0015.2 is to accept resignations rather than just one person more than one person. Um so we'll start with the pledge of allegiance. Algiance 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. [Music] First item was public comments. I don't believe we have any correct comments. Okay. So the first item after that is our board reorganization. So we will be deciding first of all deciding board officers um and then we'll proceed with with some other items. Um so the first item would be to for nominations for board president. Um just grab my sheet here. So nominations are open for president. I make nomination to appoint Derek Wy as board president. Eric has been nominated. I'll make a
002nomination to the board. Tom Tom has been nominated. Any other nominations? Any other nominations? Okay, hearing none. Is there a motion to close nominations for president? We'll make a motion to nominations. Second move and second to close nominations for president. All in favor say I. I. I. No. Motion carried. So now we'll hand out ballots. I'll hand out ballots for [Music] so myself and Eva. I've appointed her as the counter and pull your ballot receipt. Derek wire has five and Tom has two. Congratulations. Eric is the president. So would you like to start running the meeting? You can do it right right there. Yep. All right. What is the next? Next one would be vice president vice president. I could just pass that down. Yeah, that's fine. We will accept nominations for the vice president.
003I nominate Kirk. Any other nominations for vice president? Do a roll call vote. All those in favor of Kirk being vice president say I. I. I'll abain. Next up will be clerk. I nominate Tom. Nomination for Tom. Any other nominations? All those in favor of Tom as clerk say I. I. And finally will be treasurer. Open nominations for treasurer. I nominate that. Then a nomination for Matt. Do you accept that nomination? This is for which one? I mean the only thing is that there's an issue that comes up and I have to investigate the the treasur's position. I don't the treasure I mean is there any financials anything like that? You could you could meet with Julie sometime at least has a report. If that doesn't happen, we can have someone shouldn't be a confident,
004but there financially something's messed up and the police department has to come down look at something here. I'm the treasur. We'll allow you to abstain at that point. Yeah. Hey, that's the only accident I have cross that bridge when happens. Any other nominations for treasurer? All those in favor of Matt being treasurer say I. I. We will move into committees. First committee is building and grounds. Now, right. I think the committees we just we volunteer ourselves, right? Yes. So I was going to say before that is do you want to look at either combining a committee or two that you would think could or eliminate a committee and I'm just throwing it out there because every year we kind of look at that and you know what does it look like? Can we So let
005me let me run through the committees and then we can talk about if there's some that we think we can combine. Is that all right? Yeah. All right. So, we got building and grounds, finance, which is going to be full board regardless, policy, recruit and retain, student success and curriculum, athletics, communications and technology. Um, there is just a bullet point here. Communications and technology could probably be combined. That would be fair. whatever. Um, you know, recruit and retain is a pretty long meeting already. I don't know if we want to combine student success and curriculum with those. Probably not. No. Okay. No, just because your student success is more curriculum driven. All right. And and that's a usually that's a one to maybe two times a year you're meeting on that. A lot of it
006is in the early winter where you're looking at new courses for next for the following the next year. So So leave that alone. I would. So do we have to make a motion to combine communications and technology? Probably just to be safe. I'll make the motion to combine the committees of communications and technology. Second. Motion and a second to combine communications and technology committees. All in favor? I oppose. Motion carries. Um, so I think we'll start go right down the list. Generally speaking, we have three members on each committee approximately. Um, and finance obviously being a full board. Uh, so building and grounds. Dave, I'm on here now. Curt, I'll stay. You'll stay and I'll go on that one. So, we have myself, Kirk, and Davey policy. I'm on that state. And I'm on a
007di state. Okay. And that's only YouTube, right? No, it says how. No. Oh, sorry. Anybody else want to be on that on the policy committee? You guys work with Niola on updating our policies? Yes. So, the large amount of work has been done. All right. You we will go through um the second reading tonight on the policies and then we the next meeting in May we'll have a resolution and then in June it will be all they will should be all fix and on our on our um website or docs. So that is that what Dave said he will be in twice for updates during the school year. So if the policy committee wants to be on there, it's probably about what a two to three hour meeting and going through all the updates. So
008it is definitely much cleaner than what they have in the past. So, but a lot of Thank you guys for being a blunt of it was a year ago we started that front end of it. Do you think that you need three? Wouldn't hurt to have another set because we go through so much. But I can I'll All right. So, we have Kirk, Tom, and Crystal on the policy committee. Recruit and retain. I'll stay on. I'll stay. I said I said I'll stay. Nikki said she would. So I've got Matt Kirk and Nikki. Student success and curriculum. I am currently on there. I would like to join that. I would too. You stand here. Yeah. Thank you. Myself and Crystal. Athletics. I'm myself and Matt. Matt and uh and then we would need one more.
009I'll do that one. And then finally the combined of communications and technology. So communications used to meet twice a year, technology is three times a year and the second Monday. So how would that combining them like how many times would you meet? We didn't meet that often, right? It's more like when when something comes up and it wants to talk a little bit about future things, give us an update. It's been a little while. As I said, I don't even in the last year I don't even know three of the five. Did we? No, I think three two or three of them that one. I can be on. I want to get off. Okay. So, Nikki and Tom. Now, move into the official depository. Historically, it has been Citizen State Bank. Correct. Y and then
010we'll need a motion to that effect to to keep it there. Motion in a vote. So I'd entertain a motion to approve Citizen State Bank as the official depository. I'll make that motion. Kirk makes a motion. Second. Second by Nikki. All in favor? Oppos. Motion carries. The official newspaper for the Loyal School District has been the TRG. Motion to that effect. Matt makes that motion. Second. Crystal seconds. All those in favor? Oppos? No. Motion carries. We'll hold off on school attorney. Yes. Okay. I got some questions and I So next month already and then uh the CISA representative. We need one board member for this. Uh normally two meetings a year. Tom, were you you've been I would Yeah, I have been. I I would be willing to unless someone else wants to wants to
011be the CESA rep. I think it's really only one week September or August you have something August I believe attending the annual meeting overall it's August it's August sorry Thursday August 7th is the at 7 p.m. and chip balls. Okay, sounds like stay on. Okay, so I think I heard a motion for Tom to stay. You got it. You got a motion for Tom to remain the CISA representative. All those in favor? I post no. Motion carries. Tom is the CISA rep. Okay. Uh setting meeting dates and times just generic here. We're going to say fourth Wednesday of each month unless otherwise notified. All those in favor of the fourth Wednesday of each month unless notified say I post. No. I believe that covers everything in 3.4. At this time, we'll move down to the
012consent agenda items. Uh, the last couple of meetings, we've been approving minutes jointly. Um, so if you guys are okay with that, I'd like to keep that. But first, I did have two questions on events. Under the, uh, regular monthly board meeting minutes, uh, you talked about the CISA contract and you were going to go back to CISA. How did that conversation go? Good. And that was so we went down one one day on special ed director which cut us 33,000. Got rid of uh that LS 1B 15,000. Then we cut our um college career readiness in half to 6,500. So, they will do some um gifted and talented um items for us or with us with our GT that's in the elementary and I believe there's something in the middle school. So, they got
013some things that they will come and do for us with that. So, so yeah, uh there's been good good savings there. And then, uh building and grounds committee meeting, will you be talking about the concession stand in your update? I will. Okay. I can just ask the questions then. Okay. Uh any questions regarding the approval of the minutes on 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4? I'll move that we accept the consent agenda items of those four minutes for those those committee or board meetings. Tom uh makes a motion and Kirks. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Uh financial reports. Holly would have been our treasurer, so we probably don't have a financial report for this month unless everything's good. Do you have it pulled up? Um, I was just going to say we should maybe mention
014the balances and the accounts of each of the funds. You have it right there. You have a hard copy right there. Right here. That would just be continuation. You want the general fund balance? Yeah. That's 31,533,29462. And the fund 46 capitalist project balance of 3312025 is 111,62.18. And fund 73 checking balance of 3125 is $597,62359. Any questions on the financial report as presented? Can I get a motion to approve the financial report as presented? I'll make a motion. Dave makes a motion to approve. Seconds. All those in favor. I oppose. No. Motion carries. New business 5.1 presentation. Kristen Iker on craftsman with character. Uh, I do have physical copies so that if anybody needs one just sent out, but anyone else need Um, so this kind of came up because between conversations with some of
015the teachers, students, and then kind of better strategic planning, there was a lot lot of talk about need to increase opportunities for students who weren't necessarily looking at four-year colleges or going um into school at all after high school and just kind of going out into the workforce. Um so I had gone to a trans transition conference in February and this program was mentioned um and it was used by a student with a disability but it is for all students to use um and be part of. Um then I attended after that I came back and I kind of contacted them and just got some more information and then Mrs. Coleman'sburgger and Mrs. Funston also sat in on another meeting with them virtually and got some more information. Um so then what this program is
016it's a nonprofit that's created to and their slogan is to build an industrial workforce of young people who live and work with purpose and character. Um, and kind of the purpose of it is to get students out and the cooperation between the school and these local businesses in the areas of trade, industry, manufacturing, agriculture, and kind of all of those kind of pieces. Um, for students who are hoping to pursue some of those careers. And what this kind of looks like is it would kind it would run as a class in school. Students could take it for a trimester. um it would probably cover two class periods because what they do is they go out 4 days a week into a local business in one of those areas and they um shadow that worker for
0173 weeks about um and they see all the on the job things that that person does and all their responsibilities and throughout the trimester they'll go to three or four different placements within those areas. Um they'll gain the insight in into the industry. They'll do a lot of hands-on activities. um and have that mentor person that they are working with in that company or in that business. Um and then the fifth day of the week is a character building program. So this company provides the curriculum and it's typically they want it facilitated by one of those companies that's working through somebody who or it could be someone in the community who wants to do some community outreach or work with kids, retired teachers, however that is. but they said they see better results with that
018character piece coming from somebody who's not a teacher that they see every day. Um, and it really focuses on those soft skills like what they'll need in the workplace. Um, and all that character building that they might not get otherwise. Um, and so kind of the next step and kind of where we're going is potentially looking at this kind of rolling out maybe mid year next year. Um the next steps are kind of to reach out to businesses and talk to them, get some of these collaboration pieces going. Um so then my plan is to kind of hit up one of the or probably multiple of the um chamber business um meetings and kind of present to those businesses and let them know like this is the program we're looking for. Um there's no cost
019to the district. This is all um a nonprofit organization and the only cost that would potentially happen is transportation. Um and in the past in other areas where this program has kind of spread, it started on the um west coast of on the west or east side of Wisconsin and it's kind of spreading throughout now. Um sometimes businesses cover those travel expenses. Sometimes students are allowed to drive themselves like they would if they were doing work release. Um, and that's kind of a decision that's up, but that's typically the only cost that comes along with this program. Um, so again, it's for any student in school, and that's kind of just a bit. So, so then we're just kind of moving forward and looking for business businesses to kind of step into some of those
020roles to help that students. Any questions? Just one question. I So I was clear on there was there was also um kind of overview of of kind of some um work experience for students in the special education department. Yeah, we were looking at that kind of separately and that's kind of just within the special ed department of how do we get those kids out into the community? Not for necessarily such formal work experience but just more informal experiences like in the librarying books or just some of those minor things too. But that's something we're also looking forward to. Um, and we'll hopefully reach out to business other businesses within the community as well outside of just that trades and manufacturing area. So, that's the piece that's on the front. Ideally, how many businesses are you
021hoping that you can get in a small area, but we can branch out like outside of just loyal. It can be anywhere kind of surrounding. They usually say try to stay within 20 to 25 miles just because of travel time. They want kids in the company or business as much as possible. Um, and they provide training for like the mentors in the businesses and the companies that are willing to step up and do this. But I guess there's really no set number. It's the more we have, the more opportunities we can offer to the kids and the more kids that can be involved in it. So cool. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Now to get this approved as an actual class, do you guys and then you'll just bring it on to that
022that try as an option. But kids So when will kids sign up for that those classes? It kind of depends on who I what businesses we see here. Yep. And how long it takes to kind of get those and then kind of best case scenario try two. Worst worst case try three. Yeah. And then it probably would be a small group to start kids who have openings in their schedules or something. Specific interest I think helps, you know, hopefully starting small and building. Yeah. No, I think it's great. Yeah. Thank you. Uh uh 5.2 accept resignations. Okay. Dear Mr. Linder and the loyal school board. As academic year draws to a close, I'm writing to inform you my dis my decision to resign from my position as high school middle school art teacher effective end
023of June or June 6th, 2025. Uh thank you for all the wonderful professional opportunities, personal development that you have provided me during the last two years. I felt well supported and enjoyed working for loyal schools. It has been a privilege to work with the learning community and contribute to the art education of loyal students. I will continue to fill fulfill my duties as such. It is it is at this time that I feel compelled to spend my future days making, creating, and focusing the majority of my time on art. With this as my goal, it is necessary to simplify and redirect my life's energies to this purpose. Thank you for your understanding. I'm very excited about the opportunities that lie ahead and will always hold Loyal and his people close to my heart. Sincerely, Mary
024Crowy. Uh, second resignation. Dear Mr. Lindner and members of the school board, I am ready to formally resign from my position as ESL par profofessional effective June 6th, 2025. This decision comes as I have chosen to return to college full-time to complete my degree. While I am excited for the next step in my life, it is difficult to leave the students I have lead the students I have watched grow each day and the colleagues who have supported and guided me during the my time at Loyal. It has been a pleasure to work alongside you all and I hope our paths cross again someday. Thank you and I wish you all continued success and prosperity. Sincerely, Jose Aras. So my recommendation is to approve these uh and wish these guys good luck in their future endeavors.
025I also want to thank Mrs. Crowy for she was an active part in the little dogs program right after school. Yep. So just special thank you to her for all of her time doing that too and she created the article. So thank her very much for all her work here. Motion resation motion by Matt, second by Crystal. All those in favor to accept the resignations. I opposed. Motion carries. 5.3. We have the second readings of the Niola policies. The categories are 5,000 students, 6,000 finances, 8,000 operations, and the act 20 policy. And this these are the second readings. Correct. So from here next month we would make the resolution and they would be accepted. Then we would able take them and clean them all up and make them ours and then we be able to
026put them on in June or he said it's about three or four weeks to get that done. So okay and it'll be on board docs for everyone. Now we've we've essentially approved all NOA policies that they presented minus but these are these are just updates. I just want to make sure our title N policy is remained the way we it is right now. Okay. All right. So that is something that we can if we need to look at it we can look at it. Sure. He said we can change them anytime. Okay. We or update them however we want. All righty. So one side do we have anything out there we have we did dress we did sell all that was taken care of correct all done right okay just clarifying all right on okay
027yes bless you uh I'll look for a motion to approve the second readings of the manual policies I'll make a motion Kirk makes the motion I'll second second by Tom all those in favor I opposed. Motion carries. 5.4 approved Niola policy updates volume 33 number two and volume 34 number one. We tabled these at the last one. Yep. Yep. So this was I don't know if we couldn't get on them or or whatever, but what you have is 33 basically goes through everything that light change and then 34 goes into a little more in depth of of what we did here. So, um I know Kirk you asked um about it. Uh it is it's that day we were here on a snow day and we're here for 5 hours and these are the ones
028a lot of them are ones that we have gone through before but then we touched on maybe the last half hour on there was updates from state law and stuff and some of these exact that that's the main thing. All right. Some of it was just like wording it a little better and changed the right theme of the of the policy just made it read a little correct. So yeah, we went through and read them all. So I'll make a motion to approve them. Kirk makes a motion to approve the know policy updates. Second. Matt seconds. Motion in a second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. 5.5. Hire a fifth grade teacher and a middle school social studies teacher. We'll take these one at a time. Okay. Um fifth grade teacher. I would recommend
029that we hire Jennifer Jud. Uh Jennifer has been teaching for the past four years. She has received her undergraduate from WSP Stevens Point uh in elementary ed and will be finishing her master's degree in ed leadership from Grand Canyon University in May. We are looking forward to her energy and enthusiasm as our fifth grade teacher next year. Do you guys have any comments or We are very excited uh to be be presenting Jennifer Jud in front of you today. Um very solid candidate. Um very excited to have her a part of our team. I move that we hire Jennifer Jud as our fifth grade teacher. Second, Tom and Nikki. All those in favor of hiring Jennifer Jud as the fifth grade teacher. I opposed. Motion carries. Social studies teacher. Okay. I'm going to recommend Brooke
030label. Level label. Level. All righty. Sorry. Uh Brooke is currently finishing up her student teaching experience in Lady Smith. She attended Wclair and is earning a degree in broad field science. We are very excited to have her in the social studies position, middle school social studies position starting next year. Anything on Brooke? Absolutely. So Brooke is finishing up her student teaching right now. um just has a lot of energy and enthusiasm and again really looking forward to to her being in that social studies position. With that take a motion to approve. Kirk makes the motion. Crystal seconds. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Welcome to Loyal 5.6 Six, approve out of state field trips. So this summer we have two out of fields field uh field trips, out of state field trips. Um Mrs.
031Odin is taking uh a group of FCCLA members to a national event. Uh the conference is July 5th through the 9th. Uh travel dates will be July 4th through the 10th. Uh 2025 in Orlando, Florida. We have nine or I'm sorry, we have 10 competitors uh plus the advisor attending. We may have a student and a parent who will attend the conference as well, but they will pay their own way and not expense to the district. So, um, just piggyback off this, um, and I'll both of the principal report and my report will have more on this, but, um, our FCCLA club, uh, I thought really dominated the state conference on awards and things like that and had a state officer this last year and um, we'll talk more about it, but uh, did an
032unbelievable job. Had 29 participants at state. Uh I have 10 going on to national. So um fabulous job. That's phenomenal. Y you want to do these separately or Oh, I'm sorry. No, we can do them together. Um FBLA national event. Scott Schiller, Mr. Schiller is our adviser. Um, the National FBA conference will be held in Anaheim, California from July 29th to July 2nd, June 29th to July 2nd, 2025. Uh, we have two members competing in the local chapter annual business report, uh, Eddie Woof and Joe Trefinger. Um, and one member attending as a state officer, Jonah Burks. Um, I will be attending with them. Uh, plan on meeting in Anaheim on June 28th and returning on July 3rd. Um again had a number of uh participants at the state level and quite proud of the
033ones that made it to the nationals. So great achievement by by these. So I would recommend the approval of these field trips. Make a motion to approve the state field trips. Second. Matt makes a motion to approve the out of state. Second by Davey. All those in favor. Opposed? Motion carries. 5.7 uh health insurance update. No action on correct on. Um so in in close we talked about insurance uh in part of our handbook uh just to get everyone up to speed. So we have been in a consortium 13 school consortium through M3 out of Wasau. Um we have been with Aspirus uh and the consortium decided to go out for bid um and security health came back um much lower than the 12% increase that Aspirus had for this coming year. Uh it was
034it was a major flip-flop. Uh so the consortium has voted and approved to go to security health. Um what Julia talked a little bit about was the two the two plans that we are going to offer our staff. Um we have a on May 7th we have an M3 rep coming and we'll sit down with our staff and go through the two different plans. a narrow network which would be a marshmallow clinic only and then a uh premiere that would have many other uh possibilities oak leaf aspirus things like that that they could choose from. So uh we will have more information and probably look for approval on this when we have our May meeting. we will know numbers will be better because we'll know who's taking what plan and after the seventh or a
035week or two after that. So we'll know where exactly our savings are and go from there. And I know I had asked you the question that the insuranceances are equal that you're they're not getting less. We're getting a better deal but the insurance isn't getting worse. Correct. Correct. and we talked what was the reason why the decrease um or why did security come in so much lower than than Aspirus is. I do believe they are and we talked in our consortium that they are trying to get Marshfield Clinic back on its field feet and and working with us um and trying to utilize that with Sanford buying them out. That's their main goal is to get them back where they were years ago. So this is one way that they are really intriguing that or
036pushing that development. Good on that one. Yep. Thank you. 5.8. Approve the 6603 agreement with Granton for a shared library IMC director. Uh we have shared uh I'm going to recommend that we continue this agreement with Granton. We say we share um uh library IMC director with Granton. Um they are the what would you say? The a fiscal agent. Yes. Thank you. Um and they share with us it's 50/50 split has worked very well for us. Um so I would recommend that we continue with this. How many years how many years have we done this? I don't know. I would say 8 to 10. Okay. Yeah. And we do not share this position with Greenwood. We do not. I move that we approve the 6603 agreement plan for the shared library. I'm C. I'll second.
037Tom makes the motion seconded by Crystal. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. 5.9 Approve teacher contracts for the 2526 school year. So I believe there's a generic possibly um contract on board docs. Um I'll just talk real quickly. We did have we used to have letters of intent and our attorney three four years ago said he recommended making it an official contract. So there was some language on that contract that um um basically said that if need be we could position wherever and there was some other language in there that clarified to our staff. Um so and it's been the same since three four years ago. So I recommend as our 2% raise on it that uh we approve the 2526 teacher contracts. The matrix is also included in this. Yep. And that
038updated matrix should be to you. All right. And referenced in the contract. Okay. Yes. questions. Can we anticipate the contracts going out May 15th? They got till June 15th. I got you guys. Any other questions? hearing none. Entertain a motion to approve. Matt makes a motion to approve the teacher contracts. Second. Second by Kurt. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. 5.10 discussion. school district consolidation with Greenwood. So, um, real quickly, talking about the vote that was at the beginning of April, um, I thought outstanding voter turnout between the two communities. Um, 2100, just under 2150 people voted. Um we know we're 67 68% in Loyal, 78 in Greenwood. Um so the communities have spoken. Uh May 5th, we have um our first joint board meeting with the new board members uh in Loyal in
039Loyal 7:30 live streamed um and just kind of getting a basis of where we're at and what are what are our next steps, where where do we move from here? So, but I think a lot of it is getting everyone on the making sure everyone's on the same page. uh looking in the future, possibly having uh Bob Butler from WSB come and talk and present and talk a little bit more about in depth with uh consolidation. He is an attorney with WSB. So I I guess uh before you read what you got um I maybe I'll just put you on the spot. Where do you see it going next? I would say get this established. This established as what do you mean by this? Make sure the boards are in agreement of that we move
040continue moving forward. Um I start working on a timeline, start making sure our details are where they need to be and start working on what does it look like. So, um, where do you see now if you if you back up a year and a half ago when we did the first study that the plan was we were going to do this study if people came back in support of it, we were going to get a feasibility study done and then we were going to do a facility study. So, we gotten a feasility study now. So are will the next steps and this will be the conversation at the next board but should we now be talking facility study? I would argue I'd say we got financial study. We didn't get a feasibility study. We
041got a got a study. I was going to mention that in here from our two superintendents was strongly driven by the document that was at that green room when I questioned about collaboration consolidation. It said it was strong this was strongly recommended by administration and that that was all we ever got was a financial. we didn't get a feasibility of, you know, where the schools all that stuff. Sure. Yeah. And I Yeah, I think that's so that would be up to the two boards that that is something that we can talk about what what are our next steps and and our communities have spoke. I I believe and where do we go? What do we want to do? Obviously, people have we've thrown out timelines and different things about 2829. We've talked about things like
042that. I think now that we have a direction um now this the work the actual work really starts. So we did have uh CISA 10 just which is a facilities uh CISA they came through just the other day and walked through our building and just they have not been in here as a facility uh to walk through and and look at our building. All right. That was just a scratch of they wanted to get things introduced to them and and just see. So nothing talking about facility v uh feasibility or facility study or anything like that but just they wanted to see what we are about and um they've already been in the greenwoods. So that would be another resource that we would have at our hands. So I think is the reason why we
043wanted them in our building too. Do we have money allocated for that in our cease contract already? Is that something? No, that would that that would be right now would be something different. Something different. This was uh just to get them in and then we can talk about stuff like that on the 5th. So, Matt, I'll let you have the floor on that if I got any other questions. Yeah, I'll go. This is this is the the form that was handed out the Greenwood board meeting that wasn't televised and nobody really got it. Okay. Except for the board members. And it was just basically talking about how possibly through staffing there's a cost of maybe $990,000 possibly. And it was talking it talked about the three building study and the two building study. in place
044going. But since we brought this up, I just wanted to to show that basically in that study, it showed by keeping three schools together and if we continued to operate the way we did, at the end of five years, the three school system, we'd be 10,992,894 in debt. on the two building studies we continued after five years of consolidation we would be at $7,2316 in the whole basically still a needing referendum money right that was with no operational referendums correct right which we have said now that we will need operational referendums to continue so I just I guess I had some comments about this we were talking about it and I have this study and I know Mr. Litner and I talked a little bit and he had the 2006 feasibility study that he could
045have and I guess I would recommend also possibly down the road to having that that actually on our website that's showing what they said in 2006. So I guess just some things I wanted to share and some things I thought went through. I think we should develop an actual plan for consolidation with details and have it ready for the ballot vote in the communities by the fall of 2026 before we would actually make the motion as a school board to start the 18-month process of for consolidation. I think the plan needs to be transparent and state where the school buildings would be located as it is not financially feasible to keep all school buildings open. I think it should indicate who the new superintendent would be or what the process for the selection of the
046superintendent would look like and I think it should indicate the amount of referendum dollars the voters would be asked for the first year of consolidation. Um here's part of that study in 2006 and I just just again I just took some of the important parts of it. Here are parts here. Here are parts of a news article from when the consolidation study was back done back in 2006 for the Loyal and Greenwood. The Greenwood and Loyal school districts should consolidate soon or risk devastating by declining enrollment. That was the blunt recommendation unveiled Monday night by the Minnesota based consultant hired jointly by the neighboring districts in front of both school boards and the loyal in the loyal gymnasium packed with curious onlookers. I believe his name is Dr. Dogger Warner used transparencies to present the
047condensed version of the 114page joint organizational analysis study he was hired to conduct several months ago. The Twin Cities based administrator says he has performed similar studies for hundreds of school districts and broke down the broke broke the study down into six chapters ranging from demographics to financials to facilities. The summary of the plan later in the article was as follows. Under Warner's seven-point recommendation, the high school of the consolidated district would be located in Loyal. The junior high in Greenwood and each town would maintain an elementary. The consolidated districts should move as quickly as possible to sell the existing Greenwood Elementary building. Also later in the article, it said perhaps the biggest point of interest for those in attendance was Warner's recommendation that the high school be in Loyal even though his study found
048Greenwood's facilities were more modern. Loyal is the larger district and has the largest critical mass of students. It is more centrally located and has tended to draw more students from Greenwood than Greenwood has drawn from Loyal. I'm reading the article to start the start the discussion about actually making a detailed plan for consolidation as that was what the majority of the residents in both communities voted for. The loyal school strategic planning committee just recently voted for trust and transparency as one of the one of our top three priorities for the next three to four years as a loyal school district and making a detailed plan that our citizens and taxpayers can get can get to vote on before formally committing to consolidation with Greenwood is the only way to truly live up to that. Now
049with that last thing and then I will stop. I just wanted to go back and look on something else. I looked at here in Greenwood's um March minutes district administrator report says page 59. I think we need to be clear about the idea of consolidation does not mean that a school has to close. That was a district administrator in Greenwood's thing. We have talked about consolidation and what has to h I mean, if we're not gonna have a plan, if we're if we're not closing schools down, I've been arguing that's collaboration. I talked about continue. If we're going to keep all three schools open by that report, we're collaborating. We're not consolidating there. in order to consolidate. I think people need to be told the truth of there is possibly going to be things closing
050in and jobs. You know, that's what I I just think it needs to be. That's that's my concern. That's what I've been trying to preach all along. So, and I know when the three school study came out, I I raised that concern right away. I said, I don't see a scenario where all three buildings open up or stay remain open. When I think of consolidation, I think of, you know, the we all know that the infrastructure is where the money is, right? So, by closing one of those buildings, that's where your cost savings is. Yeah, there's administrative, but we're talking millions when you close a building, not hundreds of thousands. So, I would agree to that point. I'll just add that I I think it's important to remember and I agree. I think there's like
051an overwhelming um majority that came back that said they we want to look at this and and further look at this and I don't disagree but we have to remember that it's an advisory question and there people are saying we want to look at it. So I know that like I've had several conversations with with community members and people that voted no said well I voted no and there's a lot of reasons but a big reason was because I don't know what the plan is. And some people that voted yes voted yes because I want to know what the plan will look like. But I think it's important that we like we've talked about or the board has talked about in the past making sure we go back to ballot with a specific plan um
052whatever that looks like and making sure that we have like you had said process for selecting a superintendent how much we're going to need for referendum. I think a lot of people think that we don't need operational referendums moving forward if we consolidate. So, it's just important, I think, that we as we're working towards possible scenarios that we're just making it very clear when we go back and ask again. And I also think like and they were talking about the cost savings of a teacher instead of having a teacher here teaching eight kids and a teacher there teaching six kids, you know, saving that teacher so that teacher could maybe off teach another offering. How are you going to do that when they're in two different buildings? Would it be easier if everybody was in
053a building and not three buildings? I think everybody's getting ahead of themselves. The question on the ballot was, should we consolidate? Are we as boards going to go against what the public is telling us? Figuring out where the school is going to be should be done later. It should be done by a new board, not by the boards we have at this point. That's that's not being and I you and I we know that you said you disagree with my that's not being transparent. That's not being I've heard you are being transparent. We're telling them we don't possibly kind of aren't we kind of punting on it then. We're hey we'll let somebody else figure it out. We're going to tell you to do it then we'll let somebody Isn't that what the public told
054us? Let's let's just let's there'll be a lot of discussion um at at our upcoming meeting. I would encourage people let me finish here. I would encourage people to attend the meeting. Um so I guess getting back to a few things that that Matt shared. Um I was involved in the community support group back in 2006. Um, so I I know what went on as far as leading up to that and and it was a strong very strong decision made by both communities that at that time they did not want to consolidate. Um, and so as a result of that that was not looked at from that point forward. I I think the boards did not consider looking at consolidation because that was probably the third third time at least that that communities have looked
055at consolidation over the past 60 years. So it was very strong there. Um I would I would say that there's probably a lot we can learn from that feasibility study. And I would say that the reason we asked the question of whether we should consolidate was we wanted to know the general feeling of the public before we proceeded to spend additional money on feasibility financial studies. the the initial study by bar was simply looking at some shared services um reduction to one administrator and was not look looked at any um change in the current building building situation. So that definitely would need to be looked at. Um I I won't disagree with you that the the cost savings would you know considering closing a building if need be or how how you do that you
056know would result in in savings. I think we have been clear that we would need to to look at an operating referendum in the scenarios that we consolidate, but it would it should be significantly lower than what both boards currently have had to operate with. And that's I think the question my feeling the the the the reason that people were considering it strongly was a financial issue. both schools would just assume keep the schools where where they're at without having to consolidate. I think it's a financial issue that with declining enrollments there there we need to make a change because we cannot continue to ask our public to increase that amount year every 5 years when we need new funds. So I think as Kirk said, we're getting ahead of ourselves as far as what
057we need to do. I think we should be coming up with timets as what what do we want to do by by certain dates and then um and then proceed that way and and if it comes to where we can put everything together by the fall of 206 and have that vote if if that's what we decide I think that would be then let's let's all work together to try to to come up with that. I think Do you agree that that it will take more than just a couple of months to get a fe I mean if you guys are pushing this timetable for December of 2026 to make a resolution we need to get this building study or feasibility study going. So yes I would agree that we would need to yes I
058would not um that was my biggest thing because there was conversation in the past about well maybe we won't even do a feasibility we'll just keep working but I think we need to bring it back to the taxpayers with a plan with that feasibility. That's what I'm concerned because because I mean I I guess where we're where is that we need I guess let's leave it that way that that we need to make sure that we have some plan before that time frame that people can have the right opportunity to come back and vote on say right this is what we know is going to or where these are going to be yeah yeah I think and we'll talk more on that the meeting but I I think starts out by you know trying to
059get combined um have Baird Financial do a combined analysis there. You're already both using Baird. Um if we can use CISA to help us with a feasibility study rather than to hire an outside consultant that costs tens of thousands of dollars for both districts last time. Um that would be key and WSB certainly and and how to utilize that. Um and if CISA 10 can provide some input, that'd be great. So I think that we need to come up with some concrete steps as to how and and certainly we want to involve staff as far as okay how how how can that look merge together because we know that you know it's going to look different than what we currently have. So the community, the staff, you know, there is going to be plenty of
060discussion times and and and the last thing I'd like to say is we need to make sure we primarily focus on our students and being able to provide the same or better education than what they're getting now. And that's going to be key because we need to structure, you know, wherever the buildings end up being, we need to structure them in such a way that we're positive that we're we're providing as good an education or better than what we can provide independently. Now, um, so that's my my two cents plus tonight. Thank you, Dave. What do you got? 5.11. You said move 5.11. You got anything? Um, in our township since I'm clerk, 83% of the people come out and voted which is extremely high. Um, it was higher actually than when you got on
061Derek. So, yeah, it was we had 83%. Um, and I did send an email out, Crystal and Nikki didn't get it because they weren't I didn't have their emails at the time to the rest of the board that I think we need to know the rules and we need to get WSB in here to a meeting soon as possible for what the public has told us. Well, I would agree with that and I would like to see, you know, a graph with a timeline on it with with dates and something that is shared universally so we're not, you know, somebody's thinking it's December, somebody's thinking it's April. No, this is this is the timeline. We have to meet these marks and that's got to be shared in both districts and that's got to be what
062the people see. I have I did do Bob's presentation that they're talking about. I did get that from Joe Green and I look through and I understand a fair amount of them timelines, but it's state statutes and I'm no lawyer. Right. So that's why I want WASB in here. So Joe and I are meeting with Bob Butler next week and then our plan would be to have him in a second joint board meeting sometime. Clarification. Bob Butler is who? WASB, our Wisconsin School Boarders Association. They provide service and he is a lawyer for them. It's more or less like a free lawyer for advice to the school district. Okay. Can I just ask you so that you would look into though talking to CISA? I don't know if there would be any cost in the
063feasibility study and also talking to see what their combined feasibility study between the two school districts would be at least so we can make a determinant. Now when we first started talking was going to look Myron was going to be a 15 grand to do the feasibil the facility study cuz bar was going to be feasibility and then my financial was going to be so yeah so that's something that we got to take a look at right all right and that that's we had cease come in just get another viewpoint so We'll reach out. We'll make sure we got prices for those. Okay. One thing that I had said a while ago in a public comment before I was in this position was that um I thought that it was important for a nonbiased study
064because I just and I I still think so. I think that and I don't know I don't know the ins and outs of the feasibility study or um or the financial or the facility but I think in order to be transparent and to um give people like a plan that it needs to be nonbiased and and I guess I don't know I'm wondering like what is the administration you and Mr. Green's role in like feasibility studies like do you guys if it's an outside source we would we would be you remove yourselves from it. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't I don't remember how it was. You had an ad hoc committee back in ' 06 or '07 and that was 20 people I believe from both communities that drove a lot and I believe it
065was very similar to how we just did our strategic plan more of a listener all right than an involved person. So Crystal, correct me if I'm wrong. I think like what I'm concerned of is we're going to hear this was already determined. you know, the the superintendent's already put the bug in the the consultant's ear, you know, do uh figure out the outcome and work your way back. And to avoid that, how do we avoid that or how how can we avoid that, I guess? Well, I think the board here is like we set the policies for the school. So, the board should be setting the policies for these new school districts or the outlines, not the administrators. It's us as a board doing this. The administrators give us advice because we need to work
066with them and they got the connections. But we need to be in on the meetings I think more that with the administrators as a board to WB or to whoever feasibility studies or whatever we look at that time. So then we won't be getting that. No, it's them. It is the board that made this decision. I was just going to say, yeah, I agree with what you're saying and and that is kind of what I'm saying. I mean, we've heard that already is, well, you know, there's there's an agenda already set or there, you know, they already know they already know where the schools are going to be. So, they just they're going to maybe we could start out by clearly saying tonight that we do not we do not know where the schools are
067going to be located. So let's make it clear that we there is no secret plan as to where schools are going to be that we've got a predetermined you know so that would be the first step is to say well we've said that the whole time but you still so have I shared have I shared some scenarios that I I thought yeah I'd shared a few but those are one of or three or four of hundred you know what I mean so and I think that's why I'm saying it's important for a non like a nonbiased feasibility setting. That's why I asked because that way nobody can say, you know, well, this was Mr. Lner's plan or this was Mr. Green's plan or or whoever. This this was the best interest of whatever piece always
068come back. But I agree, Tom. Yeah. Yeah. The boards need to be involved so the community don't think it's just administrators. I do I with Derek you mentioned about making sure um you know we have the timeline and I say you know certainly the websites we need to make sure we're we're keeping information correct and up to date there um and then um yeah that that would be a way to show that this these are the steps that are taken and when meetings are being held and and what where things are going. D, are you ready to move to 5.11 yet? I just think it was a good talk to get it off. Any other discussion? We're going to be discussing this for the next six weeks, three years. See you Monday. Any other discussion
069on that? All right, let's move on to 5.11. discussion and action on the shared technology coordinator position for Greenwood and Grant. Okay. So, right now we are sharing Mr. Hendrickson with Grant and um one day Sam Katnok is also with Granton. Uh we are setting up Have a good night guys. Thanks for coming. Thank you. Um, we do have a um talk to Mr. Green a little bit about this. Uh, we are working on setting up a a meeting with Mr. Hendrickson, Mr. Katnau and us two and probably Mrs. P and put things down and so early May and doing something where we can figure this out. Okay. Greenwood's um it is retiring. So this is what kind of spurred this. So and looking down the road that would put all three of us kind
070of on the same system and same programming. Correct. Uh be more uniform than what it is right now. So and cost savings. So, how do we split it up? A three-way split. That is what we need to sit down and talk about. Okay. You don't have that figured out? No. Okay. So, we just uh Travis and I have talked uh you know, ever since he's gotten here, we've, you know, that was kind of end goal here. And and so we'll see what we can work out and and go from there. So, so no action tonight. Wait till No, just I was just Yeah, just updating you. Moving into number six. Other business. 6.1 Principles report. Oh, I'm sorry. I wasn't on that one. My bad. 5.12 discussing possible action of the golf team proposal. Okay.
071Uh I will let our athletic director, Mr. take our role with this. Yeah. So, just so everybody knows, we're talking about the spring of 2026. This is not something that we're looking at for this year cuz we can't um little bit of background on how we got here tonight. Um early in the school year, I had a couple students kind of approach me very casually and say, "Hey, like what do you think about golf?" And I just I don't know, didn't really think too much of it. I had heard that we had a golf team uh in the past and I know that these students like eat, sleep, and breathe golf. Uh I enjoy golf myself and every time I went to Neilville this summer, they were there and it wasn't a whole lot. So
072I'm guessing that they were there just about every day. Um so that brings us to last week. Last week they approached me and were like, "Hey, like we're serious. Like can you please look into this for us?" And I said, "Sure." So I contacted WIAA to see what that would look like in having a new sport and they said hey you can do it but May 1st is your deadline if you are going to have a team for 2026. Um so after hearing that kind of reached out to both Derek and Matt on the athletic committee to get their thoughts. Um we put up a sign sheet on Monday. On that signup sheet there were quite a few names on there. there were anywhere I think it was tw 10 to 13 namesish. Um realistically
073I think we're looking at anywhere between five to seven that would really be looking at taking this opportunity. Um so tonight wanted to throw that out there kind of see you know what the board uh thoughts would be on adding uh golf as a sport for next spring. Uh, with that being said, there are some details that obviously we do not have firmed up yet, like as far as like who would be coaching, transportation. Uh, we did look at some of the numbers from the past. Uh, when we co-opted with Greenwood, I believe that was a cost of around two to sorry, Neilsville. Thank you. When we co-opted with Neilville, I believe there was a cost of $2 to $3,000 for the season. And then we also looked at when we had golf on our
074own, which is what we are looking at for 2026. Um, and that cost was around $5,000. Uh, the last time we had golf on our own at this question, do you have is that just a one year? You sign up for one year at a time where you have to sign up for two years or so it's a one year at a time. So like every every year they ask like these are your current offerings. Are you still looking at offering all of these? And you know, usually it's yes. Um, what I will say though is I do think that there is a potential to to co-op with Neilville in this. I did reach out to their AD. They said, "Hey, we're extremely interested, but it's like 5 days away. So, it's not going to
075happen for next year." So, that is something that we could talk about in the in the future for sure. I don't know like WI with golf is there like so many we can have participate. So that is a great question. Yep. So on a so it's kind of like wrestling. So there's a team aspect but then there's also an individual aspect. So it takes five on a team. So your top five will be your scorers. Um but realistically, you know, individually you'll be able to compete at meets and also in the tournament. Um, I also think it's important to talk about like the girls golf season is in the fall. We are not looking at adding a girls golf season in the fall. We are looking at adding a boys golf season in the spring.
076And then a lot of smaller schools like us also allow girls to compete uh in the spring as well. So if we go to meets, girls will have the opportunity, you know, to be there to compete. The only difference is they would not have uh that opportunity to compete in the WIA tournament part of the of the season. Expenses would be and you kind of touched on a coach and then you'd have to find a coach. Um which I I believe there's in the four or five days that we've talked about it is there's already two or three names that have popped up. Um, but that would be an open position that you'd have to interview for and and apply for. Uh, transportation. Uh, if you deal with five, six, seven, six of them, we
077can use our own if need be. We have a golf course for some practices. Some practices. Um I would I think when we had it ourselves they would use that and then they would go down maybe twice a week three times to Neil. They might even go to Owen. Um Neil has a nice thing that what is it if you're under 18 it's free free for student. So um it would be it would be good that way. So they supply their bag all their clubs and all that's their own stuff. So we might have to supply shirt. Yeah. And maybe some balls. So does have a golf team? No. So in talking with Jenny as well, um they currently do not have any high schoolers who would be interested. Uh she did say that there
078is an eighth grader that could potentially be interested. Um who will be a freshman next year. Um, and we kind of said, "Hey, if this works out, like, you know, we can practice together and all that, but it wouldn't be like an official kind of co-op deal." If both boards agree, you could he could play golf JB, you know what I mean? Just be a JB player with maybe the other two or three that don't qualify in the top five. So, how about Grant? Are they with Neilsville? That is a great question. I'm not sure. I don't think so. I think it's just a Neilsville team. And I would I'm not I'm not speculating because I I don't I think this is a no-brainer. I think anytime a kid can be outside doing and this
079golf is a life sport and I encourage I think this is a good thing. I don't like golf, but I'll make a motion together. I've got a motion to approve the golf team. Second. And a second. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion [Music] carries. Now we can move on to other business. 6.1 principal report. Yeah. So, our elementary kind of started off here in April with a few field trips. Our fourth and fifth graders got to go to the Minnesota Youth Symphony in downtown Minneapolis. Um, I was part of that trip and just to hear the comments on a bus to see different vehicles and people walking down main down the downtown Minnesota area was kind of fun and enlightening to a lot of our young kids. Um, but once we got in the building
080and got to see all the musicians, pictures posted up and experience what a building like a symphony looks like, um, it was pretty awesome. It was a neat interactive. Kids were pounding their feet. Um, they were cheering on the different parts of the world they travel to and listen to the music. They did an awesome job of explaining the parts of the music that they should listen and look for. So, it was a field trip our band and choir teacher put together for the fourth and fifth graders. Um, it was a great time. A little long on a bus, but a great experience. So, um, 4K went to Lucille Tac. They got to see the singing zoologologist, which was looking at different animals with multimedia and different types of music. And then our third through
081fifth grade went to the Grand Theater to um see Step Africa, which is a performance um based off of African music and they got to see some storytelling and listen to songs and watch the different dance shows. So if you are a supporter of the Lep sale in the elementary, these were some of the field trips that um were covered by that. So thank you to all the families that support that. Uh, Miss Darkkey put on a family financial literacy night which was pretty cool. She brought in some real life dogs from a um, adoption center that kids could kind of see. They were able to um, adopt a stuffed toy and purchase items for their pet and then check out at the end. So, it was a very busy night full of families in
082the building. So, great thanks to her for putting on such a great thing. We had our Easter parade on the 16th for our kindergarteners to display their Easter bonnets and do the walk with the Easter parade. Um that was put on with Miss Minders and our four or our fifth our 5K um teachers, Miss Ninki and Miss Waffle. We had Earth Day this couple weeks ago where our um entire elementary created posters and decorated the elementary. We had dress up days. Um, our kids got to go with Mrs. Donovar's horiculture class and plant some flowers and get out to the greenhouse. They picked up sticks and helped pick up garbage around the school and go to the westside park, the purple park, and the cemetery to help with the community cleanup. Um, art, computer lab,
083everybody was putting on some sort of project for Earth Day. Um, this week is our book fair. It's a buy one get one. So if you haven't been there yet, so please stop by. It's a great event to help support the library. Tomorrow we have breakfast with buddies at 7:45. Um that should be that's a usually a fun-filled event that we have lots of families coming in to have breakfast with their their kiddos. And on Saturday, Souls is sponsoring a bike rodeo. Hopefully outside if this weather uh is great. Otherwise, it'll be in the high school uh gym. our middle school and high school. Mr. Leonard kind of highlighted on this already. We have 10 national qualifiers for FCCLA that will be traveling out of state. Um we have two national qualifiers for FBLA and
084Jonah Burks will also be going as a representative. We have a huge congratulations to two specific teachers. One, Mrs. Zodin was recognized as the Wisconsin FCCLA advisor of the year and Miss Sanki just was awarded yesterday the governor's financial literacy award recipient. So kudos to those two teachers that do some awesome stuff for our kids. Um just to highlight again too um the scholar athlete banquet happened. Rogan and Autumn are recognized. We had the academic scholar banquet. Rogan and Riker Littlefield were recognized. Um, we had Nathan Harmon come in as a speaker. He spoke to the Greenwood Middle School and High School students regarding um, your life speaks. So, character development and that your life has purpose and you have control over two things specifically, your attitude and your effort and you dictate what happens
085when you do those things. So, it was a great um, emotional kind of um, assembly. Had a lot of kids talking and thinking about things and came down to the speaker. So that was it was a great event. So Greenwood Middle School High School came over and saw the presentation with our middle school and high schoolers. So yeah, um FLA had the blood drive. Miss Darkkey had mock interviews in Greenwood and we had a power of egg field trip for our sophomores. That's all part of the ACP, so advanced uh career planning. And they actually went today to draw a blank on the name. career fair. The career fair. Thank you. Clark Electric. Yes. So, Clark Electric. Thank you. Um we had parent teacher conferences as well as inservice uh in the middle of April.
086We had trimester 2 awards. We wrapped up this last weekend with prom where um Summer Smith and Bryce Degan were crowned the prom king and queen. We had NHS inductions on Sunday night where 12 new members were inducted. Um, and we just found out that we had a solo and ensemble person going to be representing us here at State uh, UWSP. So, congrats Savannah. She's sitting over there trying to be quiet. And Miss Crowley came back from a field trip today for the Clover Belt Art Conference. And we had four students recognized as well today for their artwork. So, it's been a busy April with all the trips and banquetss going on, but you know, May's here and it's going to be even more busy. So, um, additionally, um, our middle school and high school
087staff have been working very hard on their power standards and learning targets and the curriculum piece. Um, so if you're interested in looking at these, they're under our curriculum tab uh, on our school website. Um and then a kind of big event that we're hosting on Friday, May 2nd. Uh we are hosting a home track meet in Spencer. Um just want to say thank you to everybody who's already reached out and willing to help out. It's awesome and it takes takes an army to put on event like this and I'm very excited to to offer this, you know, for our students and and our athletes. Uh additionally, thank you for Spencer uh school district as well. they have been absolutely amazing um in kind of helping us make this dream happen. So um in wrap
088up, one last thing, the educator of the year teachers have been selected by the student council on both ends of the building. Um I met with the middle school and high school student council. They discussed and chose the teacher um of the year for that end of the building as well as the support staff of the year. The elementary group that was selected to discuss the elementary teacher of the year was also selected. That was a fun um discussion to be had. So May 15th, mark your calendars at 8:15 in the morning. There will be an all school assembly um that those teachers and support staff will be recognized as well as our retiring teachers and teachers leaving in the building. So that's all we have folks. Thank you guys. Anything else? Good. 6.2 superintendence
089report. Anybody else want to leave? Uh, I would like to congratulate um our FCCLA, our FBA on outstanding performances at state and good luck to everyone that's heading to um nationals. Our FFA did a great job, great showing at state competition. Uh, major congratulations to Mrs. Odin and Mrs. Zarky on those accomplishments. um blessed to have them here u along with our other staff that continue to um shine and impress. Uh May 5th, we've talked about joint um joint board meeting high school gym here in Loyal at 7:30 will be livereamed. Uh congratulations to Savannah Stein uh for making it to the state solo ensemble on Saturday. Good luck to you. Um HRS or HSR has been in and has surveyed the area of the school on phase one. Um they were here for many
090days taking care of that. Um fire hydrant out. So the city is looking to replace three fire hydrants around here. We got one here, one over by the um playground, and then one out in front of the high school. Um they went to turn on uh the water for uh Westside Park um at an instantly like bubbling up within a few seconds. So they are pushing that up to tomorrow, that one. Um, and what we talked about was possibly boring a hole out underneath the driveway and parking lot and going out to the concession stand. So, we had water out there. Um, got a bill back that or estimate I should say that it would be extremely expensive, 14 grand. Um, so we are holding off. They will put they will install this tomorrow and
091they will have it so it's ready to go to add on whatever we need in the future. Um so you will see work you will see you will see cones and and things over there and then they are installing it tomorrow. So and then the other two will be done um this summer. uh concession stand outside concession stand. Um I buil RZ builders and um constru our construction class have have worked on this and have framed it up. Um they're waiting for metal um to get here and we are working with um our electrician to get that moving. Um, we'll continue working on this to get it enclosed at least here. Are we sheeting that before we put the tent on cuz we're insulating that building, right? So, we got to sheet it and then
092put So, is the OSB ordered? I believe so. I will check on that. So, and I was just I was reading your building and grounds committee meeting minutes and uh the committee reviewed the concrete bill and recommends having administrator talk to the contractor. We're in the middle of that. All right. Because something else came. It was a little different. So, we're going to sit down, Brad and I will sit down with him and go over and make sure where we're at with. Okay. And I don't believe that the county has seen the holding tank permit yet. Okay. So, we'll be okay. [Music] Uh so um softball co-op is also needing to be approved. Uh what we've had in the past is if there has not been any issues with that co-op, no problems or anything
093like that, uh the board has said just continue to roll it over. Um I have not had any negative or anything back to me. Neither have I. And Greenwood has not had anything. Um, so I would say we continue with that co-op. So when's that got to be in by? Um, tomorrow. Oh, it does. Yes. Right on the wall. But it's not on our agenda, is it? Roll over. It just rolls over what the board said. We went we don't need it. I think the last time we talked about it um was continue just to continue if if problems come up then we will address it and then we'll look at it bring bring it back to the board if not continue rolling it over. So they've been blocked for quite some time this year
094fourth year unless you okay with it. I'm fine with it. All right. Thank you. Uh last thing, um child care have been working on that. Working on numbers, uh working on we looked at Grant and we looked at Spencer, trying to figure that out. Um meeting with some individuals tomorrow on where we're at. We kind of got a a quantity of numbers looking at possibly maybe a summer and then a and then a school year. So doesn't fall on deaf ears. We are working on it and trying to figure out and trying to do placement for classroom or a room for it and things like that. So wheels are in motion. Seem like they spin a little bit sometimes, but they are in motion and and working on it. Can I guarantee you anything for
095this summer or this fall? I cannot guarantee you, but we're working on trying to get something situated. I've had people ask, Mr. Leonard, um, about if it's just school age kids or is it are we looking at potentially like infants and are you talking when? Either or. Either or. Yeah, that that we've looked at. We're looking at from 8 weeks, 6 weeks to three or whatever up to four. So that that is something that we are working on. Um space is going to be a driver on this. So um and it's what I we'll talk about tomorrow or when I meet with those those individuals. So, we do have a number of individuals in our building that got things rolling over at Little Angels. So, those are our I'm using as a advisor and helping
096try to mold something here. So, I was going to you said that you may know that it's not necessarily a money maker. It's not a money maker, but it's trying to keep get the children. Very good point. Very good point. You can talk. Yeah. So, it is it it you're going to probably lose money on it. I I talked to Spencer. They they lose money on it because it's dealing with staff. Um and it depends on how how your staff is. If you have full-time benefits, two or three that that's going to add up. I think Graten um has one director, one full-time, and then they they spot check. They have what am I saying? Not spot check, part-timers that are 29 and a half hours. And I think they get away with a little
097bit better, but it's not going to make you money. It will probably lose money. But the key is the service you offer is the service and then getting that child in the building because if the child gets in the building, the tendency to have them stay through school age to high school is is big is big. And then what people forget is that's 11,300 once they're here and in 5K. So I think even for um staff if we're looking to recruit staff and they're moving to the area or whatever the case may be when we have the childcare facility that's open that can potentially take on their little children before and after school. So I think that's initiated that's what got the talk or the thinking initiated is having a staff only daycare. Then Little
098Angel was closed. So, we've been working on that. Um, at our superintendent conference last week, more and more schools are looking in and doing this. Bless you. Um, up north especially uh just because of it's it's a shortage and it's a need. So, that's I just wanted to add that. Thank you. Thanks for reminding me. That is all I have. 6.3 setting dates. Now you 28th May 28th for full board. Oh, I got one thing real quick. Back up. All right. Beep beep beep. Staff appreciation is next week. Did you say anything about it or No, I did not. All right. Sorry if I didn't hear you. I was listening. Um, so we have uh five days that um uh Mrs. K and Mrs. Hamlin and Mrs. Msori or No, Mrs. Msori. All right. Oh,
099sorry. Our admin team and counselor have worked together. Um, Monday would be a coffee bar. Tuesday we have a food truck that we will um buy lunch for the staff. Wednesday is a water bar. I was going to say beverage. Yeah. Um Thursday is a popcorn bar. Friday, red and gold themed snacks. Um next week, Tuesday and Thursday is complimentary massages. Um so just very appreciative of the staff that we have. Um I think uh I don't think I know they are the reason why we have such a great school. So, and that's why our students are the way they are there. Meetings May 28 full board be ashamed to go against our policy. God just nothing going on back down in that end, right? End of May. Well, Monday Monday, but we this would
100be the memorial. Let's put it down. Mhm. You got May 5th. I cannot do baseball May 5th. I've had a joint board meeting. Yeah. 7:30. I guess that's going to be me. He asked if I could do baseball on Monday. I can't. I have a joint board meeting. Well, it should be over before 10:30, though. Um, I would say we should tech meeting. Sooner is better cuz I got to have stuff planned before school's out. Okay. Any time work for you? Any day that's not a Tuesday or Friday? Okay. Try next week. What time? What day? You said not Tuesday. Not Tuesday or Fridays. Okay. Thursday. My more flexible days. Thursday. Thursday. Thursday. What time? That would be a That would be Yes. I have softball concession stand pending weather. The last two have been
101cancelled at 4:30, but I have to do right after school. 3:30. 3:30. That should work. Yeah, that'll work. May 8th. I'm thinking we need a building grounds. How far they come with that phase? I I don't know. I just know they were out here surveying everything. And you want to have one in miday 14thish? No. First rainy day. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Are you on it now? Yeah. Okay. Whatever works. Does mornings work? We'll make it work. Just even if it's early morning. Yep. That would figure it out. Before 9. No, I was thinking like 7:30 or so. 9. Yeah. Was it 9:58? All right. Can I just work with Let's just kind of keep track and see what's what the weather looks like. All right. Are we going to have to have Brad in one?
102Yep. From right now. See, we got that done. So, I think we're good. Okay. 6.4 public comments or clarification on any new business items. Um, we didn't never brought anything up about the strategic plan. Okay. Where is that with the team right now? We have our um from the last task force money meeting we went and have made those some of those changes. It is with um Nexus. I do believe they are in the process of getting that switched and getting it back to us. Eat team will meet here I believe next week to get this finalized. So May is what we're looking at for them to come in. And did they find presenters because that was one of the questions that night? Yes, we did. Did they? Okay, good. I don't know. They never
103told me anything. So I was going to say we turned all our slips in and when we walked out the meeting, I had no idea. All right. All right. Good. Okay. Any other clarifications on new business items? All right, with that I thank everybody for coming. We want to take a fivem minute recess and then we'll reconvene reconvene.