001Well, I'm wrong. >> The cell towers told me it's six o'clock. So, I will call the MS MPSD meeting and welcome you all here. Would you please rise for the pledge? I pledge 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. >> Thank you. And we will get to our agenda. um some good things tonight and hopefully we'll make some good decisions and get out of here at a good time. So, uh first of all, we'll open up the public input. I I have a a request from Barb. >> I'm sorry. >> Oh, you may. >> Sorry. Yes. Go ahead with the roll. >> I should probably look at that once in a while. >>
002Christopher Ael >> here. >> David Bowman >> here. >> Biff Hansen >> here. >> Dan Holen >> here. Mary Wolfy Johnson >> present, >> Keith Shaw >> here, >> and Carrie Tra >> here. >> Thank you. >> Now we'll open up public input. And Barb, come on up. >> Propos 825 Wilson Street, NA. Your MPS community outreach and engagement has vital ranking among public and student needs. They want and need communication that's honest, truthful, and transparent. Those key components build trust. Open, honest communication brings more people to the table. It grows as they see and hear the product of a fruition. You have devised a great set of goals that encompasses all. The implementation will take patience, perseverance, and mindset checks. You have to be a team player. Remember today, everyone's Attitude matters. A proactive
003versus reactive response. I emphasize pro because your response should always be professional. A buy in by all all the students engaged all the time and productive. The synergy seems to be there in m in the MSD plan of rocks. On another education note, during a picture, drawing a picture is a basic fundamental but very informative way of illustrating comprehension, espe especially most endearing when students when working with diverse population of students. It opens the door to learning, questioning, understanding, deeper discussion, also writing prompts with the use of fine motor skills. It is all-encompassing. It is a brain train. Your school forest director did a excellent job of presenting this in her last visit with their students when she gave her presentation last week. Thanks for all the work in putting these plans of change together
004and getting all the players to the table, students and staff and the general public. engaging community is so vital. So they realize that their participation is also part of the driving force going forward with the insurance with with the act I'm getting all mixed up already. >> Okay. >> With the action of act 20 coming that ensures that all students will be reading at their personal level. all students engaged and learning all the time to be responsible functioning community members. Thanks again for all you do. Remember, true inclusion equals true community. Thank you. >> Thank you, Barb. >> I have no other requests. So, we will close public input at this time and move on to our agenda and come up with the consent agenda. It is listed >> on your agenda. Would anybody like
005anything pulled for discussion? and >> uh B payment of vouchers. >> B payment of vouchers. B. >> Okay. Anything else from anybody? P >> personnel. C. Anything else? P. >> Uh D one under D is policies number one. policies policy uh 615201. Thanks for the first which is um waiver of school fees or fines. >> Okay. Anything else from anybody on the consent agenda? >> All right then. Uh let us do it this way. Um well let's let's do the ones we pulled first and then we'll vote on the >> other ones. So uh payment of vouchers an >> yes I just in educational learning just wondering what the on page one of the vouchers uh there's quite a few for H Hotton Mifflin Lingo Learning and Sabbath Learning. Um are those part of the
006new curriculum? Are those textbooks? >> I can speak to that. Um those are all the vendors for our new curriculum adoption. So, Savas is our social studies at both the middle school and high school. Okay. >> HMR is our ELA at middle school and high school. And Lingo is our world language at middle school and high school. >> Okay, >> that was it. That's the question. >> That's it. >> Okay. Um, we did pull that. So, do I have a motion to um approve it? >> I make a motion. We >> We have a motion. Do I have a second? >> David with a second. Any other discussion? >> Hearing seeing none. All those in favor say I. I. >> Post say nay. That one is okay. Personnel report, Keith. >> Yeah, thank you. This
007pretty much goes along with the with the director's report that's later in the minutes, but I have a a couple of quick questions. I I still continually I see throughout the course of the year custodial retirees or resignations and then positions posted for custodial. continue to see the the pair professionals and special education, which we talked about a little bit, but I guess to to our human resource director now, is there a plan? Is there is there an action that we can look forward to to start seeing are we comparable with custodial pay in in our conference? Are we comparable with par profofessional pay in our conference, in our territory, in our in our county? Um, back in the old days, very seldom did we lose a custodian. I mean, they once they were in
008our buildings, but they work hard and now we're losing more and more all the time, not from retirement, but from resignation. So, are we comparable? I guess. >> Yeah. So, the answer um is we're working on that. Um, so obviously coming on July 1st, my priority has been just getting our position filled. Right now, we're at Lee and I have been talking a lot about that though with custodial and our support what we we classify as our support staff. So that would be clerical, it would be pair professionals, it would be all of our non um professional or certified staff. Um so Lee and I've already started looking around CISA 5 has a data hub that they do some comparables. Uh Bayer does some analytics with that. So Lee and I are starting to compile
009that and look at that piece so we can see where we land and what we can do. One of my big rocks is retention that you know coming up. So that's a big piece of it is are we comparable? Um and if our pay is comparable then then my thought is then what else are we doing? What else can we do to retain people? So, it is something that's on our radar and we're working on um as after we get through the initial hiring, it'll be more >> still good. >> Nothing. That's it. Thank you. Thanks for taking a look at that. >> And just as a note, um um some of you may have got a text message or an email message that kind of had to do with this issue. Um, and I
010talked to Lee about it at our meeting and we've discussed that too that maybe it's time to do a study to say, are we still in the ballpark? Um, this way and and Stacy will lead on that. >> It's a good catch. >> I would make the suggestion to also look at other positions that are not part of school. >> Correct. >> Because I know in the past people were helping kids sign up for jobs that were getting paid more to start than what they were getting as a pair professional. So, >> so we did participate in this spring Progress Lakes Shore does >> okay >> one in our area which is made up of mostly private but the public institutions would be like the city, the county and us I'm assuming and with that
011we get back the data and Stacy actually just sent it to me today and I did look for that specifically. It's hard to drill down, but I'm wondering if they have more information than what is actually on the report that we could find. But yeah, to definitely bring in the private as well um to uh you know, because it's not just we're not just competing obviously against other districts, right? >> Yeah. >> And one of the things I want to look at with that is total package, right? Like the work condition, what are the hours, all those pieces, what the retirement system? So I want to look at total package and all those ideas with compensation because again, what's it going to take for people to stay? So, excellent. >> Definitely something we're working on.
012>> Do you And can you repeat which ones specifically are you going to be looking at? >> My So, we have what we call um professional staff, which are like our teachers, anybody with a DPI, teaching license, and then we have support staff, which include like clerical, custodial, maintenance, pair of professionals. So, more of like our hourly employees. They're all grouped in there. So, we'll look at all those. >> Anything else on this part? Keith, did you have anything else? >> No. Thank you. Can I have a motion and a second to approve the um personnel? >> Absolutely. >> Do I have a second? >> Second, >> David. Uh any other discussion hearing? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. I. >> Post say nay. And we will move on to that
013passes. We'll move on to the D policies forwarded. Chris, you're up. >> Yeah. This is number uh 6152.01. Um >> waving of fees. waiver of school fees or fines. And I just would like to understand exactly what fees we're referring to here. >> Oh, these are school fees. So, fees for uh you know, we we have a a fee just to basically register for materials. So, like there's material fees um >> certain art classes. Well, I I know we have some very specialized fees for specific classes or specific extracurriculars, >> but then we we also like at the elementary level. Well, when I was there, we had a $10 >> fee for every student. >> Yes. >> And that's something I personally can't support because I provide >> a free and fair education to kids.
014So, if you walk in the door, we don't charge you 10 bucks. If you're doing something special outside of our normal day, that I can support. I really can't support fees for just a kid who just comes to school and goes to school and sticks to the regular as established the the curriculum we established basically. >> Yeah. The MPSD instituted student fees back in the very early 2000s when there was a budget uh issue and they turned to some revenue sources. Um, I would say that over the years they've been kept very flat and actually uh our team at the high school reduced or got rid of several fees that were participation type fees for uh things outside of athletics, more curricular things. But the fact is is yes, we as a district currently uh
015do institute fee structure across the board. But if it's something that this board is interested in having a conversation, but obviously it's um um something that we would have to consider for next year since all these things are in play for this year already. But uh if the board's pleasure is to have a conversation about that, we certainly could. >> Sure. >> We can run some numbers on what we actually get for revenue on that and all those things. We can put a report together and we'll bring it through finance and facilities. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. So this policy specifically is a waiver of yes of fees. >> Are you um questioning the policy or a bigger conversation about >> uh it is my view that as a parent of an elementary school child
016who's just going to school from the time the day starts to the time the day ends. If you send him home a note that I need to pay a $10 fee, I don't believe I even need a waiver to excuse not paying that because I don't know what that is for. That's >> Oh, yeah. You can't have an anonymous fee. >> But Lee, you're talking about looking at registration fees and you're talking about a standalone $10 fee or you talking about registration? I'm not sure what language is used for it, but every student every year in the elementary schools pays a fee to be in the elementary school, even if they're not doing anything extra special. >> Could we do this looked at I think it'd be good to find out how much every year
017comes in for this and then what it's used for. Um, is it still necessary to do after they implemented it years ago? Do we still need to do this? Um, I I like I mean this is the waiver so you don't have to pay it which is which is good but but I think we still need to have that discussion on why why are we asking anybody for this? Is it is it a necessary $10? >> Here's my question. >> You're you're knee deep in this right now >> and you probably have some kids that need their fees waved. >> Yes. >> And for the board board to hold that up for a few weeks is not a good idea right now. >> Yeah. So, I I would suggest we pass this tonight and then
018circle back to that conversation. >> I would agree with that. >> Oh, yeah. I don't think you intend to hold it up. >> I don't intend to hold it up. >> I mean, it is I mean, it seems like it's a brand new policy. Seems to be sensitive to, you know, not trying to not try to lay it on, you know. So, I I mean, I would I would move that we >> Okay. um pass this policy along with the the two others. >> Okay. I have a motion to to pass this waiver. Do I have a second on this? Keith, what's a second as the part of the discussion? Could I ask Nate just to put some information together on that for the board so we can >> see how much it is and
019where it goes, what it's being used for. >> Start with the finance subcommittee. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Any other discussion on this? Hearing see none. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppos say nay. >> Nay. From Mr. Ael. Did you have any other policy in that group, Chris? >> No, that was the only one I had asked for, sir. Thank you. >> So, we passed B, C, and D. Can we go back and can can I get a motion to do A and E. So, that takes care of our um consent agenda. I have one from Mson. Do >> I have a second? >> Second. >> Mr. Able with a second. Any discussion on any of those other things? Hearing say none. All those in favor say I. >> I. Say
020nay. And that passes. And we'll move on to the report from the super. >> Thank you. >> Good evening everyone. Um, I'd like to start uh this evening um with a special recognition for some folks who have put a lot of time and effort uh into volunteering to run a school basically uh for for the last several years. As everyone well knows, McKinley Academy is was charter school which meant that it had its own governing board. and with the district's um essentially assumption of um of that program into our umbrella as a district. Um that board is is is now completed with their service. And so we wanted to take a moment out of tonight's meeting uh to show our gratitude for those folks um who are with us here tonight. So, I'm going to
021invite uh principal over uh at the Stangle Building, Stephanie Botch, to come up uh and uh take over here. >> Grab everything. We got you guys gifts, too. >> A little Santa. >> So, um we have certificates as well. We just want to say thank you for all the work. I've only been working with you for a short amount of time, but I think we can all agree spent very active amount of time, probably the most work we've ever done. um where you guys are leaving today a great spot. Your legacy is going to live on your kids and future. So, thank you very much and thank you for everything that you've done and your commitment for everything that you've and working with me everything that you've shown me as well. So, thank you you
022guys. have our president come up here first. >> Yeah, sure. >> Why don't we have you just stand over here and we'll do a live because we're going to do a picture. President wrong names. I'll get it to him later. >> We can swap later. >> They're treasurer. >> You know, I just want to point out that Maria's one of the founding mothers of Finley School, >> been on on the board ever since the beginning of the creation. [Applause] Been through everything. >> Thank you. Lisa. Lisa has been on the board for a very long time as well. >> Not nearly as long on >> what's >> not nearly as long as >> I think I've been through four principles. doesn't mean anything else works at >> yeah so thank you so much >> on
023behalf of the board and the school district. Thank you for your service and the countless hours that you put in volunteering uh to serve your community and our kids. Um and we would like to uh take a picture of you to commemorate. In fact, maybe even just right where you are, we could do because there's art in the background. >> But Stephanie, why don't you go ahead? Okay. >> City. >> Okay. Wonderful. Thank you. >> Thanks again. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Just a note on the board. Um Carrie and I were at a meeting and I was so impressed with the McKinley school board and how focused they were on kids >> and and kids that that uh wanted to learn in different ways. And um I am assured that that will continue
024under the new arrangement. But but that's one of the nice things about McKinley or Stangle or whatever we're going to call it. Um it's a place where you can learn if you learn differently. And uh that board really supported those kids over the years and and I truly appreciated that hearing those voices during those meetings. So thank you. Thanks, Mr. Hansen. Yes. Um, just to continue, I'd also like to um spend just a moment thanking um our entire leadership team at the district um level uh for their hard work and commitment here over the summer months um to do really a whole lot. Um we had transition of two new directors. Um we had numerous days of professional development for our principles and staff members in the district. And so, uh, to the entire director
025team and all the building leaders, uh, who've done a great job this summer of committing to, um, a culture of excellence and continuous improvement and looking at where we are and where we want to be and um, I just can't say enough thanks and I am very very proud uh, to be part of this team. So, thank you. Um speak speaking of culture of excellence, it's something that um we're very excited about. We spent a couple days with our building principles um talking about culture of excellence, what it looks like. We have eight pillars and essentially it's a shared commitment to high expectations, continuous improvement, and collective success for every student is basically how I would boil that down. Um, I have had the opportunity to talk with our principles about this, our varsity head
026coaches. Um, I am going to be visiting our custodial and maintenance staff tomorrow. We've talked um with all of our group here at central office. I'll be meeting with the IT team on Thursday and department chairs on Monday. um essentially to um talk a little bit about this in terms of our vision for it and how we want to use it to accomplish our strategic vision that this board has passed earlier this year. Um so more to come on that. Uh another thing of note, um I included a memo uh in your packet in regards to a chain of communications. Um, I think for years the district sort of had this as a philosophy, but I don't think it was really ever written out essentially in protocol so that we can all follow it. Uh,
027but essentially what the goal of this communication and and memo will do for really everyone in the district is provide um our folks with a process for when they have problems or concerns. And really what this uh does this protocol does is it empowers the problem solving to take place at the level closest to the situation as possible. So it just basically clearly lays out that if somebody has a concern with something that's happening in the classroom, they should really talk to the teacher first. If they talk to the teacher and they're not satisfied with the result, then they can go to a building administrator. um if there's still an issue, they can then bring it up with an appropriate director or at this level uh depending on what the issue is uh and then
028finally coming to the superintendent uh and then the board. So, um just so that you're aware that I've sent this out and we're having conversations about it. Each principal is going to talk with their staff uh about that. Um, I'll skip a couple of these things, but I did want to mention that um, I had the opportunity to have coffee and conversation with approximately 15 citizens uh, to Friday. We were at Fridays. We were at Jen's Java last month. Uh, we're sort of just doing a little uh, tip tip our toes in the water, so to speak, to see how that all went. Uh, we decided, uh, that we're going to move forward and do this once a month to engage our community. Uh this next month uh in August here we're going to be
029at the Harmony Cafe uh uh at 9:00 am right we do 9 am right 9:00 am on the 22nd Friday the 22nd and Harmony Cafe if everybody's interested in coming in >> having a cup of coffee and talking about anything you want uh that's relevant to the Manito public school district. Uh we also had a uh field groundbreaking to celebrate uh that happened this past month. Uh on July 30th we uh broke ground at the baseball field. Um Mr. Schwarz tells me that they're busy and they're removing a lot of stuff over there. Uh I was there for a picture the other day from a donation that was made to the field, a significant donation. Um and I was surprised to see how much they actually had completed since we were there with the shovels.
030So that was good. And um lastly, I would just point out that um I'm very grateful to have the opportunity to participate in the W, the first year superintendent program. Um it's really designed to help someone that's new in this job acclimate themselves in a way that uh is proactive. In other words, they help you see the road ahead of you, which when you haven't done the job, like me, except for in an interim capacity. Uh there's things that I don't know, uh lots of them. So, um I'm very grateful for this opportunity. It's a series of 24 workshops. I gave you all the links of all the things that I'm going to get to learn. Uh and if you have ever have questions about any of these things, um what's really great is that
031most of these sessions are not in person. They're virtual and they're like hour and a half long sessions. So, for example, I have one tomorrow morning. Um, and it's also by topic, right? So, if I have something that um that I can't get to, they they record these and house these so that I can review them when I So, it's just a great program. I'm very excited about the quality of uh leadership involved in this. Kathy Cook from Sussex Hamilton who served a very long time and was superintendent of the year in 2019 from Sussex Hamilton was uh 2018 actually uh is involved and she actually ironically enough was one of my professors at Cardinal Stretch. So um it's it's amazing after 10 or 11 years she kind of uses some of the same phrasing.
032I caught her on a couple of those. So um so I'd be happy to answer any questions that you have about my report. Any questions for the super >> hearing? Seeing none. Uh, and we got the director's report. Any added information on that? Anybody need anything to find, explain? >> We're good. >> Chris, >> I just want to say that we're not asking questions on either of these reports because you guys are so comprehensive. No, >> so thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. and >> Mr. Just to capitalize. >> Yeah, the director report. Thank you again as as Chris said are very well stated and it's clear to understand what's been going on how busy everything is. But you look at our business the report from the business department does does a very nice
033job. We gave a excellent report to the finance committee, but in this report it it specifies a little bit more where our money of that $14 million is going to go go to and how it's going to be disseminated. So, it's very well just um articulated here is it is well presented, but if you have any questions, please get a hold of the business department. They'll answer your questions, but thank you for putting all this together and in terminology that people like I can understand. It's good. >> Happy to do Yeah. >> Anything else on the director's report? >> You saying none unfinished business? I don't believe we have any. >> Mr. I forgot to mention one thing. Okay. Tonight you all got copies of the MPSD back to basics. This is something that um
034our team and Lori and bunch of others and she could probably name who all helps with this, but it's a tremendous amount of work each year u compiling all of this information really. I mean this is a publication that affects every single student in our district and we all also know that every single student in our district goes to one of our 10 schools. So all in one place just a very very good job and we really appreciate uh the time and effort put in putting in to communicate with our families about the upcoming school year. So thanks Lori and Katie Emmed and Ruby whoever the whole group that worked on that appreciate it very much. >> Looks really good. >> Anything else? Then we will move on to committee reports. Starting with curriculum, Mr.
035Bulman. >> Um we had a a presentation from the school forest. Uh Kelly Vorin and if you've never been to our school forest, you are missing out. Uh they are excited. They the multiplicity of groups that were using it over the course of the year, they're keeping track now and it's getting utilized a lot. Um which is is great to know. Kids are there. They're back with the sixth grade camping experience. Next year they're going to expand it to two nights again and um my kids went through that and that's one of the highlights that they remember to this day. It's a great thing. They learn together. They create their own questions while they're learning and that is an affective moment that will help them remember it. Um seventh grade students came out to do
036maple syrup. The high school helped finish building the boardwalk over a swamp area that is now a swamp because the ash trees are all dead. >> Yeah. >> So, they're not transpiring the water out. So, they do affect the environment. Okay. Um, we did receive a sustain our Great Lakes grant which treated 90 acres of the school forest with herbicide to get rid of some invasive species. Um, so everything that they did was grant funded and they also had a group coming in to look at the ashtree problem. They have 685 marked so far which will have to come down and that's only half of the marking area. 685. So they're going to be looking for grants and ways to pay for that too. And I think our maintenance teams have also been out to
037help with that. um innovative pathways for success, the alternative programming. Um Stephanie came in and was talking about the the new the new forward movement of what McKinley is becoming and the opportunities there for kids that need that extra bit is is great. Um we're working on community partnerships with Crossfire Ranch, um NAMI, Lighthouse Recovery, Rogers Behavioral Health, United Way, LTC, and WGB. They've got a lot of community connections that are really going to help us out. Um the Lee already talked about some of the professional development that's been going on and um hearing the word on the street, that's not the overview vision. people are excited about it that are the people who are receiving some of that training now and I look forward to what's going to happen after that. Um, and we
038are going to continue working with CISA 7. They give us so much support in ways that it would just be virtually impossible for us to do on our own. Um they have resources for school psychologists, title one support, um network participation for curriculum directors and the the bang for the buck on that thing is huge. So CISA7 is going to be part of us for we're going to be a part of them. >> Yeah, they're going to be part of us. Yeah, >> that's what we got. >> Any questions for Mr. Bowman? >> When are they going to go back to four nights? I don't think that's going to happen. >> Way back in the day. >> Oh, yeah. Went out on Monday and came home on Friday. Four nights. Our parents loved it because
039we were gone. >> Yeah. >> I think the same. >> But, you know, I I I bring this up all the the time. We talk about what we want kids to know and to do. And when they have a feeling attached to what they know and they do, they remember it forever. And I think that's one of the powerful learning things that happens out there. >> Yeah. We were talking on the in the committee meeting about it, how if if it doesn't exactly quote unquote change lives, it comes pretty close >> in some cases. I mean, people >> look back on that as a you know, maybe as strongly as they look back on their graduation from Lean. >> Very cool. >> Nature is important. >> Mr. Tras. >> Yes. personal >> uh we had
040um I think this is the first time we met with Stacy >> and wow what a tough job she has. I mean you know the first question I I had was I had was like god Stacy it's August already and we still have a whole big line of of positions to fill. >> Yes. And um you know I didn't kind of let into why we have a teacher shortage in Wisconsin but but we have a teacher shortage in Wisconsin especially in special ed uh in the in the in the STEM in the STEM fields etc etc. So it's it's I know that um she's got you know all sorts of connections etc and all sorts of people that she's working with and we do have 13 teaching openings four par profofessional and um nine positions
041filled since the last board meeting which honestly I mean this is you know the woman should get two weeks off after the race. So um anyway um the sense was that boy everything that could be done is being done um including and if you looked at the if you looked at the the um the report um on the second on the second page >> there's Jessica Medico who's going to teach who's teaching math for who's from the Philippines. And I'm I'm I'm I'm truly hoping that um her husband her husband moved here as well, right? >> That's a different employee that came >> Oh, this is a different employ. >> So, this one on tonight's board report is a new employee that will be coming over. >> Yeah. >> So, we are husband. >> I
042mean, there's there's no boundaries. Um I you know I I I I worry a little about ICE but nevertheless I think it's uh um it it the the the experience we've had uh on hiring teachers from out of out of out of the country has been very very positive which leads us to the the the um the agency that we're we need to vote on a contract for. Um so um yeah we we we we also talked about the evaluation of the superintendent etc etc which we've already kind of dealt with in in in some ways with our with our kind of seminar but so >> um but I'll I'll I'll um I'll move because the board approved the the teaching in the USA new partnership school district agreement. Um, that's this which from my
043point of view is pretty clear. It's not very it's not very complicated. They handle all the hard stuff like you know the the visas and the and the the resettlement and the everything. And um it's a bit it's a bit pricey the first year, but it it really doesn't it really doesn't come too much uh too much out of us. I think >> so. We're moving that. >> So, I'm moving. >> Okay. Do I have a second? We approve this contract. >> Second with David and then maybe can we go Stacy, can you explain a little bit with the fee and that kind of stuff discuss? >> So, Mike Nel uh last year had brought to you a couple other staffing agencies like is another one that looks locally in the United States for staffing.
044We've been working with them throughout the year trying to find folks as well. Um there was a different program called Cultural Vistas last year that we worked with to bring a teacher over that's at Wilson. her husband is now employed with us as well at um as a custodian at Madison. Um so this is just another visa uh support program. So what they really do is they work with finding a great candidate. Um it's Stephanie actually interviewed the candidate. She got to meet the candidate. We got to decide if we wanted to move forward with this candidate. Um and then this company really helps um navigate the visa process and finds a visa sponsor. So we're not the visa sponsor, somebody else is. Uh there's certain requirements with like insurance and things. So they take
045care of all the insurance pieces for this. So we're not paying all the benefits insurance that we normally would. So we pay a little bit of a fee, but we have offset costs that way as well. Um they come on a oneyear visa. They can extend that out to three or five years. So our person who came last year has already extended her visa. My goal would be that these folks all want to stay five years and we have um some consistency there. Uh but they really help us to find a quality candidate. I mean this person has a masters in math. Uh last year at the Stangle building we had a elevate K12 which was a computer taught teacher teaching kids. So to me this is a really viable option uh for people that
046want to be here, want to work. Um so that's kind of how the program works. >> Okay, questions. >> Yes, Chris. Looking at exhibit B, it says uh general K12 teachers 20% of their salary for years 1 through three. Yep. >> And then 15 for years four and five. >> Y >> now that's on top of what we pay them or that comes out of what we're paying them. >> So we pay them their salary and then we pay that percentage fee to the company. >> So in other words, we're paying an extra 20%. >> Correct. But we're not paying all the insurance either. >> That's right. >> They don't get the same insurance as all our other employees. >> When you come over from out of country, there's certain insurance parameters they have. So
047the company covers the insurance. So teach in the USA care, you mean? >> Yep. So they work with them to get the insurance. So we will not have insurance costs for those people. >> Okay. Second question. um the H-1B visa participating partner rate service fee per teacher, the 5,000 procurement and the 2 and a half thousand for mentorship professional development. Is that us? That's again uh B. >> Let me pull it up quick and see. So this person is coming on a J1 visa. Um >> okay, let me check. >> So it's just a different visa type. J1 or A1. >> No, I'm asking who pays it. Yeah. >> I apologize. I don't have my copy here with me. >> Okay. >> Up. >> I think we do. >> Well, if it's consistent with the
048other one. Yeah, we would. >> The other one we do. I know. >> Okay. >> Sorry. What Chris part >> that's for H1B visa. It says procurement, placement, and support is 5,000. Mentorship and professional development is two and a half grand per quarter. Yeah, I think >> I'm >> What page are you on? >> That is on the last page, right? >> That is page mine saying page 12. >> Yeah, page 12. >> Exhibit B. >> Yep. So, this that's H1B. We're on the J1 visa. >> So, we're at the top. >> So, we won't be doing any H1Bs. >> No, J1 visa. >> All right. >> We're just doing J1. Yeah. >> Yep. >> Yeah. >> Anything else, Chris? Well, >> any other questions? >> No other questions. >> Okay. Ann, did you have
049a question? >> Anybody else? >> I think Stacy said, you know, we we kind of checked it out in terms of of pricing and um you know, you you just can't you can't do this business just out of your own office. I mean, it really requires people that are professional in it. and um as far as assuming the responsibilities and make and and and as far as a a very clear contract. >> Um they probably they probably won the race on that and I think they probably came in at a at a lower fee rate than than other. >> And I think you have to look at the cost, right? We're paying some fees and for cost, but what are we getting? we're getting a highly certified professional that will be here in front of
050children able to support them instead of having to pay for a, you know, a good chunk of money for a computer, you know, a person teaching virtually to our kids, which we know isn't the best instruction. So, again, there, you know, there's some trade-offs in this contract with what we pay, what they pay. It uh reduces over time. Um, again, we're looking locally as well, but um, you know, when we think about what do we need to do, what's best for kids and and giving kids opportunities. We have to get the best teachers in front of kids. >> Okay. Mr. Rabel. >> Yeah. Uh, I didn't notice this in there. I apologize. Is this an annual contract with us? If we don't like it after one year, can we get out of this? >> Correct.
051And if like something were to happen in the middle of the year that this person decides it's not for them, they want to go home, we're not in it for all the money. We only pay for what we use. >> Okay. All right. Because I I'm still a little scared of a business that gives us a post office box and I think anybody who's ordered anything mail order knows why I'm scared. >> Y >> So as long as we can get out of this. >> Nope. They work they Yeah, it's all on what we use. >> Okay. >> Any other discussion on this? >> I guess to your your question this we're approving this and if we're going to do it an annual basis and we do decide to do the J1, we probably want
052to have a discussion on that >> to your point on the fees. >> Okay. Just because we're not right now. >> Yeah. >> Or the H1B. Sorry. Yes. If we have an H1B, do you mean same? >> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. >> I would agree with that. >> All right. Anything else? All those in favor of entering into an agreement say I. >> I. >> Oppos say nay. >> And it passes. >> Mr. TR. >> All right. The evaluation. Another matter of business here is uh from personnel and policy is the superintendent evaluation. I think we all know that we're using the Rosby evaluation. I we get we get a freebie on that, right? >> Um yeah, I believe so. >> Yeah, we get a freebie on that. Yeah. Otherwise, it's >> Yes. >> It's a
053it's a bit of money. Yeah. Uh and all all I'm all all the committee uh approved of and is bringing forth to the board is the schedule um the calendar for the the processes of doing the evaluation. Uh you got that on appendix A. the the the whole process goes into goes into action October the 1st and ends with the you know the first evaluation uh at December 30th and uh that that provides us with the information we need uh to you know make an informed decision on on by January 21st on renewal. I mean, I'm not anticipating that it's going to be a tough one, but um nevertheless, it it it kind of it's it's all on schedule and it it it fits all the all the needs that we need. And then the
054second the second part ends on June 30th. So, this is, you know, we're only involved in it somewhere in the middle here. Um >> board president. Yeah. October 29th. Yeah. >> So, is there a motion motion to accept the the schedule here on this? >> So, moved. >> Are you taking are you taking both the evaluation and the and the dates? Are you taking them >> motion? >> It's the rough draft the rough draft of the dates. There may be tweaks here and there because it's process for so >> any discussion on that hearing seeing none. All those in favor say I. I >> post nay. >> And that >> that's it. >> Pass. That's all you got? >> That's all I got. >> Mr. Shaw, finance. >> Um, we had our finance and facilities
055committee meeting and at that meeting we had uh as I had mentioned earlier, Nathan gave a report on the investment and the strategies and uh gave the committee a very detailed detailed report. He has all that information. If anybody would like it, if anybody has any questions now, you could ask him. But he has handouts that he supplied the committee with um with specifics of the information that was that is going to take place with that $14 million in the next couple years. Um Mike gave a facilities update. He indicated that the Lincoln project is completed completed with a flat roof portion. Um they're going to start on the rest of the school later on this year. Uh the is getting bids for the new Boiler at Washington Middle School. Um the baseball complex has
056been uh the donations received from Pop Asphalt for the bidding and lighting of the parking lot. Um and the donations are continually coming in for the for the baseball complex. And that is that is well underway. We have two motions in front of the board that take need that the committee that take uh action for tonight and one of them is um the selection of the legal council for the Manto public school district. um in the past that has not been voted on and and thank you to the administration for bringing this to policy that the board must pass um who we select for legal counsel to represent not only the board of education but also the school district. So after much discussion it was it was made and seconded by the committee to retain
057van brie and roper as one and bu and veter as the other one. Um each law firm has their own specificity and their own specific qualities and it is felt by the administration and his team that that the district has been served well by utilizing both legal firms. So the motion was made. It was passed three to nothing. So I'm putting that on the table as a motion to approve Van Brie and Roer and Bailey and Veter for our legal council again for the 2526 school year. >> I have a second from Mr. Ael. >> Any discussion? >> I think they've been I think they've been good. I mean we've I think they really have been a lot of help. >> I would agree. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. Hi O.
058>> Thank you. >> Diligent Community Software is the other one that needs to action by the full board tonight. Um rather than me try to slaughter this explanation, I'm going to turn it over to to Lori to give us a little bit of review of what this new software project or software program will do for us as we say goodbye to board book. So Lori, >> oh we saved good. >> If you want to want to give us a little bit of insight, that would be great. >> How would we want to dump port >> um a pro I was approached um by u I guess it would be like a a representative from diligent community um asked to do a demonstration. Um Jessica from our IT department, she joined in the demonstration demonstration as
059well. Um the program is um very user friendly. Um it is I think it's going to allow us to really um do some things that we aren't able to do with board book. Um navigate easier. Um it's going to flow better I think with our um our IT people. I think they're going to appreciate it from what Jessica has told me and um looking forward to to learning and finding out what the availabilities. They gave us some school districts that are currently using it. It also integrates with our um our website as well really nice nicely too. So >> awesome. Thank you. Um that motion u was made in the committee and it would pass unanimously. But as I said to Mr. were able sitting next to me tonight. The only and the most important
060person who really counted on this award was Lori and she said this is really really good. And so who are we to argue with her? We said it's really really good. So I make the motion that we adopt diligent community software proposals uh for the replacement of board book. >> I have a motion and a second for Mr. Ael. Any discussion on this? I read the thing and honestly it made me feel totally dumb. I couldn't figure out what the hell, you know, and and so I'm really glad that I'm really glad that Lori made the decision. >> And aren't you glad that Lori is going to teach us? >> Yeah. Right. >> Would you please put his remarks in bold and >> 96 font, please? My only comment is I hope that this software
061can actually be as diligent as you >> are. >> I'll second that. >> All right. Wait. I'm just going to start bringing everything through. Lori. >> We have a motion in a second for approval of the diligent community software proposal. All those in favor say I. >> I. Say nay. >> And it passes. All right. Anything else, Mr. Sh? >> Nope. That was great committee. Great committee. Thank you. >> Well, and I was going to mention that in my remarks that I want to thank the committees for the work they're doing. It's just it you guys are doing it correctly. Um I've been on a lot of different government boards, but our committees have this down and I appreciate that. So, nice work on that. The only the other thing, August 25th is the date
062coming up for the back to school um meeting at Lincoln High School. I believe the breakfast starts at what? >> 7:15 >> or 7 o'clock. >> 7 o'clock. >> Seven. >> Okay. >> Breakfast 7 to 7:45 and then the program and the term starts at 8 and everyone's welcome. We'll notice it. >> August 25th. Just kind of put that on your calendar. >> I'll send out a calendar. >> Okay. Um other than that, we go to future meeting dates and some information from the super. >> Yeah. So, um I don't really see we don't have uh a need for a special meeting per se. However, it's hiring season and however Stacy is going to need some approvals of some hires. So, um we completely are at liberty to hold a virtual meeting. It is in
063our policy and it is okay. Um so what I would propose is that as this need arises and I I don't anticipate a need any other need for a meeting a second meeting on the 26th but um given the timing um perhaps if you know try to get consent to the board if they would be willing to participate uh essentially in a virtual meeting that will include a personnel report. >> A long one. >> Okay. Okay. >> A yeah hopefully a long personnel report. >> It will be long. >> Are we Zoom or Teams? Uh Google >> Google Meet. Okay. >> Google Meet. >> Do we get those glasses that you put on since it's a virtual meeting? >> Okay. >> So, is the board okay with that if we would do that for the
064>> Oh, sure. >> second meeting of the month. >> Oh, yeah. >> Okay. >> Anything else? >> We have the WASPY fall regional meeting. >> Yes. >> Uh that's on Tuesday, October 21st. And I don't know if it would serve as a little extra incentive, but uh board member Shaw has >> No, no, it's not an extra. >> Well, he's receiving he's become a level three board member according to Wasby. So, >> um I felt obligated to let everybody know that in case they wanted to attend. >> Is that a yellow? I I thought the I thought the main the main topic >> for was was a was a pretty good >> stuff I I want to know about >> so if you're interested in going Lori can register you right >> just let me
065know >> that now that date might be a second meeting if we need it in October >> well that is the second Tuesday >> the fourth Tuesday >> the 25th >> what we could do is vote >> if if we need a special meeting in October. >> Um, we could just look >> That'd be the third. >> Oh, that's the third one's in between. >> Oh, okay. Great. >> That's county board. >> Yeah, school board. >> Yeah. >> Church council. >> In the past, they've been they've been quite good is the pre sessions are are informative. It's what's going on in the state as far as kids education. And then there's a there's a nice dinner at home and then there's a short um WB presentation uh legal usually legal updates, but it's it's usually
066pretty good. This will last all the time. >> So, put that on your calendars if you're interested and um >> let me know and I'll do a group registration. >> Okay. >> Anything else for future meeting dates? I think we're >> just that I think we land on uh September 2nd uh for our next slate of committee meetings. >> So, be watching out for those and then Lori will be in touch to schedule uh our one-on-one meetings for this next round. Just remember our committee meetings are usually the week before this meeting and if for some reason you can't get there, let me know and then I'll >> try to get to the meetings. I just I don't want to hang around at committee meetings because it's really the committee should be doing that work.
067>> Oh yeah. >> Um and that's and as I said before, I thank you because you guys are doing a heck of a job. >> You really are. Appreciate that. All right, I think we're done. Do we have a motion to adjourn? >> Wow. >> So move, >> Mr. Bowman. Also, I have a second. >> I'll second. Yeah. >> All those in favor of say >> I >> opposed. I >> You were opposed. >> No. >> The eyes have the eyes have. >> Thank you guys. >> Thanks everyone.