. It's an annual thing. So you do it for one school year, then you would do the same thing February 15th or December 17th or 18th, you would up it or resolution February 15th, renew [clears throat] it. So um that that determines what's going to happen the following year. And and I believe DPI is
051pretty stringent on their time. They will not give any extensions. So if it doesn't happen by February 15th or December 17th, it will not happen for next year. So any questions or any comments? >> I think the one thing I would add is if the boards between Loyal and Grant entered into this agreement, we would then negotiate the the whole grade sharing contract and that's where the the uh that's where the agreement comes into play. and uh you can negotiate things like uh price per student essentially and that's where the negotiations take place. None of the negotiations have started. Um Monday was an exploratory meeting and again Grant had a meeting last night and has officially looked at their numbers and they're going to have to meet again. Um so we are a long ways
052from negotiating but this could take place in a relatively fast manner. Um but there is benefits and one other clarification this is Granton students coming to Loyal. This would not be uh vice versa. The whole grade sharing would take place from Granton bringing their kids to Loyal. Um and then the negotiation would take place um from there. So I think that's an important thing. One thing that I would just want to add too um is that um when meeting with the grant and board and just having the conversations um we have to remember that we're we're also talking about students here. we're talking about. So, yes, we're talking about money and dollars and things like that, but these are um high school potentially high school students who this might be a sensitive area for them
053in the sense that, you know, where where are they going to go next year, you know, and I I just hope that as a community and loyal if the negotiations happen between Loyal and Granton that we can um work something out and that they feel comfortable and welcome coming to our building because um at the end of the day, they are students and they deserve to have um an education just like our loyal students do. So I know this is u financially driven but at the end of the day I just want to keep in mind that um these are kids families and hopefully um if we do come to a resolution or an agreement that we can welcome them into our district with open arms and and that they feel welcome here if that's
054the if that's what needs to happen. So you talk about it's you know it is about money but this is the future of our communities. We hope that they stick around here. So um I think the whole intention is how can we work together? How can we help each other? Um and this came up. So um you know like I said it's relatively new. Um we looked a little research on in Iowa. So, and that's where Wisconsin got or DPI got a lot of their information and kind of modeled from the Iowa model. So, >> has never been done in the state of Wisconly new. >> So, we I believe are one of the firsts that are looking at it. >> Anything else? We miss anything from the meeting? I thought the meeting was was
055good. I I enjoyed the conversation. >> Yeah. I just think with this we put more opportunities for the kids. I mean, it's got to be a win financially for both school districts for it to go and we know it should be a win for the kids, you know, welcoming with open arms. >> Anything else on that? >> You good? >> We're good. >> All right. 5.8 uh discussion of possible action on the old policies. So, the policy committee met with uh Todd Anthony. Uh he is Niola's rep, our rep for Niola. Uh he came in uh and I don't know if you have it in your board docs, you probably do. Um what was updated that day already? Um what we're looking for or what the committee is recommending is that we approve those updates.
056with that. Um he will be back in maybe January uh to give us a second round of [clears throat] updates and then um I believe he and I and Mr. Green are going to sit down and take a look at employee handbooks and and um student handbooks and see how we can work together on that. Um, but each each would still be their district's their own district's employee and student handbook. But there are very there's many similarities that we could utilize and put that to rest. But there are some differences would keep to each district's own handbook. >> You got anything there? The main thing on on the update was just a lot of legal law changes and different inage like a new dictionary. >> So we would need this. >> Yes. >> Any questions
057on the policy updates? Motion to approve. I'll make that motion. Kirk makes the motion. >> Second by ma'am. All those in favor. >> Opposed. Motion carries. >> Joint school board meeting. Joint board meeting with Greenwood on November 12th. >> Great. Um just reporting a little bit on that. Um uh both boards approved the hiring of Myron and HSR to do the study facility study. We've called it I think it's more than that but we'll call it the facility study. Um today we had um >> kickoff kickoff [clears throat] meeting with with them and kind of a a core team of of Derek myself Brad Graphender our facilities maintenance supervisor and then uh Mr. Green, Jamie Gardner, and their Joel uh Suda and Shane Rasmus and their their maintenance guys that are in control of their
058two buildings. So, um I thought it was a very good meeting. Uh they had they had everyone there plus one that was at the interview. So, they had six people there today. Correct. Six. All right. Uh very thorough. just kind of laid out what what it looked like for the next uh their goal is to be done in in April. um five. Okay. Um so laid things out. Um responded to questions that were at the interview. um just that this is a a a major study and and like Eric said the Tim um really talked about um population areas, location, where people live, um bus routes and kind of got into some information that now we have to go back and get that information to them. really stressed um community engagement, a task force or
059ad hoc comm um that would be involved in in where this would go. Um so, and be a major part of that. And that's what they talked about in our interview with them um was that community engagement and it was really communitydriven on how how the plan was going to kind of be. Um and we also talked about hey ju what the first year might be this and it might phase [clears throat] into other things for the first three four or five years. So um to be the most efficient [clears throat] that we possibly can. They did take a quick tour of Greenwood's facilities. Um they've been in our facility know for the most part what it's what it's about. Um they will be sending engineers to thoroughly go through all the buildings. Um I
060would say probably in December when we have break um and and kind of go from there. But [clears throat] uh they contacted us the day after they were approved and and said let's move let's get this going. Um, so I think I think we made a very good choice and u excited for for the opportunity to work with them some more. You got anything on today's meeting? >> Yeah, I can't say enough how impressed I was today. On on Friday, I had actually emailed Joe and Chris five questions that I had worries about for the study. And I was telling Kirk when I got here tonight, they did not know those questions and they answered all five of them during the meeting today. I was very impressed by that. Um, very professional. Clearly, they've done
061this before. Um, at our next joint board meeting, they are going to spend an hour with both boards together and talk about what they called the uh the engagement model, and they're going to work on that over the next 15 days or so. And they're going to kind of lay out how they see this plan going. They were very timeline driven and we'll all get this, but they they've worked it back from that August one deadline of when they want to have this this process to us ready to go. April one, sorry. Um, and it they they asked a lot of questions about his history history of both districts. When did consolidation start? When did we talk about it? What has worked? What hasn't worked? Uh, sports teachers, it it was impressive. even on the
062the side of the buildings. The reason why they're going to do these tours when the students aren't here is because they're going to use a 3D scanner and come in and scan every room and then the measurements are 100% accurate. So, um, but even from just a facility standpoint, they are going to be looking outside of facilities. They wanted the addresses of all the current district, all the kids in each district, and that'll be a map that they can create. It's again I was extremely impressed today. So I'll ask you I sent you some questions I asked them during the thing we were and I guess I call it a comprehensive plan meaning I want to see you the entire plan together as far as we said population densities geographical areas of things you know
063think you said you were very impressed and that's we had >> those were the questions that came up they brought them to us and said hey this is this came up at the interview all right so we are going to extensively look at everything that has been brought up to us >> and that's I'm asking you felt the same way today with that. That's I felt good. We we had a timeline for them and it was we didn't give them much time. We didn't have a whole lot of time. We tried to ask a lot of questions. We didn't spend time but there was so much information that when they answered there was a lot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But we didn't really get in depth. So that's what I wanted to ask you. You felt
064that when you met with them they were going to follow through. >> I was very impressed today. >> Yep. >> Um so moving on uh from the meeting planning [clears throat] committee um reported. Do you want to take it down? >> Sure. >> I'll just give a little recap on the branding committee. Uh this information was shared uh some of it was shared last week at the joint meeting as well. Um I think there was a little bit of concerns today uh regarding some of the information. So I really want to do my best to clarify some of that information. So uh Eliza Rusik and I um she's the Greenland board member. We are overseeing the branding committee. Uh this committee is made up of about 14 community members equal representation from both and west.
065We met on the 3rd of November for our initial meeting and Eliza and I came up with an agenda that just kind of highlighted what the purpose of the committee was and what we were hoping to achieve. The purpose of this committee is to come up with a new identity for a potential consolidated district. So, our job on the board is to come up with this plan to take to the public next summer. And included in that plan, we want to have a name and a mascot colors. Um, so we have some identity for this plan. Um the committee talked about mission statements and core values of both districts and are looking at ways to put that together um for a unified mission statement and core values in the event that the binding question in
066November does pass. Um we also talked as a committee about how it's important to engage the community in this process. So we want to make sure that everyone feels like their ideas are heard, valued, and considered. So the committee uh collectively agreed to gather as many ideas as we possibly could. So this included sending out an email to all middle school and high school students uh with a link where they could submit their ideas. Uh all staff at both schools. Uh there will be a flyer going home with the elementary students at both districts where parents or whoever in the house can snip off the bottom and send back their idea to the offices. um Facebook posts in both districts, uh information on websites. I believe a Remind message was sent out tonight, right? Um
067where you can enter your information. Um all >> I had to put a link on it. They said the link I just got a Remind saying, >> huh? >> Say it went out. >> We did. They missed it. Okay. So the link the link is now live. So what happens um with that link or all of those ideas um it goes to an email address that Eliza and I have access to. So we're the only people that do and then the the program itself where the survey is being taken puts all of the ideas into an Excel spreadsheet on its own which is really awesome and timesaving for us. Um, so I just wanted to um also remind you that all the ideas must be submitted by January 5th and then as a committee we're
068going to compile these lists, bring them back together. January 7th, we meet again and we're just going to determine how we're going to narrow it down and what that process looks like. Um, I just want to re reiterate that this information is being gathered by the committee so everybody has a chance to come up with a name. Uh, this information needs to be put into the plan um, prior to next summer. So, our jobs um as as the board and as this committee is to come up with a plan and that's what the the nonbinding vote told us to do. So, that's what we're doing. Um so, I hope that people continue to um submit their ideas to last time I checked today, we had about a hundred ideas already today. uh lots of creative
069ones and we will as a committee look forward to going through those and then um after that meeting in January kind of decide all right what's next for you guys how are we going to get the community community to narrow this down or what that looks like we're not quite sure yet but um stay tuned for more information regarding that and we look forward to hearing your ideas >> thank you >> um also we have like a committee business partnership uh that took a couple tours of White Hall which is uh has really changed their I shouldn't say changed yes they changed their tech uh or moved their traditional teched to Blair Taylor with their teacher and they have developed um a more of an emerging technology um type of a teched so what I
070mean by that is Solid Works a lot of AutoCAD drones robots um and they're in a four school consortium with three others that uh it was it was good very good um and I think what this committee is is basically taking things and seeing what's out there um and trying to develop something here with with our with our consolidation collaboration so our kids have some opportunities uh just like that. Um, and instead of having two two districts as of right now buying the same equipment and let's let's share let's let's that's part of the efficiency. Let's see what we can do. >> Um, Tom, did you you want to talk more about that? So, we'll be we'll also be um coming together with um businesses to get some ideas on what what they're looking for
071to help uh in that regard. And uh we'll have more concrete information at the next joint meeting and and what the plans are moving forward so that we have some you know further um information to be part of the plan going forward. >> Yes. So Eliza Rusek was on the on the trip also did put together a um would you say PowerPoint or video? Um so I will we can share that with you. Um, and we also had uh a group of elementary, higher elementary, middle school teachers go to uh Whiteall and sit in their middle school, higher elementary classes where they are they do not like to use the word AI. They like to use the word emerging technologies where they sat in and looked at math and ELA um and how they're uh
072how they're teaching it and they I don't want to put you on the spot, but if you want to say anything. >> Sure. >> Okay. >> So, um right now they are doing grades two through middle school. So, 8th grade all with um personalized learning where they're using programs um similar to our that we use for intervention. So kids are able to go on there and either be challenged if they're able to complete grade level standards um and complete and challenge themselves without an end in sight. So not everybody's sitting and getting the same information. Where on the other side, if a kid is struggling with content, this program will go back to what they need. So if it's basic math facts versus multiplication and division, it is geared towards their level of learning. Um
073what we noticed and saw was they had a menu. They called it a math menu. So on this math menu there was six stations and the teacher basically had a must do which was this personalized learning program. Um again similar to it's I think it's called Alex there if I recall. And there was also some mayus. So they would do two 15inut or three 20 minute um time limits depending on their time frame that they had available. Uh students had a choice of what they wanted to do at that time. The teacher would let's say one of the mayos was flashcards and she would work with individuals at that station while kids worked independently on a computer program um that would basically teach them their math skills. So, it was interesting. Um, we have some
074second grade and um, our fourth grade teachers have dabbled kind of looking at what that possibly could look like for math um, in reflection with their English or ELA teacher. They felt it was a little bit more of a challenge right now to do personalized learning with that um, because they also have CQLA. Um, so they're learning too as they go. Um, so it's interesting. The teachers were really excited. I guess my big takeaway was talking to a veteran teacher after 30 years that was super excited and really wanting to just like she felt refreshed and re revived to teach science and social studies in a way she always wanted to. So she was able to take the big ideas from CKLA, reiterate it, make big projects that the students weren't part of and um
075so it was just interesting. It was good. So the big thing that we get out of this and and Mike Begley came and talk and and you're for some it isn't some look at it and like oh you're you're replacing the teacher and that's not it. But Mike Begley talked he's a super white hall just re really reinforced the engagement piece of the students. He said it is unreal on what is I when we watched those kids come into the teched facility which was unbelievable. You'll see it on the video. Um, I'll share it with you. Um, it was it was they would come in and you're not just whiteall kids. It's three other districts. They just come in. It was more of a tech school. Come in with their backpack, sit down. Um, some
076would go over to the drones, start working on it. Some would work on uh uh robots. Uh, others went into AutoCAD. It was and they just went to work. There was no screwing around. There was and that's what he said even in the in the elementary and and that. So I think it was a very good exploration kind of an eye openener for some or most. Um I believe we are going to try to I believe a strong does some very similar things. Uh we're working on maybe taking some some teachers to that um that facility also. Um, we also saw Leo Strum's uh cardinal manufacturing which was very interesting um and just more hands-on uh uh learning. So this week we got together with Sheila Nyberg County Econ economics department and how can we
077move forward and where do we go and and we we got some wheels rolling talking to um some tech schools because it just doesn't seem like our tech schools want to work together. So getting more information and talking to them um and getting a list of of some businesses that we can invite to a to a sit down with um and and kind of narrow some pathways up. What's important here uh in our in our two communities or our surrounding areas of pathways obviously agriculture you talk about uh transportation, truck driving and and mechanics and all that. um health, uh food service. So, there's a lot of things that we have kind of taken a look at and how can we maybe narrow down and tackle one of them or or something like that. So,
078um there's some movement. Uh Sheila is very excited about it. So, that's a report on that. Uh also the both boards agreed or approved to continue leaving the live streaming up on uh the website websites >> website. >> YouTube the one. >> All right. What? Whatever. Okay. leaving it on online um up through the election in November of 2026 and then that can be discussed again from there. So they are available correct you said >> they are available at this time. So, uh, the next meeting is >> December 10th, 7:30 in Greenwood. >> We will have the um >> Myin meeting, >> my and HSR meeting before that at 6:30. So, 6:30 to 7:30 that will be >> So, we will now be doing a closed session. >> 6:30 6:30 is open. >> Correct. To
079the public. >> My will be correct. >> Yep. So the meeting starts at 6:30. >> 6:30 in Greenwood. >> Yep. For the Meerin engagement model discussion. Okay. Uh anything else on anyone else have anything else on that aspect? So there is a lot going on. I'll I'll save it for my report. Be quiet. >> All right. Other business, the principal's report. >> Um, so early November, we had Mike Evans here. Um, if you recall, that is the gentleman that is assisting us with our HRS um, framework. He met with our leadership team and just really laid out um, what our projected plan is long term. um looking at whether or not we renew this contract and if we do not what does that look like in order to maintain momentum forward um as a leadership
080team creating that safe environment for staff and students um having a viable curriculum and then proceeding on to make sure everything is aligned with a school with a system that is working in place. So, he was here, met with the team, met with us, um, gave us some tips on what to talk about in classrooms and what to look for that follows our model of instruction. So, he was here and got some good feedback. Um, our Veterans Day program was on November 11th where we honored all our veterans. I want to just do a big shout out to Miss Lee for putting that together for her first year. She did a really great job. Um, I know it's super stressful and there takes a lot of people to put things in place. Um, and she
081did a great job. Uh, we honored Joshua Schmidz and Connie Meyer was our guest speaker who did a really wonderful job highlighting all the great things about Josh and um, our students were great. We had elementary kids singing, high school kids singing and playing in the band. It was just a nice representation of all levels of kids. So, everybody did a really, really great job. Um Chris is going to highlight this, but we did get our state report card and I just kind of wanted to highlight some of the um big positives that we have going on within the district. So right now the district as well as each individual building. So elementary, middle, and high school meets expectations. Um you'll hear later on, but they realigned how they evaluated the schools. So, anything that
082has happened in the past, you cannot compare to this year's because it's different. Um, as was last year's. So, more details to come. But, three great things that we're doing is we really don't have any absenteeism problems. Kids are coming to school. It's a very small fraction of kids that are not here. Um, we have a high graduation rate. It's pretty close to near to the top. So, that is great. We are making sure all kids are prepared. um to be leaving. And the last highlight we have is postsecary preparation. So kids are coming out of our district career and college ready. And a lot of this information is coming from are they taking MTC credits? Are they getting um on job work release um hours? Those kind of things all play into that. So
083we rate it really high. Um an area of growth which is always going to be happening is working on closing academic gaps. So, kids that are struggling with learning, making sure that they're getting all the um interventions and attention that they need. Um so, that is one of our areas of focus going forward. So, um at the elementary, we want to give some shoutouts to our October uh PBIS golden ticket winners. Um so, they earn golden tickets and specialist classes by being respectful, responsible, safe, andor a learner. Um, and then all those golden tickets go into a live drawing. So, these students were selected uh for the month of October. So, congratulations to Wesley Frederick, Ellie Barlo, Greta Glebkkey, Aubrey Caspersonson, Nola Clemens, and Zachariah Weber. >> We had our Scholastic book fair, which I'm
084sure if you are parents, you know that that book fair, it brings in a lot of fun and excitement. So, um, that was highly attended. Um, Miss Hiding and Miss Wolf did an awesome job promoting it and having kids come in and just being super excited. Um, for CISA came in, did some STEM activities with some of our gifted and talented students. Uh, that was working with Miss Guyger and Miss Guyer. Um, they seem to have a really good time with that. So, big shout out to them. Um, do you want to do this? >> Sure. And then middle school, high school. Um, so here are our October uh, PBIS winners. So for middle school, our best effort and most improved, we had a tie between Ellie Atkins and Anna Waldhouser. Our loyal, proud student
085of the month is Axel Kind. And our overall student of the month is Cat Smith. Uh for high school, our best effort, most improved is Daniela Morales. Our loyal, proud student of the month is Eddie Wolf. And then our student of the month is Jacob Schmidt. Um, next thing we can talk about are our football allconerence award winners. Um, at our last meeting, these were not released yet. So, just wanted to say congratulations to the following athletes. Um, in the defensive um, positions. Um, Jake Lerhand was second team defensive line. Isaac Zable was honorable mention defensive back. Adam Coutzer was honorable mention linebacker. and Reed Stiglets was honorable mention defensive back. On the offensive side of the ball, congratulations to Kane Toear for being second team all-conference tight end. Colton Sandelier, uh, second team all-conference
086running back, Jackson Meyer, honorable mention lineman. Zack Kind, honorable mention lineman, and then Jake Lintner, honorable mention at quarterback. >> Um, if you guys all know, our one act play is going to state. they will perform on Friday. Um, so they did a community program for us here on Sunday. They performed for our middle school and high school students and did a really great job. So we wish them luck as they perform for state here on Friday. Um, tomorrow is the last day of the try. So on Friday, that means no students are in the building, but staff will be working on uh professional development that our own colleagues here in the building are putting on for each other. So we had 12 staff members volunteer to put on some great things that they know
087and feel comfortable sharing. So anything from Canva um to AI to working with Google to working with students with dyslexia to accommodations. So we have a wide array. Oh, I forgot Holocaust and ACT 30. Um so we have a lot of staff participating. Each session is about 45 minutes. Um and we have on average 30 staff at a time. So um the morning is going to be filled with a lot of collaboration and and learning from each other. So that's pretty exciting. Um [clears throat] Monday and Tuesday of next week we have a short week and then we have no school Wednesday through Friday due to the Thanksgiving break. So hope to see everybody at school. >> And then trimester 2 does start on uh the 24th. So, next Monday. >> All good. >> Thank
088you. >> Super report. >> I I would like to congratulate all our students that received some type of award uh academically most improved for this month. Uh good luck to our one act play uh on the state performance on Friday afternoon. uh talk real quickly about state report cards. So, uh Mrs. Kman'sburgger touched on it. Uh admin team is going to sit down with Wendy Nelson. Um she will go through it with us and um kind of take it apart and and get show us where since it changed where how that affected us and where our strengths are and where we need to work on, right? And then we'll have our goal is to have a a feedback to the board in our December meeting. So, okay. Uh [clears throat] had a hot water heater
089go down on us uh in the boiler room that serviced our middle school and high school. So, that was replaced last week. We've had some steam wet issues mainly with piping, not with steam traps. So, in about three or four or five rooms where we've developed leaks, I will pass this on afterwards. And you can see the wall here compared to the wall here. All righty. So, that'll be something that we will to take a look at. All righty. And then we're kind of working on uh our our generator, our main generator that is used for emergencies um for lighting is down by the boiler. You okay? >> Yeah. You >> No. Um went down on us as some uh change oil and it it wasn't a nice black or brown. It was a white
090white color. So changed the oil a little bit. Looks at uh some issue. So we are working on doing something with that. All righty. uh e- gaming/sports uh had a very good season. Um did very well uh and they ended up uh in the tournament and lost first round. So congratulations to them. >> They're going to talk at the the 10th. They're going to give a presentation at joint meeting. >> Yes. >> Yep. >> And then the winter season for esports starts right after Thanksgiving break. Okay. >> No offse for that. Bang bing bang. They got their rest. They'll get two weeks um on our um >> I don't I had something else. >> Mhm. >> You were at e game sports. >> No. Yeah, I was. I have a couple. So, uh I would
091say last week, Saturday, not this past week, two weeks ago, um got a text from a WSB rep and uh wanted to call me, talk to me a little bit about they have some a couple consolidation laws that uh they were introducing, wanted to pick my brain about it. So, we talked a little bit. Um lo and behold, Tuesday morning, uh Mr. Green and myself were heading down to the cap to talk in front of the education committee on um three bills that are dealing with consolidation that are being introduced introduced them in that that committee meeting. Uh we've had our our testimony um to talk about just basically everything we've we've talked about [clears throat] up to this point. Um, one is uh $2,000 for the first year. Right now it's 150 for 5
092years and then is it 75% or 50% and then 25% from there. So they were going to up it. They're looking at the bill calls for $2,000 per student for the first year. Then it would cliff down to 150 after that for the next four years. Um, another one was $25,000 for a any type of feasibility study that you're doing. Another one would match the mill rates. Uh, level them out. So, you weren't being um so they were you weren't one district wasn't being screwed on the other. Um, uh, that did not affect us a whole lot, but it was there. And then uh another one was about whole grade sharing $500 um per student for every year that you're doing that so or for the first five years. Um so it was a very
093good experience. Um I think uh it we answered a lot of questions. Uh I think it was well worthwhile going um because they hear they hear from Milwaukee and Madison schools and you're talking K8 districts. they don't they don't hear from diff districts way up north and um I think it was very good to understand what rural communities communities are all about and and how the what the times we are going through and we're doing everything to work together to to be as efficient but still offer opportunities for our our students. Um ju just a great experience. Um a lot of lot of lot of committee members came up afterwards and talked to us and was very positive. Okay, last thing I got uh the Wisconsin Association of School Board Boards Region Five Service Awards
094uh to board public uh to board members that have demonstrated a high level of commitment to Wisconsin public students by participating in the Wisconsin Association of School Boards professional development opportunities. So went to region five. Tom and I went to region five meeting. Um we have two board members I would like to congratulate that are made level one and level two. So I would like to congratulate Dave Clintman on level two. >> Could everybody in the audience please stand? [applause] >> Congratulations. picture. >> We will afterwards [laughter] and then level one Derek wire. So what it is is uh so they've been on the board but different level different things that activities and opportunities that they are doing on the board. So congratulations to you guys. That is all I have. Thank you. Set meeting
095dates building and grounds. Yep. I talked to Brad Simonson today. Um Brad Graphender is off next week. All right. So Brad Simon tonight and Brad Graphender talked about fourth or fifth 7 a.m. We talked about third but the third is going to be >> that morning. So >> fourth fourth at 7 a.m. Thursday. >> Are you going to be able to be there Mr. Lner? Don't you have a >> procedure? Or I'll zoom. >> Okay. >> December 4th, 7 a.m. >> Okay. >> Then December 10th, we got the joint meeting and then it should full board should be the 17th. Correct. Can I request a curriculum committee meeting, >> please? >> Before the December meeting. >> Um, yeah, probably. Just cuz I have to meet with Greenwood in January to go over the course book.
096>> Do you guys know who's on curriculum? I don't know right off the bat. >> Crystal, Mickey and I. >> Okay. All right. >> Do you want to meet before the joint meeting? So like on the 9th, is there anything that would come out of because you got you met with the >> Yeah, >> we met and that's kind of our timeline. They're gonna get their things together. They have to get them approved at their December board meeting. So we just have to get ours approved. >> All right. >> So we can update the course handbook and then share it together [cough and clears throat] and then when kids register in January, it'll be set. >> It doesn't matter. >> What day of the week of the ETH works for Nikki Crystal? We're talking during
097the day. Okay. Do you want the teachers there for us? >> No. >> It's just us and Miss will be there. Just >> I can do Tuesday. >> Tuesday the 9th. >> What time? >> Morning. >> I'm open. >> You guys want to go right after school? Does that right after school? >> Can I zoom in to that? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> The next >> Are you going to have anything for new? Yeah, we have already. >> Okay. All right. So, that would be that day. Then you got ahead of the game. All right. Good. >> So, December 9th, 3:30. >> Yeah, that should be good. Thank you. >> If I can be here in person, I'll for some reason, I'll zoom in. I'll let you know. [clears throat] >> Travis, do we need
098It calls for a technology meeting in December. >> No. >> Do we need anything? >> No. Okay. Will you let us know when you do need something? >> You don't want a whole page this time? >> Yeah, we're good now. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. >> Um just to I'm wondering if technology would if she would run that plan on the technology side of it, that library plan. >> I know the state split them apart super recently. >> Okay. So, I have to look, but >> All right. Well, I'll work on putting them back together. >> All right. We can talk about that. >> Okay. That's it. >> We're good on that. >> December 17th, you said for the regular meeting. >> Yeah. >> December 1st for >> Yes. >> December 1st for Grant.
099December. >> December 3rd. Uh, >> super. We're meeting with Joe and Jamie to go over the joint board agenda and then Myerin is coming in to show us what they're going to talk about on the 10th. >> So that's just Chris and I. >> That's just 7:30. >> Yeah. >> All right. Questions and clarification from nobody in the audience. >> Let me check my phone. Um, we are not. Should we go make the vote? >> Nope. All right. >> No need to. Anyone else? >> I would uh entertain a motion to adjurnn. I'll make that motion. >> Perfect. Motion, second by Nikki. All those in favor? All right.