Loyal Board of Education Meeting May 28th, 2025

001session and uh I have no changes to the agenda. The agenda is as presented. Go ahead, stand for the pledge of allegiance, please. 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 not have anybody sign up for public comment. So we will move into number four consent agenda items um approved minutes of the April 2025 district strategic plan planning meeting. Would we want to uh do you want to approve these all as group? Yep. Yeah. All right. So I'd look for a motion for 4.1 4.2 which is minutes of the April 30th regular monthly board meeting. 4.3 minutes of the joint board meeting. 4.4 the technology committee meeting and 45 building and

002grounds which took place on the 16th of May. Derek I correction the 4.2 minutes of April 30th. Um so it listed the committees and the new members. However, it didn't list the athletic committee. Should that be listed on there? Athletic committee and those members? Probably. Yeah. And I was on that committee. Does that change motion? With that change, ma'am made a motion to approve those minutes as presented. I'll second. Tom seconds. All those in favor? Opposed. Motion carries. 4.6 financial reports. Matt. Okay. Um general fund. Um, as of 430 2025, we have 1,183,24.50. The capital projects, the balance as of 430 was $111,18541 and the checking was $61,181.35. Any questions on the financial reports as presented? I move to approve the financial reports as presented. Nikki moves. Second. Crystal seconds. All those in favor? Opposed?

003Motion passes. New business. 5.1 Presentation of the district strategic plan. So, we have Mr. Schiller, Mrs. Iikert, and um they we also have a number of Nexus representatives here. Um I will let Mr. Schiller take from here, Mr. Kevin Hickman from Nexus right there. And then the others and I'll let Mr. Schiller introduce all them. You and I will share those or thanks for having us tonight, guys. Uh so you can view the PowerPoint that is in front of you in Board Docs if you want to see it there. There's also a copy of this strategic plan digitally if you want to look at it there. Uh we're going to go over the process that we got to this and then uh look at the actual plan that we came to and then kind of

004go from there and see if any questions from it. So our task force we have uh the three of us were on uh actually Mrs. Ziker and myself the EAT team which stands for the education action team. That was our group of staff members that met quite often to take the large group meetings and put the information together. So we ended up presenting and then also we wanted uh to have the student perspective. So we have Jonah who was part of the task force to present with us. Uh on your second slide or the first page you're looking at uh we have all of the staff task force members. The majority of those task force members were also eat team members. So they attended the large group uh meeting as well as many small group

005meetings where we took that information from the large group and try to hone in on central ideas. Uh we had several board members. Uh this started before the election. So we had two board members who were on here previously. Uh Dennis Rail and Holly Lner. And then we had new board members uh Crystal and Nikki. And then we also had Kirk for the entire time as well. So, we appreciate your guys' time and effort. And then our student members, we had several juniors and seniors that volunteered to be part of it. Uh the way that we had our task force meetings is we split up into seven different groups, seven different tables, and we wanted to make sure we had a nice collection of individuals at each table so that we could hear the overall

006community. So, a student was at each one of those tables uh that were able to give input and provide feedback and Jonah was one of those. Yeah, I guess I'll just talk about my experience with the strategic planning task force. Um, as Mr. Schiller said, and I'm sure you guys know by now, I'm Jonah Burks. I'm a junior and of course I participated in the strategic planning task force along with six other fellow students. Each group discussion within our task force had one student. Mr. Schiller explained it very well. And I think that it was very vital that the planning behind our five-year plan for the direction of where this school is going had student perspectives. Um without hearing that firsthand perspective from a student, a student who is most affected by school policies, how

007could we ever make the most effective plan? That's why Mr. each other more so recruited seven students versus us volunteering. I think our student group on the task force did a great job of adding our views. I know everybody participated um especially on where we think the school should go. I know our opinions and our input will be felt throughout the final project and as the plan becomes a crucial step of where our school is headed on a more personal level. The experience of strategic planning for me has benefited me greatly, specifically within student council and as the president of our FAA chapter. During the first meeting of our task force, we answered three questions, super simple but very effective. The first one was what does Loyal do well? The second one was where can

008Loyal improve upon and the third one is how can we get there? After that first meeting, I kind of did some self-reflection in regards to the clubs that I have leadership positions in. I spent a good chunk of time answering those three simple questions. Um, that process of acknowledging what's working, where you can improve, and what steps you can take to get there is powerful and was mo the most important lesson that I learned from being on this task force. So I guess just in total our student perspective on the strategic plan helped us create a plan that applies to students and a plan that will definitely be effective. This whole process helped us students, not just me, grow as thinkers and in how we can effectively work among teams. Thank you Mr. Schiller for

009recruiting me. Thank you to the school board for having this opportunity for us and thank you to Nexus Solutions for all that. Excellent. Thank you very much. And and then from there, I think it was vital we had students just like Joah had said. Uh looking back, I would actually suggest that if we do this again in four or five years, that we include more students. And the students we had uh were ones that have a lot of successes at school. So I think that if we could also have some students where school is maybe a challenge, it might provide an additional uh aspect to look at things. But I think that was a really really great opportunity to have you guys involved with it and it was fun listening to your conversations. Uh then

010from there, so our task force, uh the members are all listed. I'll let you see those, not uh read all those off. When we initially put this out in October to ask for community members if they would like involvement on the strategic plan, I believe we had about 40 45 people who had filled out the application uh to be part of it. All those people were included. And then we also reached out to a few others just because we wanted to make sure that all stakeholders were heard. So we had business owners, board members, staff members, uh students, we had parents of elementary students, parents of high school students. We really wanted to make sure that we had the complete picture of the community when we were looking at this. So I think our total

011task force ended up in the upper 50s when you include everyone, which is a really nice number uh to have. And then as far as the welcome and introductions uh to our team, we had of course Mr. Lner as our superintendent. Uh I worked closely with Mr. Lner on this uh working on my superintendent license. So I appreciate the opportunity to be part of that. We also then worked very closely with Claire Martin and David Thompson from Nexus. Uh they both I believe are retired superintendent and had an excellent uh perspective. And then Autumn Bachmann is uh really the person who does all of the graphics and does all of the technology uh each of the meetings. She was coordinating things and is always doing things behind the scenes. And then we have Kevin Hickman

012uh which which is our our contact there. Uh so we appreciate everyone at Nexus really gave us a great framework to work off of and a plan to to go from there. Okay. So then our you can kind of see our timeline on the bottom of where we started the meetings we had um kind of setting up that first meeting where we were all there in the evening the whole both the task force 18 all of us um and then there throughout the span until April we met on and off as the whole E team um kind of fine-tuning things and then we revisit with the whole um strategic planning team on a couple of those meetings. Um the main questions that we were kind of asked throughout the process and what we started with

013and kind of worked through was what great things are happening at Loyal? What are the biggest challenges facing Loyal? What educational program activity or facility changes are needed to ensure the future student achievement and district success at Loyal? And if Loyal could invest in only five key items, what would they be? And that was kind of towards the end there once we got to there. So the slide that has your that kind of looks like the tornado um kind of shows the process of how we funneled everything down. So we started the first night with at individual participants giving their thoughts on what were the great things happening, what are some big challenges um and some of those pieces. We got 500 responses, more than 500 responses from the whole 50some people that were there.

014And those then were broken down into 16 themes that they all kind of fit under. And then those 16 themes were taken into three to five strategic directions which ended up making our plan. Um the next page which would be slide nine is the six or the 15 themes that we came up with or 16 themes that we had and the numbers next to those themes. Each person that was on the strategic planning team had five votes on where their priorities lie and where they think the priority should lie for what are the most important things that we need to address and look for. Um staff development, recruitment and retention was the biggest one with 56 of those votes from those 50ome people going to that area. Um and you can kind of see how

015they played out from there. So then what we did as the E team is we took those top five And really I think we actually combined a couple of them and kind of lumped some of them together. So we took a little bit more than the top five um and looked at certain areas that we could impart to improve there. So um eventually those will show up on the QR code that's on your document. But those are the pieces that are found on your document here. Those are all like your action items, your goals, um and those pieces are all listed on the um final form there. Um and then just some of the feedback from the process um from the people that were part of it. They like the clear expectations, good conversation, taking

016into consideration all that was said, great communication. Everyone was heard and stayed on task. I think the system works and offers a good product which was very customizable. open communication and sharing of ideas and the open-mindedness of the facilitator, how their questions brought a detailed coordinated plan and tremendous participation. Um, so yeah, you can kind of see the document we have here. Eventually, this will be well this this part is linked right now if you follow this QR code. Eventually, we will also have like all of our action steps, how we plan to make sure those are met, um who's in charge of each of those, and how we will continue kind of making sure all these pieces are met and who's held accountable for that. One thing with uh this process uh my current

017introduction to business course I used a very similar process and we spent uh one or two days doing a strategic plan from only a students perspective. They ended up with four of the five same themes that we did as a community. So, I thought that was really nice to see how that tied together and that the students uh the one difference I think they had is they placed uh maybe was college and career ready a little bit higher than what we had as a team there. But it was very interesting how they were putting that together very similarly and it worked very nice uh when we did that. And then on that document, uh, the E team spent a ton of time, I mean, looking at this, making sure that everything really encapsulated what each

018community member, what the community members had said. Now, not everything that everyone said is going to be on there. So, on our last uh, task force meeting, we had heard uh, you know, feedback and we took as much as we could and that we thought was a dominant theme and included those. But there are some things that maybe were only one or two people. So those weren't necessarily put on there. Uh, and I think it really looks nice the way loyal is there because we wanted it to be very identifiable to us. And for myself, besides the wording, the images was incredibly difficult to find just the right pictures. We have an incredible social media presence, but even looking through there, like it's just the right photo. So, we do have rights to this afterwards

019and we'll be able to update photos. For instance, uh the accountability on the back page, that one has our old board. So, what we're hoping to do is to get you guys one night at a board meeting and get a picture to be able to put on there for that as well, so we can make sure we're always keeping it up to date. I think it looks great. I really like the design. as somebody that was um at the task force um you know working through the pro process of it and then to see the final result I think it was really good. My question is what's your update process and how often because when you print this you can't change the QR code so you just plan on doing this annually for the printed

020ones what's the schedule right so that's where we met as an e team two weeks ago uh we went through our working document and really assigned who is responsible for these different parts so that it isn't something that just gets set aside. So those are things that have to be updated. We have five strategic directions on here. My suggestion would be that at every board meeting, one of those should be identified and that could be one of your agenda items that at every board meeting. That way, you're hitting all of them twice a year and they tie in nicely. You can just set a schedule. That way, everyone is being held accountable to make sure that those are are being done. Uh the QR code, it it is set. That one won't change. It goes

021to our website. We will be adding additional documents there such as survey data uh and other things that would tie into it and we do have members of the E team that are going to remain on a E team that will continue throughout the years to come. Um, so that code will be updated how often? So the QR code, the QR code should be able to just say the QR code shouldn't have to be updated. That QR code should be the one that that we'll use, but we can update the information it goes to. The QR code is just going to take you back to the loyal website and it'll update the actual plan on the website on the website. So it's updated from the website. Okay. Right. Thank you, D. So, one thing I

022would would suggest is before we print a thousand of these or how many ever, let's get a picture with you guys as the school board on there so we can have that updated. You I realize that might change in the next whenever the next school board election is, but we can have that updated and then if we do have any other photos we want to update, let's get those and then we can print that and get that out. So, an annual update. I think that would be terrific. Yes. and June, right? Your board will be together at that point. Yep. Scott or maybe even Chris, what is our relationship with Nexus moving forward? Was this a is are we nearing the end of this contract? We are after this um this portion of it is

023is done. We were looking for a strategic plan. Um they did a great job. I can't thank enough Claire and Dave and Autumn. um for all the help and all the assistance you guys have done. Claire was here the three sessions for um um in person for the task force. Uh Dave and Autumn were there um Zoomed or virtually virtually. There you go. Um, so at this point this would end it and we would accept it and then we would accept it, approve it tonight and then move forward on making sure that we implement it and and update and go and yep and go with it. So all righty I would say the framework they provided was really beneficial just uh like they're simple questions but the process in which they were done that when

024they asked the question it was very clear for 2 minutes no talking you sit there write down your thoughts and then there was a time to share amongst the group there was a recorder that was recording what was said and then it was all shared out as well so we had people inhouse recording and then also Dave was recording on his end too so so we could go back afterwards and make sure that everything was there. So that process was really nice. The other thing is during our task force meetings, uh Claire had led all of those. So it was nice to have someone who was impartial and not part of the district. Uh because our first meeting was actually our first two meetings were before April's vote. Uh so you know there was a

025lot of talk about that with consolidation. So she was able to have someone separate, someone removed. And then during the conversations uh Mr. Lner was always removed so that he would come in and hear the feedback but everyone could speak their mind uh during that time when it was the brainstorming portion. So that that framework I thought was really invaluable. Yeah, I thought it was great framework that Nexus put together and how it was handled. They did a great job. Yeah. And just working with them uh Mr. Litter and I had met with them uh before every task force meeting, before several ET team meetings just to make sure that everything was communicated. We were all on the same page. Uh and then anytime that I've emailed Autumn to update anything, she has it back

026uh immediately. So, it's been a great working relationship. You guys have any questions? Just a question on and thank you for the presentation and for your all your work and and the committee's work on this. Um in regards to I think I understood you saying that there are more specific items that are part of each of the action steps. So how soon would those items be formulated? I mean is that kind of all in this conclusion of of the strategic plan and then forwarded on to you know for us as a board to know these are these are the action items under everyone and yeah so we had a draft copy before the last task force meeting in April and from that one we went back and had changes based on the community and and

027task force recommendations. So we really want to make sure that that the board everyone is on board with it and then from there you know now we can say okay these are definitely the ones we can move forward and start making those steps and that's where we'll be adding to the website to see if people want to see additional information and especially just to make sure that everything is is available that we've talked about uh because it was very interesting hearing the community's perspective when you get everyone together like that. So, uh, we have that a working document right now. Uh, it's one like the EAT team. We know what we're talking about, but before we would get that out, we'd like to be a lot more polished. So, yes, we would be getting on

028that. And that's where Mrs. Aikert uh had sent out, you know, who wants to remain on this team and then those people will get together and we'll really kind of hone in more and get those directions going. And each of those action steps and our goals all have measures. So there's a way to measure the success or you know how we're meeting those those pieces. So that's another part that'll show up on through the QR code on the website. And then one other suggestion and it's only because of when we started the process we only had three board members on because we didn't want to have a quorum or it to appear that the board was driving the strategic plan. So, my only suggestion would, and I have no problems leaving Crystal and Nikki on

029there, but just please asterly elected in the spring and you know, we're we're a community board member or something to the effect so that we don't look like we the board was driving this, right? Just just uh so that Right. because the first two meetings we weren't, right? Right. So that I just thought that might be for future reference that we know that we don't want to have a quorum on that. Absolutely. Any other questions hearing? None. I entertain a motion to approve the district strategic plan as presented. I will make a motion. Crystal made the motion. Second. Second by Tom. All those in favor? I oppose. Motion carries. Thank you so much. Thank you guys very much. Thank you. I would like to thank our task force team. I would like to thank our

030action team, educate team, and I would like to give uh Mr. Schiller a special thank you. Um he's really taken this under his arms and uh wing and and has done a great job. So thank you. So thank you very much. Thank you. No, thank you guys very much for joining us. We appreciate I'll move right along to 5.2, the approval of the special special education director. Okay. Uh I'm going to recommend that the board approves Jaden Feer, Jaden Driggs. uh as the district's special education director. Um we had two interviews, both very good. Um uh and we have things set up for her um throughout the year to as mentors and things like that that will really help her along. So that is my recommendation. Any questions regarding the position recommendation? Hearing none, I

031entertain a motion to approve. Call a motion to approve. Jur is the special education. Crystal makes the motion. Second. Second. Matt seconds. All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. 5.3 Accept resignation. Dear Loyal School District Administration, I'm writing and school board. I am writing to formally resign from my position effective at the conclusion of the current school year as I have accepted a position at West Salem High School for the upcoming school year. This decision did not come easily as I have greatly valued my time at Loyal. The opportunities I've had to serve the school and community, one that has supported not only me but also my parents and grandparents, have been truly meaningful. From teaching in the ELA classroom and serving on the guiding coalition to working with the music

032department and directing plays, I cannot begin to express how thankful I am for the experience experiences and relationships I've built here. I will forever hold my time at Loyal and the bonds I've made with students and staff as some of the most meaningful of my life. I'm committed to making this transition as smooth as possible. I will ensure that all responsibilities and documentation are completed before my departure. If there are ways I can assist in preparing for the next school year, I would be happy to help. Thank you for the support, collaboration, and opportunities for growth that I have experienced at Loyal. Sincerely, Eric Adams. I want to thank Eric for everything that he did for the school district while he was here, including the wanting play. Yeah, absolutely. So, I would like to also

033thank him. He was uh has been a huge part of our staff. um guiding coalition has made some great ideas. Um and then not only the play, but he's always there to help out jazz band or or wherever uh pep band. Um so good luck to him and thank him and thank you very much, Eric. Um with that, I'll take a a motion to accept the representation. I'll make a motion to accept. Nikki take makes the motion. Tommy second. Second. Motion in a second. All those in favor? I resignations accepted. You want to speak real quick? Position is on weekend and we do have potential applicants. Yes. So position English high school English is on weekend. Um I think Friday it was out. We have, I believe, four applicants as of right now. So, we

034will be getting a hold of them and talking to them, see if we can set set something up. It was also sent out internally, too. Yes, we did not have anybody interested. Item number 5.4, discussion with possible action of fall and winter coaches. Okay. Um, we want Ad Stag Bower to take this one. Sure. All right. So, we are looking at um presenting our fall and winter sports head coaches. Uh, so for boys and girls cross country, that would be Hannah Olsen. Uh, for football, we would have co-head coaches Chris Lintner and Dean Litner. And then for volleyball, we would have Jaden Driggs. Uh for winter coaches, uh boys basketball, we would be looking at Brandon Desmet. For girls basketball, we are looking at Mike Rereath. And then I don't know that we do the

035wrestling. No, no, it's already for the call. That's what we are proposing here tonight. Do you want to go into just a little bit on the WIAA contact days and why we're hiring all these positions now for the summer? Yep. So, uh, a couple weeks ago, WIA approved um, pretty much no restrictions as far as coaching contact uh, in the summer. So, previously there was very limited contact where coaches, you know, only had so many days, contact days uh, and now that pretty much opened up. So that is why we are approving these um at the end of the school year because these coaches will be working with our student athletes, you know, a little more now than they have previously. We agreed to wait for baseball and softball just because and track. So just

036to add on that uh the reason why the WIA went with um so I I believe every other sport except for football has wide open during the summer. Football has uh a no contact during the 4th of July week or is that every sport? Do you know that football doesn't have that one? I don't know what the other was. And at the very last week in in July, those are off times that you cannot have any contact. um they want the coaches to help these players out. Not that they're going to go out and have practices all the time, every day, but if someone wants to work with someone uh shooting, pitching, throwing, punting, whatever, they don't have to use a contact day in order to work with those few kids. Um so that is

037a big reason. And then also that the coaches that are coaching these sports are working with the kids, not a not a person that a a parent or someone else that may not know have the experience or the knowledge. So that that was kind of one of the big pushes or a couple big pushes that the that the WIA moved with on uh approving this contact throughout the summer. discussion, questions. Did the athletic committee uh review and do evaluations on these coaches and the programs? So, at the end of each season, uh we I did evaluate all of our coaches and we had them in front of the athletic committee meeting uh and we talked about the season and the run through at those meetings. We have not done that yet for spring because that

038is still happening, but we'd have for our fall and winter sports. And you do the evaluations? I do. Yes. questions, comments. I guess I'll bring it up. See, Dean Linder's on here. I guess I'm still a no on him just because maybe he's a great guy, great coach. He was never even interviewed for the position that he was given last year. Maybe he's a good guy. The process was not correct. So I hear where you're coming from and I feel the same way and I can guarantee that the process is going to be correct from here on out consolidation everything else cuz crap like this goes on and it's just oh let's just hire my buddy and ain't right. I guess the only concern that I have and this it's I guess not just my

039concern but a concern that's kind of been heard throughout throughout is I understand that you're the athletic director and your role is to do these evaluations. Um, but what is a concern is that some of the people that you're evaluating are your boss, your boss and your co-workers. And I don't know how to fix that or what other ideas there are because again it is your role. Um, and and the hardest part I think for people is that again is that their conflict of interest is one of them. is your boss in that in a different role and then other ones are co-workers or and I mean co-workers and or maybe they answer to you in a different role as assistant principal. I don't know how to fix that moving forward, but it's certainly a

040concern that I've heard a lot of. Could we put the committee more on the evaluation? That's his job. Yeah. Yeah, you talk about you talk about the board not having their fingers in everyday duties. That was the thing. You took this job saying you were not going to coach anyone. It's been a problem for 5 years, six years. And then we hired him because approve you as a coach. We send you co- coaches and now we got a mess. Yeah, I agree. We don't want to get in, but because administration's involved, I think we should make an exception in this for for for for this sport, not for all the sports. I mean, I guess my push back would be there would be conflict of interest from people on the athletic committee as well, you

041know, like in a small town like that's tough and yeah, I I don't know. I I hear your concern and I understand it 100%. But I feel like the conversations that we have, it doesn't matter. Like we're out there for what's best for kids and sometimes we have tough conversations and I mean that's just kind of how it goes. I agree. I mean, I'm on the athletic committee and it would be extremely difficult, you know, or conflict of interest as well in certain areas, too. But I I I guess I don't know I don't know how to go around it. And I get what you're saying. Your role is to put this the athletes first and and we, you know, want to trust that that's what's happening, but I think there's concerns out there that

042that might not be happening, I guess. I'm sure not we're not the only school that is faced with having teachers or co or or administrators um as coaches. We certainly encourage people who are working with students on an everyday basis. So my recommendation if we if we have concerns to address them to m to Mr. Bower and and whether he needs to reach out to WIA or to WB as to other procedures if if you know changes but I don't think um I don't think it's it's the role of the board necessarily to uh to to evaluate coaches if if it's if the athletic committee is is doing that and and having a process of procedures to do that. Well, as a board, should we be approving these individually going sport by sport? Sure. vote.

043Start with volleyball. Motion to approve. Jaden. And I apologize. What's Jaden's new last name? Driggs. Driggs. Motion to approve. Jaden Driggs as the head volleyball coach. I'll make that motion. Tom Oine with a with the motion. Crystal with the second. All those in favor? I a football Chris Lner and Dean Lner. I'll make the motion. Tom makes the motion. Second. Second. I'll second. There's a second. All those in favor? I. That's Tom. All those opposed? Nay. Davey is a nay. Matt is a nay. Nikki is a nay. Kirk nay. Nay. Tom was a yes. Nay. Motion fails. Cross country. Hannah Olsen. I'll make a motion. Motion's been made for Hannah Olsson. I need a second second. Second by Tom Oine. All those in favor? I. Motion carries. Girls basketball. Mike Gre. I'll make a motion.

044Crystal makes the motion. Second. Dave seconds. All those in favor? I. Motion carries. Boys basketball. Brandon Smith. make the motion. Nikki makes the motion, second by Matt. All those in favor? Motion carries. Uh, moving along to 5.5. Approve board resolution adopting the updated Neola policies following the first and second readings. Was there any updates? Tom, you know, was there any updates or Chris? Was there any updates? Just second reading, right? Yeah. between the readings. There was updates between the readings. Okay, I'll make that motion. Here's the resolution that we are to follow and then every board member needs to sign it. You like me to read it, please? All right. for the board of education. The Loyal School District adoption resolution resolved that by the bylaws and policies published on the district website www.loyal.k12.wi. US

045and confided in the comprehensive document entitled bylaws and policy of the loyal board of education are hereby adopted that all bylaws and policies here to for adopted by the loyal board of education are hereby rescended. Further be it resolved that in the event any policy part of a policy or section of the bylaws is judged to be inconsistent with law in an operative by a court of content jurisdiction or is invalidated by a policy or contract duly adopted by this board. The remaining bylaws, policies and parts of policies shall remain in full effect. Take notice that the foregoing resolution was adopted by the Loyal Board of Education at a public meeting held at Loyal, Wisconsin on May 28th, 2025. Just pass this around to it afterwards either way. All right, let's just You got to

046make a motion, right? Accept it. Yep. I I would entertain a motion to accept that resolution. I'll make that motion. Kirk makes that motion. Second. Second by Dave. All those in favor? I motion carries. 5.6 discussion with possible action of the WIAA membership for 2526. So, real quickly, Mr. Stigmower can just give us the lowown of athletics. Uh, so WA will come out in early July, correct, with the form. We're just getting a jump on it. um to have it approved tonight of what we're going to offer for athletics in the 2526 school year. Uh so with that, in fall we will have boys and girls cross country which is a co-op, uh football which is a co-op, volleyball. In winter we will sponsor boys basketball, girls basketball, boys and girls wrestling which is a

047co-op. In spring we will sponsor boys baseball, boys golf. This also includes girls that are able to participate, but there is not a WIA tournament in spring as that happens in fall for girls. Uh we will sponsor girls softball as a co-op and then boys and girls track and field. How many people do we got for golf right now or is there is this just leaving us the option open? The option is open. I will say that there was 12 to 15 that signed up. Um, I don't think it's going to be that high. I do think there's going to be a handful. Um, but that is something that as soon as the school year is over, we are going to dive into those details uh included in the next athletic committee meeting as a

048discussion uh and move forward from there. Weren't we previously co-auth? We were. So, just Yeah. So, just a little feedback on that. Um, we had a couple students reach out that they were very interested like within a week of having to submit and declare that we were looking for a sport um or that we were looking to add golf back as a sport. I reached out to Neilville. They were like, "Hey, we're super interested, but the timeline here isn't going to fit." Uh, so not for the upcoming year, but possibly again co-oping in the future when we have a little more time uh to make, you know, that happen. So, we did at one point have our own golf team before that. Uh, then we did co-op with them with Nsville. Uh, I also mentioned

049that put it out to Greenwood, see if they have anyone interested. Um, I think they have one eighth grader and that'll be a freshman next year. So, they could still play as a JB player. They score the top five out of how many? You have seven or eight. So, yeah. And once we get I mean, we'll we'll eventually put together an application process for a coach for that. Just with the craziness and the busyiness of the end of the year, we're kind of putting it off to early to mid June. And we did have one day to get it into the WIA. Literally one day. It's uh just in in knowledge, let's never let that happen again. Um we we um just looking back when we were looking at uh changing some things with other

050sports and we gave it was a month out and we got feedback that it was too rushed. I think, you know, under the circumstances, I understand why people wanted to do it, but I heard some people commenting back that it's that was uh we made it in one day and we need to have more more feedback or time to discuss it. Totally agree. And just for full transparency, I mean, this was 100% studentled. Um, and I guess even from my point of view, like I didn't know that there was a date to declare, you know, a certain sport if you were going to start one up. Um, so after doing the review and looking into that and realizing that the timeline was so short, but we will make sure that we get any other questions

051on WIAA membership. Looking for a motion to approve. I'll make a motion. Clerk makes the motion. Second by Matt. All those in favor? I. Motion carries. Item 5.7, discussion with possible action of the health insurance proposal for 2526. So, we talked a little bit uh last month in in closed um really looking for action on one item um for sure tonight. Um, so we talked about we did get our um what every staff member takes for their insurance if it's going to be premium um plan which would be they can go basically anywhere uh oak leaf and aspirus uh marshall clinic or simply one which is only Marshall Clinic. All righty. Um you can see about $8,500 in monthly savings. Uh for 12 months uh looking at aboutund just under $102,000 of savings. We talked

052about raising our in lie of to $5,000 at $2,500. Um, I will let you know that Greenwood last month did raise theirs to $5,000. Okay. Um, and you can see what that amount reaches. 33,000 we'll we'll total it out. We have a couple that are going off a single plan, but we'll get in lie of. So, um, that is one thing that would leave you leave us with just under $70,000 in savings. And we can talk more about the rest of the staff or giving them anything or putting it in fun 46. So, so in the consort govern what's the action on this? I don't I mean moving to move the move that insurance to 5,000 5,000 and 2500. I'll make that motion. Did you want to ask your question first? Sorry. Um back to

053the simply one and that 10% in the consortium. Y is that look like we're going to hit that? Yep. Okay. I I think it was a Yeah. So we have we definitely will I believe everyone else will because the whole consortium has to hit that right. Yeah. And they went from it was 25% they were asking initially and then they brought it down to 10%. So we will hit that then there'll be savings for next year. Yes. So this is 2526. Yes. I make a motion to do insurance from 2,00 and from 4,000 to 5,000. We'll second. Motion's been made and second. All those in favor I abstain. Yep. And Tom. And that's all we need to do with that item. We approved. Yeah. And we approved the switch to security health plan last month.

054So we're done. Okay. Item 5.8 approval of the 6603 agreement for the occupational therapist with Owen and Granton. Okay. Uh, this is a position that we've been sharing with Owen and Grant for a number of years. I would say I don't know, six, seven. We did take over being fiscal manager this past year. Um, did you put that on? Yeah, it's on. Okay. All right. So, you can see it on the board docs. What it what they're so you get 20% from Grant and 20% from from Owen. So they're one day one day and then we're two days. Okay. Uh haven't had zero issues with it. It has been has been good. It work two days at each one. She works four days, right? So we should 25 and 50, right? 20 20 and 50.

055So she works four out of five days. So she'll work 20 and we get 40. So it's all 20 20 40% and then the 20 is a day off. She doesn't work on a Friday. So she just paid for a day off. No. No. Well, it still should be 50% 25%. Yeah. Yes. I'll make that motion. Matt's made the motion to approve the 6603 agreement for the occupational therapist with Owen Whitney and Grant. Second. Second by Nikki. All those in favor? Motion carries. Agenda item. 5.9 discussion of the possible action of a 6603 agreement for the technology coordinator with Greenwood and Granton. So we have Travis Henderson, our IT guy. Um this this year we are sharing him um one day with Granton. Uh he does two half days down there. Um is willing and

056looking um to do all three districts. The nice thing about it is Sam Katnau is who with us is with Grant also. So the two work very well together and have these two kind of in the same boat and are wanting to work with Greenwood and and so we are working together and we can be in the same situation technology-wise. So I'm going to recommend that we approve a shared agreement with Greenwood and Granton. So what it would be is they're one day um Grant one day we get two days Greenwood two days. Yep. Yep. And then he would we talked a little bit about half day, huh? Isn't it something with like half day? So he would be at Greenwood maybe a half a day then go to one of the other district Granton

057and then the next day he would be at one of those two schools in our school, but he's at on site basically the majority of the time and then whatever site as needed if something goes down or breaks and you're all good with that. And he would he get a a vehicle from the school district to drive back and forth? No. No. Okay, that would be on. So, we would talk we would embellish a a travel in his salary. All right. So, it would be like a mileage log that he has to keep. Not paid per mile. It's just going to be All right. You take care of the X more dollars a year. Yeah. Okay. Just a Okay. So, as long as as it is addressed. Yep. We've talked about it. Yeah. He's okay

058with that. Motion to approve. Second. I'll make I'll make or I'll second. Kirk makes the motion. Dave has a second. All those in favor? I motion passes. Uh 5.10 discussion and possible action of staff instructional devices. Okay. Our our devices for our staff are precoid 2018 2019. Yeah. I think they were purchased right when CO hit or right before when CO Yeah. So 6 years old seven um looking to update them. Uh you have um you have uh couple quotes on board docs. One is touchscreen and the other one is nontouchsreen. Currently right now staff have touch and love touch. Um it does cost more so that's why they're both there. I'll just remind you staff love it. Um it was what 56 on that recruit retain on our strategic plan. Keeping our staff was

059number one thing. So I think just the way technology is going touchscreen is the future. It only looks to be about $65 more. Yeah, it wasn't a whole lot more for the touch with this quote. Not a lot more. Talking Yeah. about just under 4,000 or 55. You guys have talked internally what you feel you want. What's your preferences? Yep. What's your preference? Touch. This is coming from Travis's budget. This will be a combination of budget and some common school funds possibly. What about an uh CISA grant potentially? So that so the CESA grant you won't know until October or November time frame if that's approved. Um if that is approved, there's only about 20 grand I think in there anyway. So some of it could we could wait. The pricing would probably go up

060if we dropped devices though. Well, I mean, even if we approve tonight, we if and get the grant, we can just put it towards the point. We can we can check on it. Uh some of that has to be maybe purchased by CISA itself and for that reimbursement to happen cuz we're not the receivers of the grant. CISA is Oh, I see. So, we can check that, but it makes it a lot more messy for this scenario. And there's no other money allocated any that you'd be taken from to do this. I mean you comfortable. I think we are sitting good come from this year's budget. Uh I think it would have to come from next year. This will be into next year's if you Matt's made a motion to approve the touch screen. Yes.

061Sorry. I'm sorry. Of the staff instructional devices. Second. Second. Curt's got a second. All those in favor? Motion carries. On the plus side, that means you guys will get different ones too, the older ones. But yeah, these told me I don't know if I should make any dollar amount in that motion. Well, I guess I know we already approved it, but if you're okay with that's what I was approving was Yes. Item 5.11, discussion with possible action of a linewise filtering contract renewal. So that is our yearly filtering. Um we had the option of one, two, or three years on it. Um 3 years you did save a little bit of money. Um I did find out today Greenwood also is running up on their filtering. We have completely different ones right now. Um, I

062am suggesting we do a one-year renewal on this one as well as what I'm doing at Greenwood. So that way come next summer, I can kind of get something that'll work for both districts at the same time to align them for later. So that made my life easier. Yep. So in my update, I did say that we were looking at doing a three-year deal that did save us uh 12 to $1,500. 1,200,200 just under. Um, so he Sam and Travis met with Joe today and I would I would agree let's do a one year and then we can figure out together so we're in the same boat. Well then in reality if 28 is the year you would line you would line something up for 28. Well, right but you could you could line it

063up after next year in 27. Right. and get lined up for that. Y yeah, I I agree with the one year because of everything that's going on and the less programs, the little dollars of saving versus his time, we'll save more money in the time. I would look for a a motion to approve the one-year filtering contract. I'll make a motion for one-year filtering contract. Second. Motion and a second. All those in favor? I motion carries. Item 5.12, discussion with possible action, new computer servers, go ahead. Okay. Um, please. Thank you. We have two servers right now of the district. Um, one of them was purchased in 2016, one was purchased in 2020. Um, there's no warranty, no support on either one of them currently. Um, and I would like to replace both of them.

064Um, if we do them in batch, we can get a bigger discount with Dell. Um, so this is pre-isount. So the higher dollar amount. If it gets approved, I'd go back and say, "Hey, we're looking at buying all these computers on this. We could even get a further discount. Um, this runs our printing software, doors, H, uh, camera system, um, files connect to the internet here using the servers. um without warranty support. We had our new camera server go out during this last storm um with a power surge and we had next business day on that and that came back. We had them here the next business day on Monday. Um and that was fixed no charge to us. So that would happen to one of the other two servers. School might not have been

065in session the next day. So with the new servers, do you get a warranty with them or do you have to purchase a warranty? So those were already included in the price and I would put 7-year warranties on everything. So that's 7 years from when I repurchase it. I would get next business day warranty support on those things. Is that a typical life expectancy of a server? About seven years. Five to seven years. I like to go seven now just to kind of push that out. It's cheap to do it up front. Any questions regarding the proposal for new computer servers? I guess I'm just a little confused on all the different bids we have. So what is the total amount that we're actually approving or you know what do we need for the So

066the one with 2020 and that's with the install I believe right. Yeah. So I think what you guys have is two server bids plus the two separate installs. Yeah. Yeah. Just in case you wanted to go with one or you know only one this year or something like that. Um those installs are not just physically installing them. We're upgrading the entire network at that time to from I think 2016 servers to 2025. So we're doing a big migration there as well. And just a question to I know recently one of my IT guys we were with our servers ended up looking at getting an extension because there there's no offer for an extension on the current ones or you said these are just gone they're done. These were built by um a company that's no

067longer these are custom built not by like Dell or HP. They're from someone else and they're no longer in business. So nobody knows. So it looks like total 264. That sound about right together. And Sam had it said if you go back to Dell telling them you're going to do all this. So even if you put putting whatever the dollar amount is and hopefully we can get a couple grand cheapers was my thought. That makes sense. Especially with the laptop price with the laptops probably as well. And just a question. So is this something that like they would come in and update over the summer or so it would be ready to go for next? Uh it depend on when it gets ordered. Yes. Okay. If it gets ordered now if it gets well it

068gets ordered July one. Um and these could be split between fiscal years if we needed to but we're getting really close for that to be delivered in. So I would take that time frame. I'll make a motion to get order. Dave makes the motion to approve the community servers. Second. Second by Kirk. All those in favor? I. Motion carries. 5.13. Discussion with possible action. support staff salary increase for the 25 26 school year. Uh just recommend that we raise the the floor of what we pay our support staff. Uh what I mean by that is our lowest is in the $12 range yet. Um looking at anywhere um 14 1450 15. I would ask you what's your recommendation? Greenwood is at 1550. Uh my recommendation would be anywhere from 1450 to 15. So when you

069say raise the floor, if we're taking the the lowest paid person to 1550, is everybody else going up exponentially? We we run into this at the county all the time. Anytime you raise the floor, you get compression if you don't bring everybody up. So, what are we uh what's the thoughts there? Cuz I might agree that yeah, $12 is not enough anymore, but now where do we stop at? Correct. Figure out like those that get benefits cuz that's an extra perk, too. I'm all in favor of raising a minimum thing. Maybe we should do a little more homework on this before we do it. Just wait till our meeting or not. Just like Gary said, do your do your uh figure out. Exactly. But I'm definitely in favor of moving it up. I agree. Do

070more research and bring it up to the next board meeting table. Got it. Motion to table. I'll second motion table. Dave with Dave made a motion to table. Not second. All those in favor of tableabling. 5.14 discussion with possible action of purchase of vehicle. So Mr. Kabista did some leg work and you can probably take over here in just a short bit. um went down to K&H um and talked to them, talked to John Shechman down there about possibly working with us on a on a vehicle. I did just email you at the beginning of the meeting pictures of it. So, um you did the leg work, so why don't you just talk a little bit about it? I just know you were talking kind of started with the Gulf thing and looking more vehicles

071wherever and we have the money to do it. So basically I I do a lot of inspections, you know, for the state or the loyal police inspectors for the state of Wisconsin. So when you said the type of vehicle you were looking for, I knew possibly one. So I went down to go look at it and asked him if he would donate, you know, or what he would be willing to work with us to turn around and for a vehicle. So it is it's been in an accident. Front end is damaged. Um he said he would he would fix it and then uh we would we could put it on a hoist when it's done and take a look at it, inspect it um and go from there. U he won't have a problem with

072that once it's fixed us taking it up, taking a look at it, checking it all, make sure it's all safe. So looking at a 17 Suburban for $15,000 once it's all done. He's basically I have access working on it right now. A couple pictures you can see. Basically, the only thing I'll say is that he's not making any money. He's actually eating money on. He is basically selling it to for the purchase price and then the work and stuff that he's parts that he's putting on, he's eating all of that. So maybe two things, Chris. Can you explain how we kind of got to the the need for a new vehicle or another vehicle? Uh we in shuttling kids back and forth. Um we have we we're out of vehicles. Um so we are we

073are we try not to haul any students in a personal vehicle. We want them to use a school vehicle. We want people, teachers, staff that are going to a a meeting to use a staff or a a district vehicle. Um mileage is 73 cents a mile. Um and that adds up quickly. So um we were looking at something many area schools have bought a um a nine passenger suburban. Nine is the max you can have for students plus a driver. um just to haul people around for and we're really looking at it not only for classes but uh moving kids back and forth. We do I don't know you have a lot of co-ops, you have a lot of different things that way. Um and I I really feel we are in need of another

074vehicle that could help us with that. So I was working with him sorry for Go ahead. Go ahead. I was working with him on several vehicles of doing basically I reached out to him just saying hey you're an alumnist from Loyal what are you willing are you willing to bring something to the board and he was fully willing to do it so I went down and talked to him looked at it uh was very very good to to talk to and work with so um just so people know what do we currently have for vehicles so we have a school truck we have a car that is designated as our driver's ed car Um, we have a minivan, two minivans, but the second minivan is a handicap minivan. So, um, no, Mrs. Aker, this would

075be something that she would use or could use to take kids out when they are in their transition class. Used also to pick up kids in the morning that do not take the bus, too. So, yep. So, isn't one of the bands shared with FFA? It is FFA. There's absolutely a need. You're always short vehicles. Yeah. And if you if you want to keep them in our district vehicles, I think this is a a good way in so many trips that we don't need a bus anymore. You know, none of our groups are really up anymore. So, we do use the vans or a lot of Yes. Right now, my a bay van transports kids in the middle of the day for the construction class. So, I can't use that van for any trips because

076it has to be back between 150 or 120 and 250. The you know the driver's ed cab can't be used in the mornings because they're using for driver's ed. So, I mean it's really things are tied up. We could really use another set of wheels. Sure. Costwise, it'll save us on mileage for the teachers too. So, that'll help cover the cost. And you were going to take this out of which fund you had a plan for that? We have we'll budget for it and then for some of it and then we have um since special ed is using it they in talking with CISA they would we'd be able to use some of that money to help pay for it also. So some of that flow through money I talked about before that if we

077don't use it we will lose it. So, and he gave us the option if if we don't like it or we feel something's wrong with it, we either take it back or he'll work with us or or whatever. So, I think it's a really nice gesture on his Yeah, I'll make a motion to approve the purchase of the vehicle from K&H. Crystal makes the motion to purchase the vehicle from K&H. Second. Second by Kirk. All those in favor? Motion carries. 5.15 discussion. School district consolidation with Greenwood. So you saw the minutes on the joint board meeting from May 5th. Um couple things that came out of that was to get Bob Buckler in for our next one joint meeting. Um, and to focus on the 2829 school year, uh, Joe and I met with Bob

078Butler and from WSB and Elise Burn from Baird today. Um, kind of laid out Bob will have a presentation uh, looking at they both can make June, Monday, June 2nd work. I know that's a conflict for someone else. Tuesday, June. All right, let's let's do let's look at it. Is that right? The second's a Monday. Yeah, Monday. I was wondering the context of it was just the words. Is that Monday or No, the second was an award track. What time is that? 6:00. Can you be there for I told I told you. Okay. So, it's Monday the second. I'm sorry. I put that on there. Monday, June 2nd, 7 o'clock in Greenwood in Greenwood and will be televised live streamed. Okay. So he will have a presentation um kind of going over the process uh

079dos and don'ts dos and don'ts and and just kind of legal legal um I'm not going to say target but for so he'll be able to explain more of the separate boards joint board consolidated board yes so Mr. Green and I met with him just he a stream met and yes he had it all laid out. Um he'll he'll answer your question. So so on the agenda we're going to have an open forum for him. We can so the public can ask the board is going to ask anybody can ask for sure ask we can do that. That's my suggestion. It's kind of open for him and have the public ask him questions if they want to ask him directly. Now, is Elise from Bair bringing anything we haven't already seen? She will be there

080for questions. Um, is there anything you want her to bring, two building, anything like that? We have all those scenarios already, right? You have you we have a three building. We do have together a two building that we were looking at when we did the first financial study. I don't know if we gave that out to you guys at all or not, but we can definitely have we can get Okay. Did you And I'm just curious. We talked a little bit at the last joint meeting. I don't know. And I guess I talked quite a bit of the feasibility study, facility study. Have you and Joel or I guess what are your thoughts on a facility study? And do you think that is necessary or or open forum? I guess I would like to know

081what everybody's thoughts on that are. I I would think if you're going to do a facility study then have it with obviously do every building. I know we talk about that their elementary um we talk about what ours looks like. We did have a facility study 2016 2017 just with Mr. Leaky when Mr. Ley was here before Myron came in through before the capital before the capital referendum probably. Yeah. So, we did have something go through um just taking a look at the whole thing. Uh what could we do better? So I I think that would be something that we definitely need to at least look at maybe discuss on June 2nd and over there. What does everyone else think? Crystal go this way. It's going to have to happen sooner or later. You might

082as well I mean I'm just making five years down the road or four years down the road. I guess the sooner you get your ducks in a row probably the better, but I don't know. Or do you want to pass something else before you do that, but it's going to have to happen sooner or later. But my thought is, you know, everybody pretty much agreed at the last joint meeting that in 2829 we're going to go together. So my suggestion is I want to know more what Bob is going to say, put the new board together and then do the facility set up. Yes, it needs to be done, but not until we are consolidated as one as one thought. Otherwise, you got people on personal agendas for each school. I guess I would like

083some more clarification about the new board because I want to know at what point is the new board created and is the new there was one scenario that we talked about where the new board was a joint board. Greenwood Loyal comes together, everybody's there. And then there was a conversation about no, we got to split lines and have voting and and whatever. And you couldn't be on this board and on that board. So I would like more clarification on from Bob on what that looks like when we everybody keeps saying new board. Is that just two boards coming together? So that so that would be an intr board. So whenever a the resolution gets going here and maybe Bob is going to tell me I'm full but I don't think anybody know I'm not besides

084you I don't think anybody knows exactly how well okay in our discussion with them wait till Tuesday wait till Tuesday this conversation well I I think where I'm coming from is we we've had we've met now jointly for two years we're no closer to having any idea of what's going to happen than we were two years ago. And at some point we've got to start making some decision and having conversations about this is what we're proposing or this is what we're not proposing. And hopefully Bob can get us on that track. Otherwise, I think we're going to start losing the public. And you know, I think you saw that at the last meeting we only had two people here because we're not talking about progressing. Well, part of part of it is that I think

085there's a misconception that when we started working with Greenwood that consolidation was was an item on the agenda and it wasn't. It was all on collaboration, working together. So, it's really been just in the last year, but yet everyone feels maybe feels because we're working with them that it's been longer. Um I I think yes we need to certainly find out from WSB and then and then we need to start really digging more in the financial part of it looking at various scenarios and like I mentioned at at the previous we need to gather as much information as we can in this first probably three to six months but then analyze it and then make the decision so that we're not jumping ahead to saying well we're going down this path but we don't have

086all the information. I think we need we need to look at the facilities. We need to look at the programs and all of that before we can really make an effective recommendation. And so I know there's a lot of eagerness as far as that we should decide where the schools are. That's going to have to be down the road a little bit until we analyze the information. And so if we can if we can start getting timetables on when we're gathering the information and and you know trying to analyze it that would be helpful. Maybe maybe they can provide some in insight there. And maybe we need to ask him also hey you know the only other school the previous schools that have consolidated what you know what was their time frames on how they

087did that. I just want to mention too that after the joint meeting, I had several community members and business owners reach out saying that they voted yes because it was an advisory question. And I know we talked about this at the joint meeting and I know it was an overwhelming yes, but these are people that I don't know personally that they're not my friends that these are people that said, "Hey, thank you for saying that. It was an advisory question because how many times did did it get portrayed to the public? This is just to get an idea. This is just to get an idea of where we want to go. Do we want to keep looking at this or do we put it to bed? Do we um do you want to see a

088plan or should we not spend time, effort, money, whatever on a plan? So, there are yes vote. I'm not saying everyone's yes vote, but there are yes votes out there that were expecting a plan. And I think that's super important moving forward. I'm hoping Bob can give us a plan and we can start putting a plan together after his meeting how this works. The other the only thing I said was getting that plan together though. I think that too I heard that too whole here and is it going to come back? Are we going to get an opportunity again to vote you know on whether or not we like this plan and community too. So I would add that and then the only other concern I guess that that hasn't been brought up is that

089too um with the bar um being involved a lot of this initially started with our administrators talking to bar about this and what they wanted to come forward and what so I guess the concern is unbiased wise are we going to get an unbiased you know if we do a financial with that and with bar you know or how are they going to go forward if we got financials and did that how are we going to do that is it going to be I I would argue that Barrett is the financial advisor for our school but and Greenwood but a number of schools I would say a high percentage of schools I would I would say they are they are unbiased they're looking at numbers it certainly you know they didn't have all the information

090initially but they know that just looking at two districts that have some of the same costs you're going you know, eliminate those costs. So, that that was their first step. Yes, there needs to be more detailed information, but I I just want to go on record that I think that Barrett can continue to advise us on the financial aspect because of their strong strong relationship with with with so many schools. So, yeah. And just making sure that that's the board who's called Any other discussion on the the meeting on the Monday the second? Nope. Hearing none. 6.1 principal report. Hi, good evening. Um I just to start off that May is a busy month with all the end of the year wrap-ups and fun field trips that many elementary and middle school and high school

091students get to go on. Um so elementary started with breakfast with buddies. if you were part of that. There was over a hundred um people attending that event for our elementary. It was a great thing and looking forward to trying to get more family engagement activities for next school year planned. So, Souls put on a bike rodeo on Saturday the 3rd that was highly intended. We had someone from the county come in and talk about bike safety. And to follow up with that, we have Officer Kavissa coming on next Thursday as well as the fire department to talk to our elementary students specifically about rules of the road and how to be safe this summer on bikes, scooters, UTVs, and anything else they find to ride on. So, um, fourth grade had their annual Madison

092field trip. They went to see the capital, uh, went to the Veterans Museum and then finished the day with Cave of the Mounts. Um that was a fun trip for everyone. Lions put on the vision screening for K5. Uh we had kindergarten, first grade, um second grade go on numerous field trips this year that were most of them sponsored by the LEP sale that the fifth grade um Miss Hasslo and Miss Brent Mason put on for the elementary fundraiser. So all of that was sponsored through that. A huge shout out to Stop Construction who sponsored our first grade field trip. Um the kids got a cool yellow shirt um as they went to the children's imaginarium in Wasau. So thanks to them. Uh yesterday we had our elementary data day to prepare for the upcoming

093school year to look at where students sit. And last night we had our end of the year community meeting with um some families looking at planning for next year's family engagement activities to promote reading and um to come up with some fun family engagement activities basically. So middle school wrap up the year with banquetss. FFA had their banquet. FCCLA had their end of the year lunch um to celebrate all the great things that they had done over the year. We had a lot of field trips going on. Um, eighth grade had a career fair in Oaklair. Um, Spanish club had their field trip to Medford. We had the senior class trip. Our sixth, seventh, and eighth graders just had their reach trip to Action City. And then our eighth graders went to the Brewer Brewer

094game today. So, they should be back. Um, our seniors, the May of month of May is super busy. The first Wednesday we have the Elks awards that are in um Marshfield and then we have our senior banquet followed by all the fun planning of graduation and the chaotic week of trying to make sure everybody's passing and graduating and having their field trip and their last harrah with the practice on Friday and then graduation that occurred on Saturday. Um something for the entire district. We had our staff appreciation week which was put on the first full week of May. We had some fun little trivia for staff and pictures of them when they were younger and then some fun little treats throughout the week. New this year we had the educator and support staff of the

095year assembly. Some of you were there. It was it was a really fun day. We highlighted our seniors and we talked about staff that were leaving and staff that were retiring. And then we had our little end of the year assembly to congratulate Christy Zobelena, Gary Morrison for support staff of the year and Lori Rettmester for the elementary staff educator of the year and then Brandon Desmet for the middle school and high school educator of the year. Um that was a fun-filled event. A lot of the kids loved it. So, um, and then to wrap up, we had Mike Evans here to meet with our guiding coalition to make plans to move forward for next school year as to using our model of instruction and what that looks like um, in the school year. So,

096that's a quick wrap up like I said um, for next week, Thursday. For those of you who are listening or here, we have our end of the year awards for the middle school high school all planned. There should have been something sent out. 6th and 7th grade will be at 8:15. The high school 9th through 11th will be at 9:30 and 8th graders promotion will be at 10:45. Um, and we have a fun-filled event for all the elementary the whole week. So, it'll be busy. Hard to believe it's here. Thank you, Yeah. Oh, hey, 4K graduation. I missed that. Sorry. That's really important. Tuesday 10:30. Justin, you got anything? All right. Supers report 6.2. Uh, concession stand progress outside is for the most part finished. Electricity is completed uh last Friday. Waiting for state to

097inspect it. Plumbing is being worked on. Need to get a holding tank permit. Um so I know um to the county for approval a state sanitary permit. All right. Okay. Duly noted. Okay. So um Brad has been in contact with Ben on that. Um they are working starting to work on the interior. Um child care has been a topic. Um so after working we have a committee on it right now of four staff members. Um we are not going to offer any this anything for this summer. We are the committee is working on possibly something for the fall. So uh they are working on it. big discussion is on infant and ages and things like that and room. So, um they're working on it. We hope to have something in the near future. Uh Britney

098Walls from CISA, CISA 4 was here today, presented on the why for AI and the different um learning techniques that our students have compared to what we went to school. Um and even like Mrs. Komasburgger said in the last 8 to 10 years have changed dramatically. Um, and and she just talked a little bit about how students are bored and they're they're not the sit and get like maybe we were. They they need to be active and and doing things. So, she just kind of planted the seed in our staff. I know it's late in the year. Um, just trying to get things in their head so they have time to think about it over the summer. Um, she will be back um working with us in Greenwood on this. So, Uh, graduation Saturday went

099very well. Uh, congratulations to all our graduates. Uh, huge thank you goes out to all that were involved in setting up this special ceremony. I thought it was very nice. Uh, a lot of compliments on it. So, special thank you to Mrs. Kman'sburgger for working with that and getting it all settled. Uh I would like to contra con one more time congratulate uh our support staff people of the year Gary Morrison and Christy Zelena and our teachers of the year Lori Remester in elementary and Brandon Desmet in the middle school middle and high school. Um very deserving unbelievable staff members. Uh staff appreciation was celebrated the week of May 5th through the 9th. Um just had a lot of little different things going on for our staff members that that week and then the following

100week we had a couple days where they signed up for a 15-minute back massage. So very nice. Yeah. Can't thank the staff enough for everything they've done um and and do for our students. Uh, congratulations to the track and field sectional qualifiers. Uh, good luck to them uh, at Kobe on Friday. Uh, congratulations to the baseball team for winning the conference with an undefeated conference record last night. Lastly, congratulations and good luck to our retirees, Mary Ellen Johnson of 33 years and Mark Rereath of 42 years. don't see that very often or too much anymore. So, congratulations on everything they've done for us here. Thank you for your service. Yes. Um, I'd like to give a shout out to Derek and Tom for coming to graduation, handing out performance. It's nice to see you guys

101up there on stage. It was warm. In fact, I just want to say that I really enjoyed the um the ceremony for the support staff of the year and the teachers of the year and the um just recognizing our retirees and even the teachers that had decided to move on and seniors. It was it was really cool. Um it was cool to see it and the kids were excited and the the teachers were just as excited and it was it was really cool. I hope that that continues because it was really well attended and I thought it was a really good idea. It was nice having the entire building, all the kids in the gym at the same time. Yeah, it was very cool. I would like to thank I think Mrs. Coltonberg had a

102lot to do with that and organizing in that. Um I think Justin and Maya helped out also. Uh it was very nice. I really loved how it paraded the seniors in and they sat focal point and it went from there. was uh I I went to a session in our school board conference or state and and they talked about this and and it was it was awesome. So it was very cool. Yeah. So that was the change that Miss Hamlin and Mr. Schilling proposed that you guys approved. So, and I would like to thank them for initiating it, being that committee that really turned it into not that it was anything bad before, just something different. All right, I would agree. That was a very nice uh ceremony. And I like the idea that the

103it was the whole school, all the staff members, everyone there, and then getting getting the, you know, the seniors, um, some additional recognition and the little kids being able to see them. Um, I thought that was important, too. So, and and also just the other teachers that got nominated for teacher of the year all were called up in their respective groups and the and the support staff of the year. So there was a lot more people that got recognized than just those, you know, the the final ones. So it was well done. Lots of emotions in that. Yes. Yeah, there was. Before we set meeting dates, yeah, I forgot we have some thank you cards. Dear Loyal School Board and Administration, thank you for the beautiful hanging basket of flowers. They look amazing on my

104patio. It was very kind of you to think of me after my unexpected surgery. Your thoughtfulness was much appreciated. Thank you again. Teacher Nicole Nicole Reg uh loyal schools. Thank you so much for constantly supporting um our FBLA chapter specifically providing for our state and national registration and other accommodations. Our members greatly appreciate their state baskets as well. Thank you again loyal FBLA. Dear loyal admin and school board, thank you so much for the beautiful flowering pot you sent after my emergency surgery. I appreciate all the support you have given me. Denise Buso, uh thank you for your thoughtfulness during this difficult time. Uh in the passing of Dan Campbell, uh this was from Jean. We believe we had a plant down there for his funeral. So, okay. And let's go ahead and set some

105meeting dates. So joint is Monday at 7:00 at 7 in Greenwood. Regular would be 25th. 25th 25th. I think we need a finance sometime. Why don't you just email us about mean what what time works for you guys? Yeah. Would you do it? We going to start an hour earlier or something that same late or not. Or do you want before that? No, I want it before that please be before the next month meeting or something. Yeah, I'll email you. Wouldn't is a time matter like like evening six. So what week are you looking at? [Music] Um there maybe the 9th 16th that weekend those weeks Monday night won't work for me. I just meant that those weeks that those two weeks Monday night the 9th won't work for me but I know every day

106will. Okay 14th 7th through the 14th you're gone. Okay. Thursday nights are off for me. Let me throw let me throw some dates out before the 18th. The week 18th Wednesday we'll go way earlier. June 4th. There's kids school. I can't do two meetings next week. I'll throw some dates out. Okay. All righty. You should have entered our co weekly every week night. Justin, you just email us athletic. Yeah. Or uh we could probably talk about it right now. So, I'm hoping that we're still uh playing sports here uh June 19th. Uh so, would we be able to have our next athletic committee meeting on the 23rd or 24th of June? What time do you guys usually do that? 6 or 7? I mean, I got to look at the schedule. Okay, I can email

107it out. Otherwise, one of those nights should work. Okay, one of them would work, right? But was it 23rd or what? 23. 24. You want to fill in the grounds? are we going to hear from you guys parking lot? I did not and I talked to Brad today and I he didn't say anything about it. So email us. All right. Probably the week of the 16th. Just mornings work for you guys like we have 7:30 8 something like 7:30 work. No. Um, we did we met today or yesterday. We went to um just the points with the sheets. Um, they did not talk about meeting again. So, I will talk to them and see if they think they need to or want to or any public comment or clarification on uh new business items. I

108just had a question. What's the status of the golf course? I know it was on a previous facilities. We did talk about that at building and grounds. Yeah, building and grounds. Do you want to talk about Sam? We are working with um Sam Harter down and he's the groundskeeper at uh Newsville Country Club. Okay. So, we are working with him on it. We need to What I was going to do is get a mode. They have to be deetched. They're really thick and they need that. And he had he has a machine I believe that will help us help with that. So, he's talking about the greens. Greens. Is that what you're talking about? Yes. All right. Yeah. So, least we need to do is get a mode at least to a certain height. So,

109and then we can work on getting that. So, any other clarifications? Thank you all for coming and I believe we are going to go back into close session. Take a five minute recess. Motion. I'll make a motion. Go ahead. I'll make a motion. And then roll call D. Yep. M. Yes. Crystal. Yep.