001[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, Heat. [Music] Hey. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] I don't need to read. Yeah, probably. [Music] bad. Keep on task. I'd like to call this meeting of you. Thank you. We'd like to call this April meeting. I didn't my teacher voice of the board of education to order and we begin this evening. I'm very happy to say with the pledge of allegiance being led by the Jackson Elementary K. So if everyone please stand to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for letting us be here. Wait, guys, you're here for a little bit. I just want to take
002like one minute and introduce um Jackson fifth graders. So, these are 11 of our 19K kids at Jackson. So, if we start with Corbett, can you guys just go down and introduce yourself? My name is Chan Shimick. My name is Ella Lambert. My name is Maline Ro. My name is Grace Lee. My name is Josie Jenkins. My name is Reese Peterson. My name is Holly. I'm Kaitlyn. My name is Hey, thanks for coming. Just a couple things that like I said, we have 19 fifth graders this year in our K kids group. Um we have these amazing leaders here that have been doing it for 25 years now. So helping um we have an advisor through the Golden K Nana talk. His name is John Jacobs. Um so Sherry and Mary Ellen meet every Tuesday
003morning before school starts with their kids. Some of the things that they have worked on this year are they are pen pals with retired teachers. Um they write staff appreciation notes throughout the year. They um do different warming shelter projects. So, some of the things they've done is taking crew socks and protein bars, um different warming shel shelters around the communities, Christmas stockings stuffed with different items. Um currently we are are having a heart sucker sale and all of those proceeds go to Hardarama. Um so it's always cool to be at Hardama and hear Jackson name over be announced. They have raised over $11,000, which is amazing. Like I said, it all goes over the years, all goes through to her. Um, and this year we are having a plant sale in May and all
004proceeds for that are going to go to Gumby's Love for the Cure. So, thank you for having us. Thank you. Awesome. All right. S please take the role. Christopher Ael here. Hansen here. Matthew Phips present. Keith Shaw here. Matthew Spaldley here. Harry Tr. Thank you. Thank you. Next up we do have public input. You are always invited to address board on matters of board concerns during public input. So I have several requests here and I'll take them in the order they were received. We'll start with Lisa Crater. Thank you for this opportunity and I want to thank Matthew Spalding, Matthew Bibson and Tony for your dedication and service to our community these last three years. Um, a few parents have come to me regarding Riverview Pool and we really feel that it should be saved.
005This is our the only elementary pool in the school district. It's the only zero degree entry pool in the district, which means, you know, anybody with special needs or young kids. It's not a barrier to try to learn how to get in the pool. It'll be available to all schools in the district. The boiler is used and taken from the Washington Middle School. It breaks frequently, and the longer it is broken, the more other things can go wrong with it. If it remains broken, it is in danger, we feel, of being closed indefinitely. The rec department uses it for swim lessons. This pool is on the facilities committee list of items to be fixed. Please make this pool a high priority. Kids get excited about swimming only to have it consistently canceled due to broken
006parts or lack of lifeguards. This is very frustrating to the kids, teachers, and parents. Swimming is a wonderful opportunity for kids in our district. Please save the Riverview pool. Thank you. Thanks. Next we have farmer post 85 Wilson Street manalk. I want to say thank you people that ran for the school board and for the proposal that was passed. I would like to talk about inclusion, behavior, and freedom. Education, business is a very challenging puzzle. Shortcuts may save time, but bring big cost if they don't fit just right. Because of the missing pieces, we as a community are paying the price now. But our students and children have paid the biggest price because all were not welcome at the table when they should have been welcome. All must have a seat at that table with
007their peers with no exceptions. I explained this numerous times. You can go on the YouTube page and see. I came forward to speak for the people that have no voice. speaking on full and true inclusion and the behavior problem that MPSD has had for a very long time. I spent 25 years working within a hodgepodge system with no one following the system protocol for inclusion and behavior. There was total disregard. Finally, last week during the director's report, I heard the word proactive instead of reactive. A point which I have stressed numerous times during work at MPST and also when I came forward to this board with that problem address board. This tells me that someone finally listening. I also heard strategies and documentation. Strategies to myself means modification instead of frustration. This may not mean
008a lot to you, but to an educator and a student, that is gold. It means that there is communication and collaboration happening. This gives me hope that some new or old may have been opened and maybe a new nurturing, empathetic, and embracing environment. We've all had this problem for as long as I can remember. We were all trained, but some just gave up and chose different avenues. They lost the team protocol of concept. Remember team today everyone's attitude matters not together everyone achieves more. There was also a question of cultural scorecard brought up during the direct report. I think I can clarify that a bit because I worked with that students not being understood and being test treated differently. Not every unders stands that different cultures and unique students need to be acclimated to things
009in order to be successful in a new learning environment. I dealt with lots of children that came I dealt with the refugee children and they were hard to deal with but had to give them time and space and a lot of people didn't want to give them that time and space. They wanted them in the classroom. and they wanted them achieving right away and you just don't get an achievement on that right away. You need they needed to be embraced in a gentle caring manner so they will not be afraid to transition. As a public school district we should welcome all another student at the table. We are all unique and want to learn and work in a positive environment. Now on another note, I do not believe that I have ever addressed this before.
010Addiction and the mana, it's in crisis mode. I bring this up for many reasons because April is child abuse prevention month and alcoholware awareness month. Manwalk has 13 rehabs, more than the total of number of manfuck public schools. I bring this up because we have young, vulnerable people that may be in a situation. They are faced with making a very tough on the spot decision. We need as a community to be awake and inform them of what kind of choices they may be confronted with. They just can't rely on friends or their phone for advice. Listen to what they're seeing. Read their body language. If you listen closely, you will hear the students converse on the subject, usually alcohol and now vaping. They are and have been readily available everywhere. Do we still have alcohol
011and drug rules for sports teams with no exceptions? Break the rules, no play for you, or is that circumvented because we can't take another chance on losing the game? Be aware of what you are role modeling for students. We may enjoy a favorite beverage routinely and now we have CDB CD CBD and vapes and there that's all available. These indulgence are everywhere at home in the grocery store in the bars. We have paddle pubs. Alcohol is at every cultural and community event. So are students and kids. There is no separation. People used to wait until kids were tucked in bed or go to a sitter. Now they sit while the parents or the caregivers ingest and the kids figure out why not them. They want to feel good too. So many lives have been shortch
012changed by actions they never truly understood. No one thought there was any problem. It's what we've always done. A right of life. Time is in time is in crisis mode. We can't lose more people. We cannot say not my problem. People work here and then most leave and we we are left with the carnage. Acceptance of true or full inclusion would help to alleviate this problem because no one is left without support in a team environment. Remember today's everyone's attitude matters. We are responsible for what we do and say. And to me, remember I told you that public school to me means public united universally because learning literacy is critical. Thank you for your time and I really hope the message keeps growing because we're losing so many people. I just heard your sixyear-old girl
013died at Cheetah from Manito. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next we have Braden Meyer. Between 2022 and 2024, the Manto Public School District set sail in the right direction for the first time in years. Enraged by poorly thoughtout COVID policies, voters took to the polls to express their disapproval by voting in three new board members to get our district back to normal. And those board members did. This was made possible through the hiring of an effective assistant superintendent and superintendent. In 2024, when the school board flipped to a progressive majority, the work began to immediately reverse what they had accomplished. To look over the past year, the school board and the Manto Public School District lost $200,000 on the C. only twothirds of the costs are reimbursed. Lost $4.48 million on over staffing
014over the past two years. Voted against closing central office and moving their operations into the schools, which would have saved $1 million per year. Denied the three-phase facilities plan last summer. This would have begun to fix our facilities needs last year and saved taxpayers $1 million by the end of this school year. Instead, the school board rushed to put a referendum on the ballot within a week with the minimum required notification and engagement with the public. Twice attended to give board members a salary, kept all boys aren't blue in Lincoln High School's library among other sexually explicit books in there and other school libraries. Voted down an amendment to their library plan that would keep pornography materials out of the hands of children. Brought the idea inclusivity, diversity, equity alliance called back to Wilson Middle
015School. This was a DEI club disbanded under the guidance of the former superintendent. Brought back pride fights materials and classrooms and allowed in staff holding along with special interest group materials in Lincoln High School and Wilson Middle School. Approved a social emotional learning component to be added into the district's law. Removed the parental bill of rights. Took away schoolboard member key fobs in an effort to keep conservative schoolware members out of the school so they don't see what is truly unfair. attempted to replace policy wording from nursing mothers to lactine employees. Voted to put the executive committee in charge of the superintendent search, leaving out three of seven board members. The board also waited too long to begin the search, possibly resulting in lost quality candidates. Voted to eliminate the third year of success for
016all's contract, the first K through8 reading curriculum to dramatically improve district-wide reading scores in years with no alternative being voted on at that time and there is still not one in place. One being looked at was the same in 2023 QTM movement hardc court which has a DEI statement on its website. The reason used for eliminating SFA was its cost even though the previous curriculum Lucy Caukins produced inadequate results with millions poured into it and left our district with 30% reforce at the end of the 2022 through 2023 school year. If a curriculum is working, it does not need replacement and is worth spending a little more on, especially when the results are as big as they have been. As board members, all seven of you have received constant demands from many leftwing special interest
017groups like Ally, the extremely partisan legal borders. There's never been a group as partisan as them, Pike, the National Education Association along with their state and local equivalents and others. All these groups share members in the same beliefs as they operate under the Democratic Party of which this board will soon be operated by Ben Farland members of. When you don't give into their demands, they spew hate and malign you. These activists don't just have TDS, they have M for LDS, moms for liberty derangement syndrome. They've possess an irrational fear of common sense policies that would positively impact all stakeholders of the district regardless of personal and political beliefs. It is clear the Mano public school district is heading in the wrong direction. All in all, I would like to thank board members Tony Buttap, Matthew
018Spoding, and Matthew Biffs for your tireless work over the past three years. You didn't deserve an ounce of hate and should be proud of what you got to accomplish with the little time you were given to implement your vision. Thank you for everything you've done. Your positive your positive impact on the district will be remembered for years. Thank you. Thank you. And last I have Sarah Wyberg. All right. Sarah Lyenberg, president of the Manto Education Association. I just want to say thank you Matt, Matt, and Tony uh for your service man to care about the man public school district. Thank you. Thank you. I don't have any other requests. Does anybody else going once going twice? I will hear close public input and we will move on to the consent agenda. You see the consent
019agenda there before you with I don't know how many letters I goes up to but a few items on there like a countdown. Is there anything like remove from the consent agenda? of the issue uh the D personnel report and then um do we need to to talk about the commemoration of school facilities change we made or just leave that go with the comment during your yeah I'll report on it um that part of the consent agenda isn't it well the approval is the approval of it but the report out from his committee so just a personel okay so just the personnel report. Anything else? Anything else? So, so I would be looking for a motion and a second to approve everything except D, the personnel report from the consent agenda. Do I have such
020a motion? I have a motion. Do I have a second? I have a second. Did you get those? Okay, great. All right. All those in favor signify by saying I. Post say nay. Hearing none, those are all approved. We will now immediately take a look [Music] at 5D, the personnel report, and I'll open it up to you, Mr. My Internet's going really slow. Either way, it doesn't matter. I looked at it before. There was like um 14 resignations on there and and I know at least two of the retirements were of years of service that's don't show that what's going on. That's abnormally large amount of resations. I I haven't seen that many on a month in a while. Yeah. I don't I don't know. I I looked at it too and I went, "Oh,
021wow." You know? Yeah. Um, I don't think there's anything that really jumps out at us that has been brought to my attention anyway. Um, but we've had, when you look at this past year, our paraprofessional group probably had the most coming of any group. Our teacher group has been pretty pretty good. Couple teachers left us during the year. Um, administrative team, we didn't lose anybody. Our custodial maintenance team is probably powerful of course, but um our parent group has been coming and going. Yeah. Why exactly? This is from custodians all the way to principal. I mean I just it was a pretty wide group and I mean I just thought maybe you might had some some kind of idea. I'm sure it's not because they're so heartbroken that we didn't run again. One of them's
022here right now. Difficult. It's a tough career. Yeah. It can be very challenging depending on space and number of students. It's a lot of factors. What what was what was the factor personally? I mean space uh program accommodations possibly uh lack of movement in the district. For myself I teach teched so it's a very big industrial kind of space I guess you could say. I teach a lot of construction and uh just CTE type curriculum. So, it's a little bit different in my perspective, but but it's it's a it's good. It's a good perspective though because right now this is one of the things that we want to push. We're trying to push for using financing and things like that. And me as a person in the trades, I I mean I would want to
023push for that as well too. So, well, this is a big opportunity for you to fix something without having any worries. It's hard. It's uh many different reasons, but I mean uh I work with a lot of great individuals and I have over the years, but uh I see the stress that they deal with on a regular basis. And uh I feel like I coworker says to me at one point, he says, "Well, in your future endeavors, I don't think you're going to feel like you're wound tight." Um there's a lot of times where we're constantly looking over our shoulders, uh just dealing with behavioral issues. Um, and uh, facility improvements are uh, kind of a long ways out for myself. I know where the district is on their budget and where it's headed. And
024it's going to be probably 8 10 years before I see a major improvement in my section of where I teach in my particular classrooms and everything. And I wanted to see a lot of more movement there myself uh, faster, but I know that just doesn't happen overnight. And I don't foresee that to happen for 8 to 10 years where we're actually a program that should be where it is. Uh it's not going to be for another 8 to 10 years. I don't think so. Uh personally, I look at that and I'm struggling in my space because of I can't teach the curriculum I always want to teach based on facility. We just don't have the footprint that we need in teched at the high school level to teach the skill sets that should be taught
025or the equipment type is that curriculum we can buy or I mean equipment we can buy we have money to buy equipment we have nowhere to put equipment uh we need a bigger footprint but that isn't going to happen for 8 to 10 years I don't see it's going to be a whole another referendum before that happens so we never ever get the opportunity to here at a board meeting future that is part of that list. So take notes. This is something that you want to this an opportunity just say something. No, unfortunately you can't. I just thank you. Any any other questions for Mike before mine? No. Forgive my ignorance, but names for positions keep changing at a rate that makes it difficult for remember what job is what. So, instructional support teacher position
026top of page two. Instructional support teacher is the current equivalent of what before we had SFA facilitators and those pos those positions went for the most part to instructional support teachers people that are trying to build capacity with our teachers remember um I can't remember what remember the high number of people we have within the first five years seven years in our district and our intent is to try to build capacity and best practice with those people for our sake of our student achievement right right I I know we also had the uh people that were part SFA are behavior. Yeah. SFA teacherinterventionist. Yeah. And those positions are going to be student support teachers. Student support. Okay. Thank you. I'm I'm just trying. Right. At some point it'll lock in there and you'll change the
027name positions on me again. So that's just accept. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. I appreciate that. Okay. If there's nothing further, I would be looking for a motion and a second to accept the report. So move. We accept the accept the personnel report. Okay, we have a motion. Mr. Shaw, will you second? So we have a motion and a second. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Opposed? Hearing none, that closes out the consent agenda and we move on to the always fascinating student representative. Yeah. Well, I don't have too much this time, unfortunately, but we had some of our FBA members qualify for nationals in California, so that was very exciting for them. Um, we ran our schoolboard candidate forum, student senate ran that two weeks ago, maybe. Um, it was
028very successful, probably our best one yet. And this is something we hope to continue for as long as possible every year. And then my last thing is that prom is fundraising at Panera tomorrow. So go to Panera and tell them you're there for prom. What do they do when I do that? You get a bouquet. Oh, you get part of the proceeds. So that's all I got. Thank you. Yeah. All right. This could what they need is a bunch of old guys going in there saying, "I'm here for prom." Yeah, sure. That won't be a problem in any way, shape, or form. Money is money. I will now turn it over to the superintendent for the interim superintendent report. Thank you. Um, and thanks everyone for being here tonight. Um, I do have a couple
029special guests here. uh to for our learning showcase this month. This is a collaborative project that took place between Jefferson Elementary School and Lincoln High School. And I have uh principal Lisa Delman here to introduce our guests and just walk the board and community through this really neat collaborative project. Um so this is Kelly Gage. He is kindergarten teacher at Jefferson. Kyle Wagner. Um, Ed, I was gonna say Woods, not appropriate. Tech Ed at Lincoln. Um, so Kelly filled out the Cobra Fund grant last year. She was awarded the money. Um, we have an outdoor learning center at Riverview. Please, let's go back to the school. Jefferson the nerves at Jefferson. Sorry, at Jefferson. Um, that are primarily right now used by our kindergarten, first and second graders. um our vision is to make it
030bigger. Um our kids absolutely love it. So she had a vision. Um and I'll let her talk about that vision. Yeah. Um we started the um when I came to Jefferson, our team um started the outdoor learning classroom to enhance the green space there so that our young learners could learn. I applied for the Cooper Grant Fund this past year and was able to purchase rakes for children to interact with. We have some video of fun things they're doing. Um, and also uh then uh some uh a lot of money for building projects to help enhance the kitchen area where children are able to um learn about volume and use their creative abilities for um manipulating sand and making mud pies and things like that. So, uh, they needed a space to set that and
031we were able to work with Kyle on and his kids designed the tables that are going to be at that space. So, yeah. So, it's kind of nice. Uh, it was a good project. She came to me and I had the advanced woodworking students who were kind of we like to start that class with kind of a skilluer kind of a project. Sometimes the skilluers take longer than we anticipate, but uh nonetheless uh it's been a lot of fun and the students have been able to take a lot out of it and uh knowing that these tables are going to be going to a good cause has been kind of a fun uh aspect to kind of throw at them and we kind of really deliberated between the whole group kind of what we wanted
032them to look like. Uh so we thought about she kind of proposed some rough dimensions for us to go off of. taught a lot of CAD working skills where we designed it virtually. All the students made the same design after we kind of did a group discussion on what we wanted it to look like. And then uh these are coming to fruition right right now. I'm thinking next week we should have all of these out at Jefferson uh once they last couple tweaks that we're finishing up on them. So, some easy doors on them, some quick latches, little uh the students can play with that. Maybe I don't know if they they store balls or whatnot inside these little cabinets, but they're nice low height tables that are all treated lumber and that presented many
033challenges for some of our students as well. So, it's been a good project. So, uh time sake, we don't want to be here till 9:00 with you all. Sorry, it's been a long day. We made um a slideshow. We know you did that ahead of time. take your time. There is um video of our kindergarteners out in our outdoor learning center talking to you because bringing little kindergarteners is a little late for them, but they wanted to share what they're learning. So um it's like a seven minute video, but they were super passionate about that. Um and then we do have a video from some of Kyle's kids talking about the connection between Lincoln to Jefferson and how valuable that is. Um, personally from somebody that taught at Lincoln, it I would much rather take
034the money that this district has that we are using to buy things and put it back in our district to teach our students whatever that skill is. So, working with Kyle, we are teaching our Lincoln kids the CAD, the treated lumber, and they got ownership on that project and now they have ownership to help out Jefferson and just that connection and that full circle to me is very important. Um, so their video is like it's amazing the Lincoln kids that they they just have that connection and then you'll just see lots of smiling faces which will make you happy. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. It's a great example of uh our core value collaboration on display for us here to see Dick. So, thanks again. Um, you have my written report. I'll
035just highlight a couple of things on here and then take any questions anyone has. Um the spring election update. Um I would just like to publicly and on behalf of the district uh and the board thank uh our community for supporting our school district um with the 60% majority giving us permission to borrow some very needed capital uh to help take care of some critical maintenance and safety issues in our district. um that showing of support was um ex we're extremely appreciative of that level of support uh from our community. Um additionally, we will welcoming uh three new school board members, David Bowman, Annne Holen, and Mary Lafi Blanik. Uh we look forward to working with them here um starting at the end of the month. U and we would also like to take the
036time uh and opportunity to sincerely thank Mr. Fipps, Mr. Spalding, and Mr. Stellica for their service to the Manatawit public school district and our community. Um, and at this time we actually have some um certificates of recognition that Mr. Ael will distribute. You take one of them at the same time. The U certificates are in recognition. Is there a commendation uh in recognition uh for your service to the children in the Wisconsin public school system particularly in Manitwalk from April 22 to April 25. We thank you for your service. [Applause] once again had an opportunity to participate in the mock interviews at Lincoln High School. They do this in the fall in the spring. I saw Carrie there. I don't know if anyone had to. They're two days so I don't know if anyone else
037on the board had a chance to do that. Uh but they do a fantastic job of giving our kids an opportunity to really practice those skills necessary to go out and get a job. Um, I will say I had four students that I interviewed. They were all so phenomenally interesting. I had one that wanted, this is no joke. First first student I interviewed, he wants to be a history teacher and go to Northern Michigan University. And I said, you must know that I was a history teacher who went to Northern Michigan University. So, I mean, it turned in more into a really fun conversation. So, you would have hired him right away. Yeah. Right. Right away. Um, I had a student also who did his research. Yeah, he did. He did. He picked the right
038guy. Yeah, he uh I had another student who is one of our YA students who's working at a jewelry store in town actually doing some very impressive work on repairing jewelry and he wants to be a jeweler and a repairer of that. And he's getting these skills and it's really kind of neat because talking to him about his vision and he wants to start his own store someday. he's working sort of as an apprentice under someone who's done it for many years. Um so just just phenomenal uh opportunity to to interact with our students who are very uh talented and committed in their own right. Um the other uh facility advisory committee update uh when we have our next uh facility and finance committee meeting uh we will have uh Mr. Packer who is our
039owner rep who has been helping us from cadence consultant facilitate our staff and community facilities groups come to give a report. We have about one quarter uh of our work completed uh and he's going to come and give a report to the to the committee on where we've been, where we are, and where we're headed over the next few months. Um in addition to that, um Mr. Schwarz and I have already met uh to begin working on a document that we're also going to share with the committee uh that will prioritize what projects from our referendum uh capital will uh be uh focused on for this summer uh and next summer. So, these will be priority prioritized list from our original list that will uh give the board an update as to where we'll be
040headed on projects uh this summer. So, I thank Mr. Schwarz uh for his work on that. Um, last thing I'll just talk about and again if there's questions on any of the other written things. Um, I just have to say that I'm so uh grateful for our faculty and staff who volunteer essentially to be part of some of the committee works that we're doing and giving their voice. Um we started earlier this year a public relations advisory committee uh that's been re working really hard to um not only give great suggestions of how we can share the great things that we're doing in our district with the rest of our community uh but also working on real issues um as you well know uh the trend in the last 5 to seven years has been
041that we've been losing some students to other districts and other schools. Uh you are also aware that in January I sent a letter to every family who either open and rolls in or out uh saying hey we want your feedback. Um at our last meeting of the public relations advisory committee uh we took a look at several things including a very detailed look at the results of those surveys and members of the committee were able to share with us um things that they were seeing in the data. We call them like kind of like when I used to teach history, we call for immigration push and pull factors. Uh well, those same things are at play. Uh when we're talking about where families are are choosing to send their their kids to school. So we've
042had a this is really this will be like a three meeting process but the goal of which is for this committee to help our team uh devise goals and specific strategic plans around how we get more of students back in our district. Uh so you will see them uh in either the month of June or July depending on when we get the work done. There will be members of that group that will come uh specifically uh to the committee and the board to share uh their findings and our plans for the future. Um and that's all I have. Anybody has any questions? You already got out of the way. Got a couple. Thanks. Thank you. We will then go on to the director's report. You have the director's report before you. Normally you guys don't
043speak to it. You answer questions. Is that your plan this evening as usual? Okay. Any questions for the directors? I do. Thank you. Thank you, directors, for the report. But Heidi, I saw on your report that we have taken state and districtwide assessment tests. Is that correct? Do you have a report on the percentage of students? I know we've been uh working every year to try to increase that percentage of students that actually take that test. Do you have do you have that information yet as to what our percentage was at the high school that took those tests? I can't answer that. Um, we will know soon. We're in the currently in the process of makeup testing right now. Um, so I know pre-makeup test Lincoln was already at about 94%. Awesome. Um, and the
044the preac just happened last Tuesday. That's about 700 students testing. So the makeup process is a little bit more elaborate. Um, so the team is working hard on that. Cody, assistant principles running the rise to a nice job. Well, that was pretty recent. Thank you. Yeah, that's it. I don't have any more questions. Anyone else? Uh, seeing none, we will move on to unfinished business of which there is none. So, we move on to new business. New business. Under new business, the first thing is the report from the personnel and policy committee chair, Mr. Hansen. We had a short meeting and we had two two changes to the policies. Uh policy 4210 was support staff ethics and it came down to there was a line that said um support staff will refrain from using their
045position or public property. We change refrain to shall not. It was just a way to to say that. um to make sure that that doesn't happen. The other issue that uh we discussed quite a bit was the um naming rights for facilities in the district and and um we've had this situation a few times. The gentleman who came in and made a donation to the baseball uh field that we appreciate. Um I'm not sure as a district if we've ever had a procedure to do that. Um, so we looked at the policy and we took out that they had to be deceased or they could not be a working member of the district. We took that out of the policy. Um, but what we included was that when somebody comes forward from this point on
046and wants to do something like this, they're going to have to meet with the executive committee and the superintendent. Um so that committee and the super can make some decisions on whether or not it's valid and we should proceed with it and then they will report to the full board to have a vote on that um donation that would be made. Um, the other thing we did is we clarified that I re received some phone calls and some public input from people that wanted the stadium named after a different coach and and I think all of us that have gone through, you know, coaches that have influenced us and I appreciate that feeling. Um, so there are opportunities in the example of baseball. that was very good coach back in the 70s, Mr. Grant who
047coached football and baseball. And there was another good coach through the 80s and and some of the 90s, uh, Coach Mann who did a great job. There are opportunities within the baseball field within Rubik Stadium. Um, we now have a wrestling room at the high school named after coach Kazowski who was there. There will be other there will be other opportunities. um if something isn't named after you to take something within that facility and possibly put a name on it um to honor other coaches and other people in the district. And it doesn't just have to be athletics. It could be the arts and different parts of the building. But just to take a look at the procedure that we go through to accept that money and okay who that stadium is being named after,
048we'll become a little more more informal by going through the executive committee with help from the superintendent and they will re make a recommendation to the board. Um, is that clear? Sometimes I screw things up and don't say them well. But um, so it that's our policy for the future. That's what you uh did tonight. We appreciate your support on that. It came out of committee unanimous. So, uh I think it'll work. I I can't recall, but does the policy um at least discourage if not prohibit like tacky uh contributions sort of attempts to to to to get things named after them after themselves. What it does is it puts it through the executive and that that's that's the screening process you're talking about. Um, not that we've had that before, but we understand that
049could happen. So, that's why we wanted to make that a little bit more formal, too. And the other thing it will give it an opportunity to is when somebody comes through with a proposal that they would like to do something that becomes public knowledge a little sooner. And then you know like in the case of some situations we've had um sometimes there are other people that are interested to say hey you know could you could you make that the Spalding FIPS track you know I like but you know where where people could step forward second yes um where people could come forward and say hey you know he's a great coach and we love him right now but then there was this guy. So that gives that opportunity for those type of things to become
050public, right, and open it up a little bit. So we're hoping this works and we can always change it sometime down the road if it doesn't. So it remains our decision. But I think as as we go on with the building reclamation and refurbishing project which will stretch into, you know, a dozen or more years um there'll be temptations, I think, to want to want to raise money, you know, extra sort of outside the the normal processes of acquiring revenue to So I I Yeah, I it would have to be to accept that name. it would have to be go through the board accepted by the board. So, it's going to go through the committee and they get accepted. One thing I didn't mention that that um is important is if you look at if
051you look at JFK Fieldhouse after the renovation and there were names of of companies on the floor and you look at Rubic field and there's names of of different uh companies from the area on the turf. Um that still will happen. Sure. It's just that we won't take a a complete facility and name it after a company. Um, it'll be named after an educator or something. So, that's, you know, still there. It's just going to be more formalized. And that's it. Cool. Thank you. That's why I went out and got myself NIL representation. Okay. All right. Moving on to committee report. Do we have to accept that? It's already been voted up. Oh yeah. Okay. The report out from the curriculum and instruction committee from chairman. Uh a a lot of things are kind of
052ripening up right now. And what's happening is that we're getting a lot of curriculum development that that kind of normalizes or or you know um u gives us gives us real consistency from school to school from year to year you know so that um and you've already voted on the approval of the a ELA and the world language proposals and um the uh pretty elaborate social studies curriculum proposal. We we moved that forward to the 30-day review approval of uh uh um part. Um and uh we also had a report on summer school um which is which is really changing back to being a a much more open uh much more creative much more like boy kids want to kids want to come to summer school now and in the very first day we had
053a 131 students sign up for summer school and I I think that's probably gone up since right yes it has yes it has much um it was actually 209 on the first day. Oh, it was okay. Yes, it was. And we now have 321 students signing. Is there anything you want to add to that? I mean, I think this is a really positive development. Yeah, I'm I'm really excited about just having it be more diverse and hands-on and engaging. Um, one of the things I love about summer school is we have a chance to extend the school year for kids, but we also can really just focus in more on that level of learning and getting kids in during the school year. Sometimes it's hard to squeak enough social studies and science minutes in for
054elementary. So, to be able to focus more on those kinds of things in the summer is very it's very fun and engaging for kids. So, that's good. That's good news. Um, and the other thing that that I think is really really encouraging is is that um in terms of one of the big issues you all recall on the on the on the staff survey that there was a lot of positive stuff a lot of positive affirmative sort of um spirits are picking up you know people people really want us want to stay with public schools and etc etc but on the negative side there was a there was a a continuation of of concerns and and and complaints about um way too much disruptive behavior by students. And we've had that kind of in the
055we've had that kind of in the works for some time now. And um we had the ad hoc committee that you know really developed guidelines and and that and uh the new um the the new the new program that was in the fall. And as a result, we have we have really encouraging encouraging results in terms of the data on all of this. First of all, most of the most of the most of them disruptive behavior. Uh you know, two years ago was in third grade, sixth grade, se fifth grade, 7th and 9th. Um and this year third grade is doing okay. five, six, seven, eight, nine. So, it's it's really in those squirrely years of the transition from being children to being to being full adolescence. And uh what's good is what's really good
056and what's really which is really encouraging is that um only 5.5% of the students are involved in you know are involved in in in in the in in the problem and uh the data so far shows that discipline is actually re an improving area of our of our of our institutional culture. So, we're we may have moved the needle. Well, we have moved the needle and that may be just the beginning of a a a change to much much better decorum and much better much better learning environment. Are we going to talk about this anymore tonight? Do you want to do you want to say something? Sure. I gladly can. Um, so you should have a summary sheet. It's a I was hoping for a one sheeter, but it's more of a two sheeter. Um,
057and you know, Mana just asked that I share um maybe some highlights in a summary from the larger presentation uh at our curriculum committee meeting. So, you'll see there's some disagregated data there, some from Infinite Campus, which is our own internal system where we are documenting behavioral incidents. Those things can be anywhere from a detention or a teacher intervention to a suspension to a OSS ISS all of all of our own internal data. So you'll see those numbers um comparing last year to this year. And I did have um it wasn't the most apples to apples comparison. Um, so I did go in and break down what our totals were at the end of third quarter last year to third quarter this year because we're not quite at our end of year to give you
058a little bit more comparable um data there to look at and then listed like Carrie referenced, you know, where the most frequent referral types are grade levels or referral types and incidents are happening at. Um, and then our most common incident types are listed there as well for the last two school years. um which some where there are some consistencies in those types um and then we just added in appropriate language to this year. So the beauty of being able to evaluate this data is that challenging behaviors are, you know, they continue to be an issue and and perception is reality. And like Carrie said, though it is a small percent of our total school population, 5.5% of our 4,000 children are are engaged in disciplinary removals or behavior that requires that we remove them
059from the learning environment because of the disruptive nature of that behavior. Um, even though it's a small percent of students, those behaviors are challenging and they're disruptive in nature. um and they require attention and intentional focus. So being able to say these are the types of things that we're looking at and this is what we're doing about it and going to continue to do about it just gives us an opportunity to focus because if you try to tackle all the things all the time um that gets really difficult. The state breaks down data you'll see in a little bit different manner. So they look at only out of school suspensions and inschool suspensions. And then we can disagregate by gender, um, disability status, socioeconomic status, all of those things. Um, something that stuck out is
060that our males are struggling as compared to our females. So again, that tells us, all right, we need to do some intentional work to support our male students. Um and and this just shows a trend that that's consistently been an issue. Um and then it also the state looks at repeat offenders. So the number of students who act who have three or more incidents behavioral referrals. So you see last year the total was 105 students engaged in um three or more incidents that required an out of school or an inschool suspension. this year at the end of third quarter we are at 32. So that shows that what we are doing um is is is helping those repeat offenders. And I'll credit the work of our elementary buildings um and it as some part of
061these notes down here talks about the implementation of getting along together which was a social emotional curriculum piece as part of SFA that has been implemented consistently across our elementary buildings for the last two years. And so that intentional focus and through those solution teams works we're focusing on teaching kills kids positive pro-social behaviors and we also have teacher teams who are targeting and building intervention plans to support those kids. So like Krie said we see that our third graders dropped off that list. So our elementary our elementary students are showing some making some progress and showing some gains. So knowing that there's the consistency and the stability in implementing that social emotional curriculum is is powerful. Um we also know that our documentation of behaviors in infinite campus the requirement to do so um
062is also could probably be attributing to those higher numbers. We're getting better at documenting. We're documenting more because we're using data to make our decisions. So so that's another piece of that. Um, and then we also know that our middle school and transition years, sixth grade, nth grade, and the years in between are difficult years for kids. So, how can we focus our efforts and attention on really positive middle school transition opportunities for students and in turn really positive transition opportunities for high school students because expectations at the middle school need to be explicitly taught as do them different expectations at the high school. So not back page um just gives a a summary of what we've done um and then where we're going for 2526. So um you know we have all staff reframing
063behavior ongoing training training. We partner with CISA 7 um which is helping us to build and continue to grow our multi-level system of support which is also known as another acronym in education and MLSS. Um, we have interventionists who both support student behaviors and academic achievement. We're in our second year of implementation of a district-wide social emotional learning curriculum through SFA and our team will be looking to find a replacement for that um in companion with our new ELA curriculum. Um, our our staff engage in nonviolent crisis intervention training, which talks about recognizing escalated behaviors and how to deescalate and then address situations. Um, we've invested in professional development opportunities for staff. Um, we have in we've we've started a new thing and these ladies are absolutely phenomenal. Um, we have transition pair professionals. We
064talked about during the personnel committee um our our inability really right now to our our transition pool is like a revolving door and it is because we have people that are trying out being a prayer professional for their first time and they don't really know what they're getting into. So how do we provide them with on the job coaching and on the job support? So we have transition paras who are experienced, they are relationship builders. They have tricks in their bag of tricks like you wouldn't believe and they have the flexibility as not tied to a building to go into buildings and be able to support when we have students transition in or there's challenging behaviors in there. Incredible ways. Um so that's been positive. Um we're hoping that that helps keep our keep our
065trans or our pair professional pool um in intact in place because we can't do our work without them. In fact, part of my director's report was that it was recently uh peer professional appreciation day, and they truly we truly would not be able to run our buildings without them. Um, we've also enhanced some of our off-site programming through a program called Revive, which is housed at the Stangle Building. Revive is an opportunity for students who are struggling in their traditional or homeschool setting because of behavior issues or disciplinary issues. Um they have an opportunity to go have a second chance at the Stangle building, work on some independent curriculum with a teacher who has an alternative teaching license, at risk teaching license. She supports students through decision-making skills as well as their academics. they stay
066connected with their school teams and then after a certain period of time as determined by the team then they go back to school. So, when we have kids that are, you know, engaging in behaviors like physical altercations or substance abuse issues, they have an opportunity to go to Revive um and work on some skills specific to their needs and then go, you know, hopefully the goal is to transition back to their school setting um without being involved in repeat offenses. Um and then we've met utilized our mental health dollars to help partner with some community partners to promote really some trouocial opportunities for kids. So we're going to continue all of that. Um again based on this data we know we'll be working with our middle school teams to talk about what we're doing for
067sixth grade as right now sixth grade um makes up more than half of our total referrals in the district. just that grade which was staggering when we uh looked into that information. So we need we know we need to target that group. Um so that will be a focus of our summer work with our middle school teams. We know our boys are in need of some targeted support. Um we're going to be looking at uh you know continuing the implementation of a targeted elementary social emotional program that see that hopefully will have the same positive impact as getting along together did. Um we're continuing our work on our multi-level systems of support which includes those teams that are writing plans for students who are struggling. Um continue professional development for students so that we can
068help our teachers especially the many new to the profession unlicensed teachers build their bag of tricks um in best practices in classroom management um relationship building supporting those challenging behaviors. So, how can we get our new teachers that support that they need? Um, improving the consistency and practices on our admin team. Those are things that we'll continue to work about um work on with that group. Coaching and modeling um so that we can help again have the most effective classroom teachers. Um, and then I'll be reporting this, which is super exciting, but you know, we talked about this a little bit, but we have uh and we've recently acquired a recovery high school grant. Um, so when substance abuse issues are a problem in a school, we we cannot have we cannot have drugs in
069our school. Um, we also know that children make big mistakes sometimes and how can we help them continue to pursue an education um without disrupting the safety of those learning environments. So through this recovery high school grant, which I'll be able to share more about in May, um we have the opportunity to increase programming for students who are removed from a traditional school setting um and receive support through AODA counselors while getting their education um in an environment where, you know, there's there's supports in place so that um we can focus on learning and education and hopefully stopping a pattern of behavior before it impacts them into adulthood. Um, also without having the ability to remove from a setting where, you know, they just don't have the opportunity to focus on those students like a
070big Lincoln High School. Um, we can put kids in a smaller setting where they have the efforts and attention and support that they need um without disrupting that environment with the goal of being able to get back there obviously. That's it. Thanks a lot. Thanks. Thanks for the comprehensive report. Sorry for the fast talk. It's okay. Oh, I don't I guess I have the floor so I can recognize you. Thank you, Mr. Trans Katie. This is a amazing report you just did. Thank you so much for the the change that I kind of asked for. Uh essentially, we had a committee meeting. uh to everybody that's here that didn't wasn't there. We had a committee meeting and I just asked for a few changes so that we could see apples to apples from last year
071uh through the third quarter before they had just all of last year and then they just had all this year up to the third quarter. So it wasn't apples apples. This this new report essentially it it shows it uh very clear. It does show that there's been more instances this year already. However, she articulated it very clearly and I believe that it's it's quite evident that you if you look through this report now, you can see why things are happening and and the breakdown. And I'm going to take us all down a little bit of a rabbit hole here, but this is very very important information and I think the trans the the information that we get on these reports is is very very important. However, everybody in the room here doesn't have those reports.
072They're just here listening to people talk. So, uh, what I think we should do, uh, what I would like to make a motion is that the director's reports and the superintendent reports are in physical print, uh, at the schoolboard meetings, uh, from now on in in an effort to be transparent to our community so that they can see that information because Katie worked her off to do a great job on this report. But if if what I felt in the past was sometimes people well if there's no questions I'm not going to do you know there's the report but it's it's in a computer document or we don't have the public seeing the report that it really kind of hinders the ability or the celebrations of how hard somebody worked on a report and I
073think she worked really really hard on this and I'd like to see that the people in the community could see these reports too that were pertaining to behavior one of our strategic plans mo uh parts of Our strategic plan is we're going to get our behaviors down. And I think that effort moving forward should just be everybody should see that we should be on the journey together, open and honest, you know, good, bad, and indifferent because everybody up here is trying to work hard to get everybody our students and our children at a higher level of of their education. But if we can't have that communication with the people and let the only other way you get it is if you do an open records request and then you're kind of following up and you
074don't really know where you're getting it. It's available to the public on the website and board book. It's all in the doc. Director's report. Everything is available. What? Okay. I like that motion. I like So really, I would just like a little bit of the director's report and the superintendent's report to be in print so that the audience can see that. I'll second uh just in the meetings as well. Okay. You have the floor. I know. You recognized it. you recognize. We got a motion. Mr. Spalding to second the motion. Yes, Mr. Spalding second on the motion. Is there discussion on the motion? Essentially, I just want to help the hard work be seen by the directors and the superintendent to the people that come to the meetings and I'd like to see uh that
075they can have a conversation alongside of us. not they're not going to be talking to the board members, but they can see the reports uh real time as and and it it's nice to have the extra things, but I think that's in the discretion of of the the directors and superintendent, but this report is an example of how, you know, this is very very important information that if you're an audience member, it's really hard to follow around unless you're taking notes. But yes, like you said, it is online. Yeah. And it's prior prior to I would just maybe do a friendly amendment to what you're saying that I think it's a good idea, but I I would also like the word out there that they can just pull it up on their phone or pull
076it up on whatever they're so we're not just printing blizzard. We should get a PR piece maybe like five public or 10 public just so we don't waste too much paper. Exactly. And that's why I'm thinking if we just we used to do that and I ended up throwing the majority of them recycling them. So that's why we have board book and that's why all the stuff is made in board book. I mean we'll do obviously whatever you whatever you choose but I was making copies and at the end of the meeting I was throwing most of them in the recycle. Maybe if there was an agenda on the agenda just a link electronic link at board book or wherever so they can it is on on the website all the documents are available. more
077people walk in. Oh yeah. Or be on there and they could. So thank you. It I think printing up right now we have about 15 people here. Print up five. All right. And should not be difficult to create a uh landing spot on the internet for the documents for that meeting. Have a QR code on a little placard on the table and people want to bring it up on their phone. Scan it. They've got it right there. So, we're never throwing away more than five copies. And if we need more than five, they just ask. We can we can make more pretty easily. I think I think it's a system. It would be something easily made up. No, I I I a long time to get a Are we are we question? Okay. All those
078in favor of the motion. I All those opposed. I just want to say before we close off on this that, you know, when I came on the board, honestly, I think it was it was kind of out of control and I remember Lisa and I talking about it and and and and most of the teachers most of the teachers in the district complaining about it and honestly, you know, it just it just lingered on and got worse during CO, etc., etc. But I think we're at a point right now where number one, we have we have we have directors now working on this problem who have reached an intellectual an intellectual a much better intellectual understanding of of the problem. I mean it always used to be just sort of like complaint and you know
079get tough etc etc. But not only do they have a a much more mature and developed intellectual understanding of the of the problem of student behavior but they also have a much more sophisticated approach comp to deal with a really truly complicated problem. The thing is is that no matter how good we get in terms of our our methods, this is a this is this is this is an issue that we have to constantly stay on from now until you know forever till the end. Uh so anyway, that's that's my report. Thank you. Okay. a little disappointed kids can't just get positive social behavior by watching streaming videos on social medias. But maybe that's just we'll move on now to item C under new business. These are brought forward from the close session on the
080March 11th board meeting. proposed 2.95 um consumer price index increase on the teacher salary matrix. Yeah. Um, not to set aside any discussion that you may want to have, but I would like to make a motion that we just if this doesn't have to be done right now that we table this until the next meeting or at least until the special meeting when the new board members are here and they can vote on it. It's due July May 15th. Huh? May 15th. Is that correct? That's on May 15th. So that they can No, I I don't know. I want that. You're asking Mike. May 15th, we are under statute to get contracts out to teachers. So it's know when the next board meeting is no in April they'll be taken over and the next meeting
081is theirs. So just I mean it's there and everything but I think just out of respect to them coming in on the board I would like to just table it and let them be the one to vote on it. I'll second it. I I mean is that a bad idea? I don't think we're hurting anything. Are we all All you got to do is move the table one and two under seat. I move the table one and two under seat. Okay. Do you And a second. You have a second. I second. And we have a second. Okay. It's a motion to table. Non-debatable. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose say nay. Nay. I don't know if Sarah's Sarah's on the way to proceed with this, but not appropriate under a motion
082to table. I know. Okay. So, those are therefore tabled and will be revisited at our next meeting. Moving on to D, amendment to Chartwell's food service contract. Mr. Right. This is uh we signed a contract um last year for uh with Tartwells and it's a 5-year contract with annual renewals. So, this is the first renewal. If you're looking at uh on the first page, that's a cap of 3% or percentage increase consumer price index food away from home. Well, consumer price index food away from home was 3.7%. So the lesser of the two is 3%. So it would be a 3% increase uh on the contract. So uh I recommend that we approve this contract. Any any questions for Mr. Mitchell? Are we is the agreement that we take the lower of the two or
083is that just what we agreed? That's what we agreed to that they have to give us the lower. Okay. All right. Yeah. This isn't one of our biggest expenditures either, though. So, I mean, as far as that, I So, are you moving to motion to accept? Motion to accept the agreement. The amendment. Second to accept the amendment. I accept it. Any other discussion? Well, I don't I don't think we can. Our biggest You can You can discuss this amendment. That's right. Yeah, I understand what you're saying. I'm sick, but I don't think we have to do that a different way, let's say. Yes, it it's scary when we know what each other are thinking. Yeah, that's the scariest time of year. All right, so all those in favor signify by saying I. I oppose say
084nay. Hearing none. That amendment is agreed to. Thank you. Thank you, sir. And we have item 9E, renaming the municipal field in commemoration of Bruce Steinbecker. A motion to do that. We have a motion. We have a second. Any discussion? uh I think that the policy that was in place was sufficient at the time but I think that something had changed that uh arise that came up so that we amended the policy to incorporate uh that making difference changes but overall I think this is a positive thing for the school district anyone else very much I'll just say I think it's nice welldeserved what you say welld deserved over. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose say nay. Hearing none. That carries. And item 9F that's in bronze soon. Item 9F quick
085locks for classroom doors. This was requested by Mr. Spalding. I'll let him speak to it. Um I I just wanted to bring up a website so people could see it. One of the things that I've always wanted to do is uh help with security and things like that in our classrooms. And um I found a website and we don't have to go with this company. My my whole intention is to get just get how do I get there you go is to just get um get this on the on the on the mind of people and so we can you know put this through this this one right here is called teacherlock.com and it is it's it's basic I don't know if you guys seen those videos before so it's firef fire code compliant things
086like that and on this specific speific website, it actually has a spot right up here on top that you can go through and look for grants and funding. And there is tons of federal grants that just can be applied for. And there's tons of money that if it's done right, it might not even cost us anything. And then there's also specific state grants. And Wisconsin has one as well. I'm fast with that. My fat fingers. Hold on. Come on. Yeah. Right here. Wisconsin also has a specific grant for this as well. If it's done right, I mean, we might not even have to pay for it as well. I wanted to get this on the mind of the board and I would I would like to see a motion or at least a directive from
087the board to task uh uh Lee with getting somebody working on trying to approve grants for or get grants for the school district. Yeah, Mr. Yeah, thanks. Um that look the lock looks like it's on the inside of the door for the teacher. Can they for if an administrator needed to get into that classroom? I'm thinking as an administrator, I needed to get into that classroom in a hurry. Does my key overrule that lock? That wouldn't even be locked unless it was an emergency lockdown. Okay. It's not something you walk in and some, right? No, it's something that the teacher um would do or even or assign a student to do, whatever it is when they do an emergency lockdown. When you see, we get these, you know, texts all the time that we're practicing
088and things like that. These are the things that would be practiced. Um, it's not something that locks automatically when you close a door. It's something that the teacher would do just like you walk in and do a dead bolt. I mean, it's only there in case of in case of that emergency. Yes. Which I understand some of our classrooms have glass on, you know, and things like that, but a lot of them don't, too. So, this is where I'm, you know, at least let's get the ball rolling on this. And if it's not going to cost us anything and we can improve safety, I I see no downside. Just wondering if maybe the best route would to be ask Michael if in two months you could report back to us on is this something we
089can do and go through that whole process of looking at grants and I was going to suggest to facilities and finance so that get it on the agenda and just I so I'll move to refer to facilities and finance second got a second from facilities and finance that's always helpful can you leave that website with Mike you have that I don't have it. Okay, here it is. Mike teacherlock.com. All those in favor? I opposed. Thank you for bringing that forward. Thank you for allowing us to go. All right. Uh, under other business, remarks from the board president. Let me start the timer so I play under the same rules as everybody else. It's only fair. Frequent observers of this board know and I suspect appreciate how loathed I am to use abuse remarks from the
090board president on the agenda. Tonight, I ask you to indulge me as I express myself on two matters. The spring election cycle has concluded. Throughout the election window, from December through March, I have resisted numerous requests to use this pulpit to address the often outrageous nonsense perpetrated on the so-called social media. If you see something posted that upsets or concerns you, call the school and get the truth. If you are the painfully shy type, call a school board member. We'll be happy to check into it for you and let you know what the reality is. We are here to represent you and we are happy to do so. Second, this evening marks the formal expected conclusion of the 2425 governing year of the NPSD board. I have appreciated the encouragement and support of both the
091public and the board during these truly unprecedented times. I thank you. Spring is a season of renewal and in just over two weeks or just two weeks we will hold our organizational meeting to set the officers for the next governing cycle. I offer kindly a few suggestions for moving forward. Accepting that executive officers are marginally functionary, the honor of serving in these roles ought to be shared and filled by considering in order interest, seniority, opportunity, and renewal. In other words, I would advocate for the most senior member of the board who has not served in a particular position be the first member considered for such a post. The three committee chairs could work likewise. That's six positions for seven board members. I know all filled by recognizing interest, seniority, opportunity, and or renewal with one
092notable exception. I think it is best that the year after serving as board president and attending all the meetings of everything, the board president becomes the most common member of the board. In essence, a gap year. To that end, and in hopes of setting a precedent that would satisfy Brigadier General Robert, I shall politely decline any nominations or appointments for the 2526 governing cycle and be pleased to simply be board member Ael. I thank you for your kind attention. I had 1 minute 46 seconds left. I checked. I timed it out. All right. Now, I really want to make sure we talk about the future meeting date because we have an unfortunate judicial requirement to attend to on the 14th as some of you will be participating in. We also have scheduled for the 28th
093the organizational meeting that is be pardon me 29th excuse me the 29th. Um I I totally apologize for reading the thing below that because by state law new board members are not officially seated until or their their term does not officially start until 428. So, we'll have that on the 29th and that should be good fun and of good interest to everyone. I now will entertain a motion to adjourn into close session. Convene into what? convene to convene and just for the purpose of that facilities and finance committee will meet May 1st that Thursday following following so it'll be May 1st at 5:00 and I would assume that the new president of the board would would announce the the committees hopefully by that time otherwise everybody's invited. I don't know what are you going to
094announce then? Huh? But are you going to announce? No. No. Okay. So, we will look forward to that because Okay. The board of education will now convene in close session for the purpose of considering the following matter. The employment, promotion, compensation or performance evaluation date of any public employee over which the government body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility. This meeting is authorized pursuant to section 1985 par one parent C of Wisconsin state statutes. The specific thing being discussed is personnel matters. Do I have a motion? Thank you, sir. Do I have a second? Second. This requires a roll call vote. If you would please. Christopher Ael. Hi. Beth Anson. Hi. Matthew. Keith Shaw. Hi. Matthew Spalding. Hi. Cherry Traing all eyes. We are now going into close. Thank you all. You do not.