001is 6 o'clock. I'll call the Manitoba public school district board meeting to order. And uh as we always do, we will start with the pledge of allegiance this time. It is a recorded pledge of allegiance with the 4K students from Miss Cisson's four K class at Riverview School. So you could stand and join them. That would be wonderful. Of the United States of America, indivisibley, justice for all. apparently it has a round [Music] wanted to thank them. There was some uh transportation issues with parents and getting kids here and so we recorded it. It was just as nice. They said it very well. We appreciate that. All right, everybody signed in and we for the role by Miss Brown. Christopher Ael here. David Bowman here. Miss Hansen here. Anne Holen here. Mary Loy Blanik here.
002Heath Shaw here. Harry Tra here. Thank you. And we will move on to public input. I have two people here. I think they were here last time, so I won't repeat my statement from last time. Um, but again, just remember that uh we appreciate different opinions. We appreciate things say, but let's uh treat everybody with respect and keep it to the policy rather than personal attacks. So we'll start with Barb host street. The community district as a whole needs to find a way to create unity in this present state of this school. Lights and transparency of the progress you have gained is essential. This sharing shows the community that they matter and brings trust in the district. More info is needed on acting and behavior progress is a priority. Students know who they are when
003they arrive at your door, but they do not know what they can turn out to be. An educator works with the attributes the student brings and discovers what modifications will suit their individual uniqueness, what they can be and truly are able to achieve. Through this exploring and discovery, they can truly be brought to believe in themselves and their growing abilities to achieve personal responsibility to the task at hand. This progress is achieved and celebrated by being in a full inclusion classroom where they're engaged with a peer-driven environment, not pulled out of one, with exception for math and reading enrichment after it has been introduced in the classroom. We were indicated to be a true full full inclusion district and we need to bring that to fruition meaning all students and staff are fully included and
004engaged to be their best selves assuring that the students are fully ready when the next step in their journey when they leave MSP they'll be fully engaged in community and able to take care of themselves as well as their peers is this attainable yes with a team-driven inclusion Everyone involved, trained, informed, collaborating and communicating with the goal of total student achievement. It will be taxing, but never give up. Always find a new solution. Through that, you show role modeling that this can be achieved. We need to find a different answer. All students will be confident, independent, and socially skilled. Stu students need to know that school is the door that opens up the world of discovery. presenting and assuring the skills they are needed so they can pursue their dreams, evolve, open the door and
005be the change so all students will thrive in the everchanging world. Thank you. Thank you Barb. Sarah Weinberg. Hi Sarah Weinberg, president of the Manitaw Education Association. I just have a few questions about the change to the elementary school um schools days with the early dismissals and the staff development days um from members. So uh they would like to know is there a clear plan on how the early dismissal or the days off will be used? Will elementary teachers have clear times daily? Will all the meetings like the PLC's, grade level, math, reading, attendance committee the that are before, after school or during preps be then limited? And um I just want to say, don't get me wrong, I've been asking for more defined prep times for our elementary teachers because their prep time is
006very limited um for years. I appreciate this um proposal, but we just want a more clear definition on where they will get their classroom and prep time. Thank you, Sarah. If you would email those questions, I will get them to somebody that can answer them for you. Thank you. No other uh piece of paper for public input. We will close public input at this time and uh move on to the consent agenda. It is listed on your um agenda. On the agenda, it's listed on the agenda. If anybody wants anything pulled from that to discuss, you can do that at this time. Uh, or ask Chris. I would request that we pull number 5D, number 5E, parts 1, 3, and 18 rather than pull all of the uh policies. I'm just asking to pull. So,
007you want the uh D the personnel report, D the personnel report, and 1, three, and 18 of the policies. three and 18. Yeah. Thank you. Yep. Anybody else? See nobody else with a concern. Um we will pull those. So at this time, if I can get a um motion and a second to approve those on the consent agenda that were not pulled. Mr. Shaw, Mr. woman with a second. Any discussion on that? Seeing none, all those in favor of pulling I'm sorry. All those in favor of approving those say I. I. Post say nay. And let's look at the personnel report. Chris, go ahead. Thank you. Mike, uh, any, you know, it's my standard question. Um, any of these license with stipulation? any of these are people worth approving because they are not currently certified
008by the state of Wisconsin. I I believe that they are all certified teachers not on any LWS's. Okay. So that's that's ever okay. Thank you. I guess what it's still open. I Yes. Go ahead. I I notice a lot of special ed people are are jumping ship here and um I know they're hard to hard to replace. Um could you explain that? Describe the situation that's cause and what what our reaction is going to be. Well, um, we currently have four elementary special education positions totally in the district. We're we're fully staffed at the middle school and high school. Um, and of the four elementary positions, I can't recall exactly why people um were partying. However, um, we have we have some applicants. We're in the process of doing some interviews and once again it'll
009be interesting to see whether we have to look for emerges to see if they can help too. But we will do what we did last year which means we will take all avenues every opportunity we can to fill every position with the best people that we can. Michael, that is a issue that we have yearly with special ed. Correct. Correct. Positions. Yes. My understanding is nationally if you last 5 years teaching special ed, right? It would be very interesting to be able to uh see if we can could take all of the special education postings tomorrow and give us a full number on that. It'd be very interesting to see what that number would be in the state as far as posting. And I think you would probably be higher than any other district out
010there. Just it's just it's a challenging position to be in. Yeah. Yes, it is. Chris, anything else on that issue on the personnel report? Nope. I have a motion to approve that report then. So moved. Motion. Do I have a second? Second. Second with Keith. Any other discussion on it? All those in favor say I. Say nay. And that is approved. Okay. Policy three. Chris. Is it 1, three, 1, three, and 18? Right. 1 three and 18. Yes. I'm sorry. 1 three and 18. number one. I just got to see where I put it. Yeah. Uh my my only thing on this one is that I won't be supporting this because I think it's superfluous. We've recently done this. We didn't need a policy at that time. I think policies are a great thing if
011you don't have something else that covers thing, which I will say I think is true of many of the policies that went through this round. There were a lot of policies that we didn't need because they're covered in uh handbooks. Which one is this? But this is uh hold on a Google Drive just popped up to get my way. This is 1260 titled titled incapacity of the district administrator. Oh yeah, because I Yes, this is the duty of the board. Is the duty of the board to make that determination? I I certainly have uh some concerns about how the board is to determine that it administrator is incapacitated. But I do believe that the board has the ability to make these decisions and act well without the need for policy to guide it. We were
012able to handle a similar situation recently when we had a sudden resignation. So uh I just don't support creating a policy. Any other discussion on that? Seeing none. Um, is there a motion to pass it at is or would somebody like to amend it or remove it from here? I make a motion to approve 1260. Have a motion to approve 1260. Do I have a second? I'll second it. I have a second for Mr. Sh. Any other discussion? Hearing seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. Say nay. And it passes. Number three, Mr. Able. Which one is that? Number three is 2451. Program or curriculum modifications. finding this. Um this this allows um this allows uh students parents primarily students who have their own agency, the parents are informed to make requests to
013change uh curriculum to best suit their needs and what have you. And it says uh at the bottom it says uh the written request shall be provided to the district administrator who will provide it to the board or an administrator who is designated to handle such requests. My concern here is that it's either or. I think if we get requests like this since ultimately the people who set curriculum is the board, the board should at I rather than an or I would like that to be an and so that the board is notified when people are making specific requests for a change to um enrollment core curriculum. I just cut the last the last clause of of the sentence out. the an administrator who is designated to handle such requests. Just stop it at board.
014No, I said I would like it to say and and Oh, you'd like to say and Oh, I see. So, in other words, the board would always be notified. The board is always required to act, but the board is always aware in case later it comes to the board for action because that's in the process later. So, Mr. and Mrs. Smith want their son or daughter out of a class because let's say the unit that they're studying is not something they agree with, right? That would have to come to the board for notification or is that just a parent right that they have that they can do. I mean that's parents absolutely have that right to do that, right? And and parents can do that whether we approve or not. These are things that the
015district through an administrator does through an administrator of the board does approve. And my only point is if parents request something and the administrator says no, we may not know about it until they finally come to us in writing saying, "I don't know why I'm being told this." I'm just saying if we're aware from the start, it just improves communication. So, here's what I'll do to make life easier for everybody. I move that the word or in the first sentence of the paragraph below the um enumerated letters be changed from or to and. Okay. I'll second the motion. Okay. Sure. So, we have a motion and a second to change or to and Okay. And that can be just a simple communication to just an email. I don't think it's micromanaging, but it comes close.
016Yeah, I understand what you're saying. I just I just don't know if if personally I need to know the ins and outs of families and their personal beliefs and what they want taught and not taught. You know, I I understand what you're saying, but that's also kind of up to them and their family. So, I Yes, Keith. I agree that you're right. It's up to them, but it's I think the the motion is that we are at least aware of that. It's a and that we are notified as well as the administrator making a decision. It's a and not that we're going to overrule it or anything. It's just a notification. Um because you know darn well board members are going to get communication that it's going to be it's better to have some knowledge
017of an issue rather than play dumb. So I agree that a little bit of knowledge is is okay. I I don't So, can you clarify, David? I'm sorry. The way I'm reading this though, it says who will provide it to the board or an administrator if we choose to let an administrator in on it. The board is already being that's an listed first. The written request shall be provided to the building principal, the district man administrator who will then take the action of providing it to the board or providing it to an administrator who has the authority to make a a decision. Um, so my reading of that says the board is already going to be notified. Am I wrong in that? Notified up front. I think it's an option to hang on Mary. No,
018I think that word or could potentially take the board out of it which is what Mr. able is yeah legally or means we don't don't have I I'm concerned Chris and just want to respectfully challenge you a little bit um for example one of the items on here is related to homebound study and in most cases homebound is given to a student who might have a medical agility that wouldn't allow them to do all of the curriculum work or do it at school I I I I think That's what Biff was kind of kicking around like as a board member, I'm not so sure that I need to know all of that detail. So, if that request were to come my way um as an information point, I would hope I'm not given um information
019that could violate HIPPA, for example. Um am I simply being told um Mr. and Mrs. Smith, back to your example, have requested that their son or daughter have both homebound education. Um Katie approved it because of the medical situation. That's a little different. Um I'm not sure by just changing that word that we're clarifying that tonight. Yeah. May I ask what's the frequency that curriculum is requested to be changed? Very rare. It's very rare. Okay. I mean, if it's very rare, then why notified? I mean, if we're getting 200 requests at an academic year, that might be over. Does this need to be in a timely fashion or can there be a report at the end of the year saying blah blah blah blah blah. I I think they're suggesting timely fashion because if they're
020not happy with the district response, you're going to hear about it as a board member. I think that's the point made. So at the end of the year wouldn't really give you that heads up if I'm understanding Mr. Mr. Shaw correctly. Okay. I understand there need to be in the no but how much know how much do we need to know? Anything else discussion? Then we will vote on the amendment to add the word and. Actually to strike the or strike the or and add and. Okay. So all those in favor of striking or and changing it to and signify by saying I. I. Those opposed say nay. Nay. I think if we hear let's uh raise your hands for the naysay to help Laurel the Naz. So the motion fails. Anything else on that?
021Let's move on. Does it uh you might want to vote on except Yeah, you Oh yeah. Okay. So, let's or perhaps table and have the policy committee look at it again. Sure. If you're going to move that, let's do that um at the next policy meeting. They can talk about it a little deeper, but I also want it talked about so we can get it off the table, get it. So, uh we get a vote to table that or move it to the policy committee to relook at that one specific. Do we need to do that? That's up to the naysay. I guess it's up to the naysay. Yeah, if you'd like that. Otherwise, we'll just uh vote again to vote on the original. You need a motion. I need a motion. I make a
022motion to approve board policy 24. Okay. I have a motion to approve the way it is and with the second. Any other discussion on that? All those signify by approval by saying I. I. Post say nay. Nay. The eyes were four five. All right. 18. It was 43. It was 43. What's the number? Oh, yeah. You're right. Sorry. My math is bad text. It's been a long day. What's What's the number? This was number 18. number 18, which is the new policy, which I only pulled out to say two things. Number one, yay, thank goodness, we finally have a policy about wireless communication devices. Oh my god. And second to say heads up parents, we have a policy about wireless communication devices and they're a distraction and they are not terribly productive when not aimed
023at what be going on in the classroom. So just warn everybody, you want to be reading this policy and understanding what it does. Yeah, that's good. But I thought it was important that Yeah. And this was driven by the state of Wisconsin, right? use of cell phones. My only concern with this is that we have to make sure there's somebody live to answer the phone in each school office. So, if a parent calls to get a hold of their son or daughter for a change of appointment or some other situation, they're not getting a recorded message to the person an hour later. So, it's it's got we got to figure out a way to make it live so somebody can answer that phone and say, "Hey, we'll get the message to your son or daughter
024as soon as we can." All right. Do we have a motion to approve this one? I move. Got a motion by Chris, a second. Second. Second by David. Um, any other discussion? All those for approval say I. All say nay. And it is approved. All righty. We move on to a special party tonight. Student representative report. Ellie. Oh, my longest one. So, go over there. Yes, exactly. Wow. I know. Wow. All right. So, I'm going to start off with my my usual. I'm going to acknowledge some of the great things we have happening at Lincoln right now. Our track team made to state and earned some medals. Senior Tessa Cample placed third in the 400 meter and ninth in the 200 meter. And the girls 4x400 meter of senior Brianna Jansky, senior Tessa Campell, junior
025Khloe Gelbert and freshman Cal Ikeman took sixth. Our girls soccer team had their first winning season in program history. And junior Sarah Bolton broke the single season scoring record with 21 goals. Bolton also made the first team all conference while junior Ella Demetrius and sophomore Cora Foster both made honorable mention. Um, our baseball team was regional champions and they battled it out today in an attempt to make to state. Unfortunately, they lost by only one run. So, a very sad day. Uh, senior Brandon Steinbecker was named FRCC player of the year. Who he was also named first team allconerence infielder and pitcher unanimous. Senior Seth Jibo was named second team allconerence pitcher. Senior Cameron Brown was named second team allconerence catcher. Senior Van Strader was named honorable mention designated hitter and junior Gabe Ikeman was
026named honorable mention infielder. And additionally, senior softball player Maddie Johnson was named honorable mention catcher. So, a lot going on in the sports world to end off the year, which is great. All right, so now that we've covered that, I am very sad that today is my final report as the student representative. Next year, incoming junior Lulu Limbbo will be taking over and incoming junior Jade Legato will be the alternate. It's Lulu's birthday today, so she was going to come, but then I told her she did not need to spend her birthday at a school board meeting, but I will fill her in on everything. They're fun. So, I will fill her in. I'll fill both of them in case Jay has come as before they take over next year. So, they should be all
027set to coast. And I told them they had to do their homework and watch some old videos. So, I'm sure they'll have fun with that. Um, I believe that these two will do a great job representing the students of our district and being the next student representative and alternate. I just want to take a moment to quickly thank everyone who made this position possible. It was a task that spanned over multiple years. With so many people helping, it would be impossible to name them all. I truly believe that having a student representative on the board changed the culture of our district in a positive direction. I've learned a lot in this position and I hope that I have diligently represented the students of the entire district and not just Lincoln. As the first ever student
028representative, it makes me very proud to think that there's a little kindergarter student sitting out there somewhere who will one day be sitting in the same spot I am. The group that made this position possible has created a legacy that will outlive all of us. And it is truly an honor to have been a part of it. Now, my little final thing is I have what I would like to call my final call to action. So, it's just a couple things that are going to outlive my time in the district. Some of them by upwards of like 20 years. So, you could probably guess my first thing is talking about potentially rebuilding schools. Um, I know we have a long list of things to fix around our district and all those are crucial needs that
029need to happen first, but Lincoln has been around for over a hundred years. And I don't have a plan for this, but I just want to start planting the seed in the back of everyone's mind that at some point in the next one to two decades. There will need to be a new high school. So, don't want it to come out of nowhere. I just want everyone to keep thinking these things. You know, got to keep it in their brain. And, you know, could still keep the tower and JFK and you could still have graduation in the bowl. Build a high school. So, I don't I don't know where. I don't have a plan. I'm not a architecture, but you know, could build a new lot, still keep Lincoln, make it like a historic museum
030or something. I don't know. I don't know. But just think about it. Okay. It needs to happen. Um, and then I just have a few list of things that I would like to say before I leave. We need to continue the inclusivity of all students and continue to work to be better at that. We need to make sure that students from kindergarten to seniors in high school are being challenged in the classroom and are able to reach their full potential. We need to continue to promote the good in our district. The bad stuff that is often untrue is what catches people people's attention. So, we need to work to counteract that with the truth about how good our schools are. And as a district, we need to be more adaptable and willing to embrace change.
031And in all honesty, if I had given my list of things I want to see changed when I started this position, it would be like 10 pages longer. But I we have done a lot in the past two years and the board has done a lot and I'm very grateful for everyone who has been a part of that and your kindness and accepting a student into these important conversations and I look forward to seeing how this district grows in the upcoming years. So thank you for everything. If you don't have a chance to work with high school kids or middle school kids or even elementary kids, one thing I learned from from Ellie and the other kids at Lincoln that we got to know over the last couple of years as student representative is they're
032a lot smarter than I ever was in high school. They have more empathy for their fellow classmates than we did many, many years ago. Um, and they're always thinking about ways to change things for the better. And uh I remember the first night I think you were here, Ellie, and they made the representative sit at a small table somewhere. Yeah. and we asked if we could move um the representative up to where the board sits and and we did that and um they really weren't sure how much they wanted the high school kid talking but um it was great because Ellie and the sub Winona Winona um there were times when they wanted to speak and they would raise their hand and they would speak and I'm going to tell you more knowledge came out
033of the mouth of the kids from the high school than probably the rest of was sitting at this table. Um, they were if if you got a chance, get to know high school kids. They're a pretty special group and so are the middle and elementary kids. But we appreciate what you did, Ellie. It was uh tough being a trail police. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Superintendent. Yeah. So, let's just stay on the Ellie train here. Uh, I have a couple things for you. So, if you just stand here. um you're graduating and on behalf of the board and our community, I just want to thank you for your service on the school board. As Mr. Hansen pointed out, you have been a trailblazer for this position. Um, you've done it with integrity, purpose, um, and
034we're a really focus on student voice, which I think if you think about an a person to step into a role like that, you want them to establish that they're going to be here for student voice, and you've done that. So, on behalf of the board of education, I'd like to present you with certificate of commendation in recognition of your service to the children in Wisconsin public schools from 2023 to 2025. Um, and this is a official WASBY Wisconsin Association of School Board certificate. So, thank you very much. Thank you. [Applause] It'll be something to remember the Chromebook. Oh, sure. It'll take a little picture in your Chromebook as much as you congratulations on your upcoming graduation. Best of luck to you. I'm very excited to have uh uh uh the June's Learning Showcase uh
035here. I'd like to invite uh Riverview Elementary fifth grade teacher Jennifer Hegner up with some of her students who are going to share some original poetry with us tonight. We're very excited. Uh so come on up. [Applause] So, as Mr. Tennis said, I do have four fifth graders from Riverview that would like to share their poetry. Oh, by the way, Ellie, I think two kids already mentioned they want to take your job. They're very excited about opportunity. So, my first student, uh, Sa Lithan, go ahead. It's okay. They're all nice people. Trust me. I need to come. His his poem is very fitting to his situation right now. All right, we have Alex James. All right, very nice. Okay, my poem is called Spring. Spring. Okay, here it is. Spring is warm and breezes are
036cool. Summer is coming, so jump in a pool. Leaves are swaying in the warm breeze. All I see are a bunch of trees. Spring smells fresh, just like flowers. When people hate spring, they are cowards. When it's spring, flowers, beautiful songs to please the king. Rasen's flowers fill my brain. When it rains, flowers gain. No more king. [Music] My next student is Bren. She's got it. She's an addict. She's easily addicted to books. So, this is so fitting for her as well. That poem is called I eat books. Um, I eat books, I devour words. I mention consonants for breakfast. I chomp down on vowels for lunch. I digest figurative language for dinner. I fill my tummy with stories. I gulp down thoughts. Paragraphs taste like sweet, sweet syrup. I love books. They are delicious.
037The stories that go down my throat don't just sit there. They make energy. Words fuel ideas. Phrases spark my imagination. Chapters move my hand to create something new. I love TV is not dectable. Projections taste like wood. I don't enjoy eating screens. Tummy aches. Indigestion. That's what what I will get if I judge shows and movies. I love books. They are delicious. All right. And then Elise Kaplan is going to take us on a little adventure. Is called Fairy Tales. I closed my eyes after reading fairy tales. I wish I could meet them all. My fairy tale heroes. Surrounded by ocean, I splash with the little mermaid. We swim at the speed of light. Our tails glimmering in the sunshine. I call to Rapunzel to let down her hair. And golden locks of sunlight come
038streaming down from the heavens. I dance the night away. Midnight strikes. Cinderella and I escape together, giggling like hyenas. Skipping through the woods with Lil, we bring cookies to grandma, humming a merry tune and looking out for the sly. Hansel Gretle and I gour ourselves with candy. The evil witch greeting us inside her candy cottage. I climb up the long bean stop with Jack. The giant waiting for us at the top. I jump in our veins. Hurry to a clearing across the lake. All 12 apprentices and I advance the night away. Our heels dirty and broke. My head shatters against the mirror and snow falls overhead. Me and the ice queen make snow angels and carve ice figures in the cold. As my mother shakes me awake, I realize these fairy tales were nothing but
039dreams. But why was there glass in my hair and seaweed and golden locks and candy? Why were my feet filthy? Maybe it wasn't all a dream. My name My name is S and my poem is called Unwanted Attention. But since I lost the first copy, I had to remake it. I feel unwanted attention makes it hard to mention a way I could escape this cold hard convention where people decide to see everything around me. And at a point I could feel I could fly away like a bee. I feel something in the air. I see something in the air, but it's just a fly. As they continue their slayer, I see a thousand eyes fluttering around like butterflies. But then I realize that I can't escape, for then my hope dies. So, you either teach
040high school or middle school, you have some amazing students coming your way because I mean, I was blown to bits when they turned this in. I I don't know. I was just blessed to have them as my kids this year. So, thank you. Thank you. Awesome job. Thanks for being here and sharing with us. Um, it's part two of the learning showcase. I'm inviting uh principal Annab Bey and Associate Principal Amanda Pala up uh from Wilson Middle School for a couple of celebrations. I want to congratulate you guys and I'm excited that you're going to be future Warhawks. So, you are Thank you. Um, we just have a few celebrations and I can probably tell you you guys don't have to stick stick around because I' I've had little humans with me up here. So,
041just know you get to that's how it works. No offense to all the people. All right. We um shared some of these celebrations with our directors and um superintendent tennis and they asked us to come in and share them with you just to spread some extra joy at the end of the school year. Um so these were some of our celebrations that we shared with our families in our recent newsletter. Um our literacy growth this uh over the last two years have has actually kind of blown us out of the water and we're really proud of it. Um, and I'm hoping that we'll continue to see that correlation as we get our f as we get our forward results as well. Um, but at the start of the school year last year, so in the
0422324 school year, we had about 34% of our students that were actually performing proficiently or above in ELA. At the end uh or I should say at the start of this school year, we had 52% of our students demonstrating proficiency in ELA. And by the end of this school year, we had um 75% of our students reading proficiently. Um and that's using our FastBridge district assessment along with um their unit tests to figure out that um percentage. So, we're excited to see forward and hopefully see some additional growth within that as well. Uh another thing that we were celebrating this year at Wilson is that we had a huge increase in student participation in the building. So our engagement in extracurricular activities was 382 of our students participating in sports and 226 in different clubs
043this year. Um students in our clubs had lots of positive experiences. Um we even had some new clubs. Uh we had like NJHS or National Junior Honor Society which was new to us this year. Um and they created like a student versus staff volleyball tournament which went over very well. Um highly competitive we are at Wilson. Uh and we also uh had clubs like our um student council that puts together all of our dances and our tech club and actually um our teched club for teacher appreciation. They made name plates for all of our staff. The entire staff every single staff member got this. And then there's a little quote on the bottom and it says, "Never doubt that one person can make a difference." And so every single person in the building got this.
044So it's a true testament to how much work that they did after school and all the nice things that they're doing. So um our students actually came to one of our staff meetings to hand all of those out to to So it was great to see the smiles on their faces as they were getting a gift from our students. One of the new events that we we started this year was our culture fair. That was in fall. We had our first ever culture fair in which 23 different cultures were represented. Families, community members, students all were able to explore and learn about games, traditions, art, architecture, transportation, celebrations, sports, foods, the list goes on. Um, so it was a fun event. We had some of our central office staff come and join us for the
045event as well. Um, we made some we made we made we made a a slot for um egg rolls. So, it was great. It was a a really fun activity um and event for our staff and students and we spent a whole half day on it. So, um actually kind of day was so exciting and we just had a a student we shared with our eighth grade celebrations today an eighth grader said it was their favorite day of the whole year. Um, so nothing like making them rake yards to say that's their favorite day of the year. But, um, for World Kindness Day, we kind of split students into two categories. They did acts of service and acts of kindness. So those acts of service um, were their physical tasks like raking local yards. I
046think people thought we were a little crazy like knocking on doors, you want your yard ra. Um, but they did and it was fun and the kids did a great job. Um, you know, they also did a community outreach. So we had people at Magnolia Meadows. They were um painting elderly fingernails and playing games with them and just having a really good time. Um we also had um people creating uh cards for um those at Aurora Hospital. Um and then also decorations for any residents at Manuk Health and Rehabilitation Center. Um it was just all in all uh oh and they also went to read at uh elementary school as well. So, we had a group of students that Manach Public Library graciously gave us um picture books and then we took those to the
047elementary schools and they were able to read which um I think our elementary kids always love when we get the middle schoolers over there to read and the middle schoolers also really love that and gives them that leadership opportunity. So, all in all, they handled it really well and a true testament to our staff to kind of pull together and and work out kindness day. So, I will say at the end of the half day um the students were like what's our next rotation? and we're like, um, there isn't one going on. And they're like, come on. So, they continued to talk about kindness day throughout the year to say, when are we doing our next one? Uh, lastly, we had our buddy program, which uh they you you got to see them earlier this
048year. And it's just another true true testament to our staff and our students um who put that and started that buddy program together this year. Um it it build um it built up our students leadership skills and cooperative learning as well. I would say it was a positive impact on our Wilson community. And today as we were celebrating with our eighth graders, that one came up again as one of their favorite things from the year. And as soon as somebody said the buddy program, there was just just a wave of cheers going across the eighth grade body student body. So it was really great um to see that and see that they they value it as well. So, thank you for having us. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Thank you. Um, a couple
049other brief highlights from my reporting. Remember, it's graduation day coming up. We had a great uh McKinley graduation last week, Thursday, um, at the conservatory and it was wonderfully attended. A great celebration for those students. And of course, on Friday at 1:00 is Lincoln's graduation. uh please be by a by about 12:35 12:40 because we'll be walking down at about 12:50 uh to take our seats. Um we've had a lot of celebr May is always the time to celebrate. So, we had, of course, our YA celebration, our scholarship and awards night, um, where a total of 199 scholarships were awarded to 99 Lincoln High School seniors totaling over $455,000, uh, which is a huge accomplishment for all those students and their hard work um, that they've put in over the years. Um, we also gave
050out our last round of cold coffee awards for June uh for our staff. And so congratulations to our June winners, Gail Bailey, Lexi Rico, Jessica Primis, Alicia Raymond, Stan Rosinski, Angel Cosme, Katie Shrank, Ruth Crowy, and Marie Jenkins. And um I would also entertain any questions you have about the rest of my report, which is in written form. Yeah. Any questions for the super Not seeing that. All right. Directors works there too. Director report. Thank you guys. Did we get that? Yes. Yeah. Been ready. Any questions for Heidi? Any comments? Heidi? Good. Okay. I outstanding. I'm I'm so happy to see this summer school report. I think it's about time that we got back to that kind of summer school. But um do our kids that enroll in these activities, is there a fee to
051that or is it they no fee at all? Um if there's special projects, they have to pay for those. But there's one school that I know that's considering a field trip where they'll be asking for parents that can contribute to a field trip, but other than that, no. No, they don't pay any fees. Awesome. Yeah. Thank you. Good. Anything else for Heidi? See anything? We'll move on to new business. Um resolution awarding the sale of 14 million general obligation promise or not. Ken, do you want to speak to that? Yes, I have a a guest um Michael Clark from brother W and we had some good openings today and I'll turn it over to Michael. So, uh, first off, congratulations on the referendum. I was here for a lot of meetings leading up to that.
052Um, so, but, uh, especially since the overall success in the state wasn't as solid as it had been and it's been trending down the last few elections, I think that anyway, a great success for the district. Uh, so we took bids on the first portion of the financing. The plan was all along to do it in two parts. There's various components in and in in the the laws or regulations we follow that that kind of led us to this point. If you borrow less than $15 million in a calendar year, you get three years to spend it, meaning any interest you earn on the money, you don't you're not exposed to any potential arbitrage risk. That was one of them. Also, a lot of projects start out a little slower, ramp up in terms of
053expenditures. Um, so we took bids on the first $14 million. Looking at page two, it was great to see eight bids, which is a really solid number because it was a fairly busy week in the market. Um, Jenny Montgomery Scott was the winning bidder at 4.7129. And you can see that really all most of the bids were very tight. So, which gives you a good feeling that that's where the market was. So, felt very good about that. And just for point of reference, in the in the financing we plan prepared for the referendum, we use 5 and a4% as an estimate. We knew that was conservative. We always like to round up and deliver revenues. When we look at the financing plan, you'll see that we're using five and a half for the second phase,
054which is really conservative as well, especially when you consider those are short maturities, which we'll looked at in a second. So, uh, off to a great start as far as, uh, delivering good news to the taxpayers. Uh the issue is general obligation promisary notes. Again, the base amount is 14 million. The district will receive the full 14 for projects. The settlement date will be July 10th. We'll work with the district. We'll prepare a closing memo, work with all the parties to make sure that the the funds are are handled correctly on that day. Maturities, again, this was the longer end of the financing plan. Um, our principal payments will be April 1 starting in 37 through 45. We will fill in above that. It's not like we're not going to be paying principal and you'll
055see that in the financing plan. Sometimes people want you paying some principal back sooner. We're we'll fill in above that and you'll see that in a second. Uh, first interest again will be 4126. And so the first levy for the referendum will be part of the 2526 fiscal year. call date will be April 1, 2034 when rates were lower over the past several years. We had a little more flexibility with call dates, but since rates are getting a little bit higher over the last two years, buyers aren't as open to short real short calls because the likelihood of the bonds being called Yeah. It has increased. uh double A3 is the Moody's rating assigned um which is a a great rating rating report is attached to back you know I think as far as the
056things the district can do um they they doing very good things the um things that they mention in terms of what would increase your rating more students higher on balance if fund balance is very solid Um, but you know, the enrollment thing, you have certain limitations to what you can can't do. I know that the district did a nice job describing some of the initiatives on the waiting call that I think help give some comfort to booties that efforts are being made and but they're still, you know, some of the time it's just down to math. It's just fewer kids. So again, the true interest cost for 7129 and Jamie Montgomery Scott. So the next page is the actual financing plan. So 14 million in phase one um and 11 million in phase two. Again,
057you can see the second phase we have just a planning rate of 5.5%. And you can see definitely want to point out those you can see that we're filling in the years above 37 with more principal payments. So, the district will be making principles almost every year of the debt outstanding to uh to get the debt paid back. And as we stand today versus what we our referendum estimate, we're about $1.1 million less in estimated interest costs. I think that number will grow when we look in the second phase, which will be early the first quarter of 26. Uh and again the rating report is included. Um not going to go through it in detail. Uh but I mentioned the the fund balance ratio you know getting 30% or above increasing enroll stabilizing enrollment uh
058economic residential income levels increasing again there's only so much school district can do with that. It's really the economic development of the district itself. Um, obviously the school district plays part of that um in terms of attracting people and businesses here, but it's not something that you can turn around overnight. But then again, factors that could cause a downgrade um if your fund balance would drop below 20% or if your long-term debt increased beyond certain levels. This is in today's terms this is a relative small referendum. Some people have ideas of maybe bigger things down the road which that might come into play but uh again something I would not be overly concerned about. With that I conclude my comments and take any questions. Questions. One of the things I I help me understand, we
059got the double A3, but we could have have maybe a better one had we been in debt. Is that correct? Because we didn't have any debt in this in in the district. No. No. Your leverage. It's It's like a bank. They like to loan people money who don't need it. So, the fact you had no debt actually helped your rating. Okay. the thing that that that they reference in terms of is your fund balance as a whole the cash you have on you know any of your fund balance it's not always cash but um and if you that would increase the fact that you're low debt you don't have large obligations you don't have those type of things is okay so it's not like you're telling us to go further in debt so we get
060a better no a good example uh while school district few years ago passed a $125 million referendum. They were a trip AAA, but because their debt level and the city of Wawos's debt level have raised to a certain point, they were downgraded. Uh okay. Upgraded to a double A1, which still about the same, but our points are break points. This may not be a question for you, but um maybe our business manager. Um what has been I know we are required to have a 20% fund balance but or even what what have we been running at because it says if we approach 30 so what are we typically at and when do we take that snapshot? We're slightly above 20% and we've been that way for a number of years. um our current fiscal position,
061it would be hard for us to get to 30%. Okay. Very much. Could you explain why it's done in two parts? Sure. So, I I one one of the items in the uh in my opening comments is if you borrow less than $15 million in a a a calendar year, you get three years to spend the money and then you can retain all the interest you earn on the funds while they're waiting. If you issue above $15 million, you only get two years to spend the money. So then there's a potential depending on how much you earn and other things to monitor, but in general if you would earn above a certain level, you would have to rebate some of that to the IRS, federal government. Um, and since projects, you know, you'll be doing
062some this summer, but I think the majority of them are are pushed out. And so we didn't want to run into a situation where we didn't spend the money. And it's not only just spending at two years. There's intermediate um marks. So you have to spend um you know 10% in the first 6 months, 45% at 12 months, 75% at at 18 months and then 100% at 24 months. It's and that also includes the interest that you earn. So it's not so it would be if you did it all one 25 plus the interest you'd earn and if you missed any one of those marks you then would have to rebate a potential potentially depending on what you earn portion of the interest you would earn back to the federal government and it gives us
063an extra year to repay the debt right so in essence you get three years and they hit you another one you got three years so technically you got four years to spend that money If retirement, he's still going to be spending all the $15 $14 million. We can take that interest and turn it back into more projects, more projects, but not pay that service. Correct. Correct. But that interest that we're gaining after those three years, we can blow back into the correct. Okay. And so so by doing this small issuer exemption, you have to encumber 5% in the first 6 months, which is if you've signed a contract with an architecture construction company, you've probably done that. And then then you have no you there's no intermediate expenditure targets you have to meet. It just
064gives you more flexibility in terms of spending money and it allows an additional year of repayment. So the debt will be paid back over 21 years versus 20 years. I we just went through this with the county to go borrow for a bond and I was surprised the interest rates were better than I thought they would be. Yeah, it was it was they finally settled the last three weeks. They were extremely choppy for a matter of about six weeks where there was a lot of conversations going on in Washington largely around tariffs and things that cause uncertainty and and so we had some swings and we were seeing on a a given day some really nice rate I mean relatively nice rates and then we saw some very disappointing rates as well. Any other questions?
065We need a uh motion and it will be a roll call um to accept this. I shall move. We have a motion by Mr. Shaw. Do I have a second to the motion? Second for the sale of the bonds. Any other discussion? Chris. Yeah. Um I on one level this probably looks like a note but to me it is very troubling. And I want to preface everything with saying that it's not about the job Bear did about the job Mr. Mishley did. It's about the job our directors did. They all they all did their job. They they really did. Okay. But I have to say that $10 million is a lot of Vick, you know, and on the first borrow of 14 million, we're paying 10 million in interest. So, in the borrow and the
066interest, we almost hit what we went to referendum for in the first borrow. The the good news is the follow-up borrow of 11 million only has about 5.5 million on interest on it, you know. Okay, I I get that everybody did their job and I totally get that we need it and I get that the rates are the rates and there's not a lot you can do about it. You know, actually if the rates come down on the 11 million, it'll be less than 5 and a half, hopefully around five, but but still that's putting us pretty close to 40 million when you pay everything off. And I always look at what that money represents in staff because that's the reality. We don't have a lot of places to save money and we have limited
067places on which to raise the money. This is being very conservative at the outset and then and I'm very happy to see this a couple years in it stabilizes to about the same every time which creates predictability which I think is great. Um and certainly, you know, I completely support the borrowing. I I don't support what it's going to cost us in interest, but I don't think anybody ever does, you know. I don't think anybody ever does. What I will be struggling with going forward is what I'm going to do come April when we look at the other one because that's where we're really pushing well beyond what we initially asked. I know we asked to borrow and we conveniently don't talk about payback, but we did. We sort of warned people what the payback
068would look like. So, I don't know that a lot of people focus on that, but you know, I'll support this. I'm going to think long and hard and hope that things are much better when we go to get the other 11 million. So, it's vote yes with my fingers crossed. Any other discussion questions? Can't argue with a lot that you said, but I think part of this has come down to the way that the district saved programs when money got tight and and didn't take care of buildings. And that's catching up on us now. And so hopefully you're right and rates will come down, but but we either start fixing things, we're going to have to spend more money to build buildings and that's that's not something that uh is going to come cheap. So
069we'll have to see if we can fix what happened. Yes, I just have one additional comment that I should point out that the we also factored in the estimated state aid. Now, that depends on the budgets, but right now we're projecting uh the state to aid the district to about $10 million because your debt service costs are part of the aid formula and some of that is okay. I'll be watching that super closely because I hope you're right. We all will that takes 10 million off. Any other discussion, comments? Thank you. Seeing none, the clerk will conduct a Christopher Ael. Hi. David Bowman. Hi. Biff Hansen. Hi. And Holen. Hi. Barry Loy Bonnik. Hi. Keith Shaw. Hi. Harry Tra. Hi. Thank you. Resolution passes. Visioning plan. Mr. Superintendent. Yeah. Um so again, uh really appreciated
070um the dialogue we were able to have on the 27th when we had our uh work session um on the strategic visioning plan. Um again, just a reminder that um we were hoping to get approval of the plan by the board. Um we will then begin our uh 100 day plan writing uh which will start this month and depending on which of the big rocks it is uh those will get completed uh during the months of June, July and August and when they are completed they'll go to the respective uh committees. Um we were we took the feedback uh um that you gave from the 27th and we made some wording changes uh that were suggested uh and at this point in time um our recommendation is for approval. I'll move that we approve. Second.
071I have a motion by board member Tras, a second from Mr. Shaw. Uh any other discussion on the plan? Seeing hearing none, all those in favor say I. I. Post say nay and it passes. Thank you. Personal policy committee. Mr. Tras. Um the the one thing I want to bring forward forward is second. Uh, I want to make a motion that the Matter Rock public school district provide an annual $1,500 stipens to those speech language pathologists holding a CCC, a certifi certificate of clinical competence in speech language pathology as a method of attracting new new therapists, which is hard hard market as well as retaining the therapists we currently have. Uh that that well I don't have to make this part of the motion but that'll cost us 18 $18,000. Did you make you made
072the motion? I made the motion. I'll second. We have a motion and a second by Mr. Shaw. Discussion. Chris. Yeah. I'm This is an open question to anybody who really wants to wrangle with it. Um, how does this link up? Not link up. I tried to put in a little note, but it was too many words, so I can't read my notes. So, I apologize. I have to go back to what I was looking at. How how does this tie into what we had in the director's report about speech and language pathologists are required to hold a master's degree in addition to requirement of fulfilling uh cus continuing education on a three-year basis speaking language piology degrees and lensure are significantly more rigorous and it also said uh and intensive than other related service degrees
073so I'm trying to understand what that versus CCC is. So, I'm I'm willing to hear from anybody that can explain it to Mike. Well, I can try. It's like it's like top of the heap. Yeah. Um but the CCC the certificate of clinical competence in speech language pathology. It's a nationally recognized certification. It's a certification that takes you above and beyond the maybe the minimal requirements to have a speech language pathology degree which is a master's degree and all that stuff and u as a result it it benefits the district because of the competence level the training benefits the students obviously it benefits the district and um as as we're trying to attract uh speech language pathologists you know you offer a salary, but you can also put in that if you have your CCC's
074as you're well known with them, we we will uh give you a stipen of $1,500. So, it helps with that. And it also helps with STP with anybody around us that we also retain people. We have the the statement for retaining people. Yeah. So, it's a separate thing from what's referenced in the director's report. I'd have to look what's in the director's report, Chris. I'm sorry. Pardon me. I I'd have to look in your director's report. I'm not sure. I believe the clarification was just that in the committee meeting there was a comment made by someone that indicated that they didn't it wasn't necessary for them to hold a master's degree which is uh there was so this is just a correction I believe have a master's as well. And as far as the C's
075go, I I liken it to going on a on a car lot and you notice there's a difference between the used cars that are certified pre-owned used cars and not certified pre-owned used cars. And I would say when you're looking at the certification of the C's, you're looking at those folks who are the certified. Well, so it's really the same term. And actually, you're you're getting you're getting higher quality with the C's. I I I am in no way, shape or form comparing our speech pathologist to you. Somebody else did that. Certified. Certified. Oh, gotcha. Certified. That's the term. Michael, is this another position that's that's difficult? Oh my god. Here's how here's how I have to answer that. Uh uh Biff, I don't There really isn't a position in education anymore that that is
076easy to fill, right? I mean, we had a we have a difficult time filling ELA. We have a difficult time filling math. I mean, you know, we physical education used to attract 150 people. Today, maybe a dozen, maybe. Really? You know, so the the short answer is heck yes. The longer answer is every discipline is difficult today. Honestly, just talk. So, we have to be competitive in the hierarchy. Yes. Yeah, I'd like the doubt. Beyond the doubt. Yes. Okay. Keith, I I think it goes back to what Mr. Bowman had referred to and asking talking about the competitiveness of the district and special education and and teachers as well. We have districts that are offering up to $4,000 stipen to if for speech and language clinicians, right? And I think in the committee uh a
077board or committee member even brought up that is $1,500 even going to be strong enough to compete against these districts who are offering $4,000 statement if you have your C's to come to them because speech and language pathologist are in such a demand that that's the state of the art. Uh I think it's important to realize that we're starting in 1500 and hope we can fill our vacancies. We may not be able to stay at 1500 to fulfill the vacancies because we have a large speech and language population and we don't have the clinicians to fill those to fill those IEP needs. That's that's a federal and state law. We need to be competitive and I hope that's a starting stone. I I hope we're on the right track. Yeah. Anything else? Yeah. In terms
078of of of peer pair institutions, we're on the low side. Yeah. I mean, Stoden is 1500 and but everybody is above that by 2,000 or 3,000 or um I'm I I just have a question sort of a demographic question that I mean I'm old I know but I you know we didn't know what a speech pathologist was when I was in school and nobody was trying to hire them either. what what has happened that we need we we need so much uh you know so much staff and specology I'm not an expert in this area however I do remember it might have been Katie Iikman talked about this a couple years ago a year and a half ago when when we came to the board requesting uh I think had two additional FTEES of SLS
079and the reason we were doing that because the the diagnosis and the number of students requiring speech services had increased so much. I think I remember this kind of a comment that that the pandemic had a little something to do with that relative to the number of students being more isolated and not open in the schools and not where people where there's a lot of language stuff going on and that trend was not just manalk it was it was national where the increases went up over you know after that period of time that's what I recall so you know whether that's going to you know you know stay or decrease again. I don't know. Um, just Keith, just just so the board knows, we have 12 FTEEs and speech language pathologists. Right now, as I
080speak, we're fully staffed, but I have to tell you that's right now. Makes me a little anxious to even say that much wood for now. And it's also interesting to know that years ago you could graduate with bachelor's degree in speech and language pathology and you could work in a public school district. Then the state changed that requirement um a few years after that and that you had to have your master's degree. Then the state again changed that requirement as suggested that districts only hire people with the seeds. So as the state progressively increase their demand or as the districts need increased their demand, the state also increased requirements to get that certification to be in a speech and language clinician. It's same thing in the hospital. The demand was up. They increased the amount
081of schooling for the hospital therapists. So it all kept going on the same spectrum. Same as school psychologist mandatory now you have to have a master's degree and 36 hours beyond your masters to to be a school psychologist. So the state has increase which has depleted the amount of people going into the field as well. Okay, we got a motion from Carrie, a second by Keith to approve this. Any other discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. Post say nay. And it passes. And we move on to Mr. Bowman. A quick report from the curriculum and instruction. Um a very welldetailed um emergency nursing services plan was brought forth by Jenny Hins. Um just some some of the things that stuck out to me. Last year, the for the 2425 school school
082year visits were up 9%. 32,366 nursing visits in our district last year. So, the need is there. Here's the interesting thing. We're basically what the rest of the nation is at as well. They've implemented some things that um have helped um with they have they gave out 200 doses of newest district stocked meds that with parent permission is allowable to give and that returned those students to class rather than going home. So I think that's an important thing. They've done some streamlining with that kind of thing. Um but just just a very interesting thing and one of the things that she brought up was they think that because our numbers have gone up it's largely due to poverty increase. Um another thing is they can track preeies that are now in our school district. So
083now stu students that were born at 24 weeks survived at a much greater rate now than they did 20 years ago. So now we're seeing the the health effects of that on our population. And I thought that was kind of an interesting scientific look at that as well. Um, so that's they did a great job. A few minor changes from what we've had before. Um, 4K start of year conferences. They're going to be meeting with parents 4K kids and also I think they're trying to dovetail with the kindergarten population. Is that correct? That of parents who are not in had did not have a kid in 4K. Is that true or is that my misunderstanding? I don't think they understand. Can you talk about that? So the like kids that are coming into the system
084as 4K, yes, their families are going to meet with teachers and stuff like that so that they can understand what the system is like and they also want to sort of tag kindergarten kids that might be in the same boat where they're just coming into the system now or is that the kindergarten card is not accurate. The rest of it is I misunderstood. Okay. Yes. But that is a great thing. get the people involved in the school because once they're here, they stay, right? Um, elementary collaboration planning time. There's a great plan to make the planning time for PLC's to be more equitable across the district. Um, this will help um the teachers really good PLC time leads to better better outcomes for students. Um, this is a monthly meeting, half days, full days. The
085calendar is going to be put out so that parents can make plans ahead of time and there are already things in process to help cover um care of students. The last thing that I've got is uh the top 10 schools update. Um over a 100 staff this summer are going to be training in um for ACT 20, the science of reading. And each teacher goes through an extensive amount of time that they're that they're learning about the process of science and reading. And it's going to cost us some money because this is a mandate from the state that was not funded to us. Um so we are uh moving forward with that and the people that were talking about it um Heidi seems excited about it and other people that have talked about being on
086the team seem excited about it. So that's good to hear. That is curriculum instruction. We have to we have so we have to vote on the nursing plan and the we have to vote on those. Okay. Sorry I didn't realize but yeah that's okay. Um so do you have a motion for the nursing plan for acceptance? I would move that we accept themer the nursing plan as presented by Jenny Hins. Do I have a second? Second second by Mr. Ael. Any other discussion on the nursing plan? Hearing seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. Post say nay. And it is passed. And then we need a motion, Mr. Bman, on the um elementary collaboration time plan. I would move that we approve the elementary collaboration and planning time calendar for the purposes of
087working on act 20. I have a second on that. I'll second that. Second by Mr. Shaw. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. Say nay. And those are passed. Thank you, Mr. Bowman. 4K conferences. 4K conferences. Do we need We need to move that. Oh, okay. Yeah. Do we need to move that amend the calendar? Yeah. Okay. So, we have a second on the 4K conferences. Sure. So, you're taking that as a motion. I'm taking you as a second. Second by Mr. All right. Any discussion on that? We have to do it because it changes the calendar. All those in favor say I. I. Say nay. And we are good with that one. Think that's it for curriculum. Mr. Shaw, you have the baseball field proclamation. I do. I don't have a
088proclamation. The superintendent does. But here's here's why we're doing this tonight. when the board approved the renaming of the municipal field to Steinreer field able president Ael at that point the motion went through and there was no set date as to when the actual naming was to take place um with the the u field being totally renovated ready for next year um we need as a board to officially by policy State a time and a date when the field is becoming the Bruce Steinbecker uh baseball complex, Manuel Public School District, home of the ships or ship builders, however it may state. So, we need to set that in motion and it needs to be done because literature has to be done. Schedules have to be out. It has to go in to the public with
089the new name. And as Mr. Dable said during his presidency, he didn't want to take the term and the time to state that date. It would be up to uh the coach to solidify that date. And in conversation with him, the end of the official Manitoba public school district date for baseball is June 19th. So now the proclamation to set that so that all publicity, web pages, um any notoriety, anything will now after that date be named the Bruce Steinbecker um baseball field, home of the Manual Public Shift builders public school district. So Mr. Superintendent. Yes. So as you saw, there was a renaming uh proclamation that was drafted. Um and Mr. Shaw just asked me to um read the last couple stanzas uh so that the board knows what they're voting on as well
090as the community. So now there and there will be a formal formal proclamation by the board in the grand opening when the field comes this next spring. Okay. So now therefore, it be resolved that effective Thursday, June 19th, 2025, the Manatwalk Public School District Board of Education hereby proclaims that Municipal Field shall be renamed Bruce Steinbecker Field in recognition of his exceptional service and the lasting impact that he's made on our schools, our students, and our community. Let this field serve as a living tribute. A place where excellence in education and athletics are celebrated and where the spirit of mentorship, teamwork, and community continues to grow for generations to come. This would be adopted on this 10th day of June, 2025 by the Natawak Public School District Board of Education. We don't It's Yeah, it's
091just the notification. You really don't need a motion. That's We probably should. Unless you would. So I make a motion that that proclamation for today be set into place. I have a motion for Mr. Shaw and I will second this. Okay. Any discussion? Everything going well, Michael? Good. All those in favor say I. Oppos say nay. And it is done. All right, the remarks from the board press. Ellie has guaranteed us it is not going to rain Friday. It will not rain Friday. She guarantees that it rain. Um I got to tell you, I was very impressed. I sent a a note to um Mr. Heler, the principal at Franklin. Oh yeah. Franklin receiving an award. What was that award? Yeah. So basically it's an award of distinction which uh because of uh Franklin's growth
092in student uh achievement uh it really is comparing us against other uh schools that have the same uh socioeconomic um numbers that Franklin has. And so Franklin has grown uh better than its comparable schools. Uh so that was uh quite the celebration we received and uh uh we'll be sending that out and about. So congratulations to the staff and uh leadership at Franklin for a job well done. That's what I liked. I I sent him a congratulations email and he put all the credit on his staff which you like to see from the leader of the building and uh that says a lot for for Mr. Heler. So, I appreciate that's why they're good. Yeah. So, that's good to know. Um, just something to think about and get back to me with a thought. We
093have as a board got emails recently about different issues and I'm trying to think of a a you know, is it okay for everybody to respond individually or should we try to keep it a little bit more under control when we do that or just think about it, run it through your head a couple times. You know, it's kind of weird when they will email and then they get responses from everybody and they might not feel satisfied because we're all kind of different and and so think it over and let me know what you think. Um cuz again, we're trying to, you know, trying to get it down to what can we do to make the district better and get it going in the right direction. You can't be indifferent though to those things. No,
094no, not at all. Not at all. I just I'm trying to think of a good way to respond that that doesn't give you know seven different especially when it's an issue that we don't necessarily have purview and they've not gone to the people that do have some choice and some ruling in that area. We should not respond to that. Yeah, I can go call Mr. Tennis to Siri and she does that right away. you know, but but you know, there's just just to think of a way that I don't want to put squash anybody's uh feeling on any issue, but I just I also don't want to leave that person with seven different right things that they're getting. There's a way. Yeah. In that case, did did for the example we're talking about, did that
095individual get a phone response? Some were on factf finding missions. Others I called and I I don't know if Michael called that gentleman on that the rental with him on Friday for about an hour and a half satisfied. Okay. But those are that's just something to think about. Really can't discuss it because it's not on the agenda. Think about it. You know, we got to find we got to find a different way than getting separate seven different answers. So that just it's going to hurt. So other than that, we'll see you Friday because Ellie's right at Lincoln's graduation. Yeah, it dropped to 40%. Yes, during this meeting. During the meeting. All right. Um, we have no special meeting scheduled for June. I don't think we're going to need one. And uh so enjoy June. This
096meeting wasn't special. No, I make a motion. We got to go in close. So the board will now vote to convene in close session for the reason of considering the following matter concerning with legal counsel for the governmental body who is rendering an oral and written advice concerning strategy to be adopted by the body with respect to litigation which is like is is or is likely to become the board will become involved. This meeting is authorized pursuant to section 19.811G 811G of Wisconsin statutes and we got to do this closed session by roll call vote. Do I have a motion to go into close session? So moved. Mr. Do I have a second? Mr. Shaw and Lori, please do the roll call. Mr. Pel, I. David Bowman. Hi. Hi. Thank you. Hi. Mary Wolfy Blanik.
097Hi. Keith Shaw. Hi. Hi. So we are in close session as soon Sure. [Music]