3/11/2025 Regular Board of Education Meeting

001e e e the Clack on the wall he late is behind by a few minutes so we are actually starting 6:01 so we're going to get started thank you thank you for your attention um the first thing I would do is ask secretary please call the redge said pledge first pledge first I guess is uh actually I thought we do the role first no that's the order it is on here it's okay I oh long that's my fault call the meeting to ord on I didn't switch glasses folks I'll get those out once we get roll okay so first thing we have is the Pledge and after you stand for the pledge please remain standing for a national anthem both of which we will be let in by our outstanding uh chamber choir and Miss

002thank you I United States America for it stands one nation God indivisible withy and justice for all the [Music] sooud the tling who and bright stars to [Music] theing [Music] roting in Pro through the night FL was still [Music] there the of the [Music] [Applause] sink now okay Christopher able here BFF Hansen here Matthew fips present ke Shaw here Matthew Spalding here Tony here thank you uh next yeah just send that next we have public input we have three requests here for public input we'll take them in the order they were received first we have lisan creger thank you let's please end theide in 2025 it's election time again for mpsd school board and countless others across the state I am an mpsd parent to two amazing boys with special needs and I have been

003very involved with our mpsd Schoolboard proceedings for over 5 years now and I running for Schoolboard you my why for me was after I advocated so hard for my son while he was in 5K to get his IEP his individual education plan to be properly followed and I feel it wasn't an IEP is a legal document that clearly defines how a school plans to meet a child's unique educational needs through specifically designed instruction that results from a cover disability I felt the school system failed my son back then which was my motivation to begin showing up to school board meetings I learned so much by getting involved with my children's education by attending these meetings I wish more parents honestly would because you when you know more you have the opportunity to do more to

004advocate for your children which can be a ripple effect for positive changes for everybody I never wanted any other family to experience what my son went through and thus really began my advocacy J journey to try turning a very bad experience into something positive which I feel we are all cap capable of doing eventually in time I helped bring about positive changes for my family along with countless others I began advocating for other parents to start getting involved and was instrumental in the establishment of our mpsd parents of students with iep's advisory committee I'm grateful too to Mr tennis and Miss Eman for continuing our advisory committee this year and I hope whoever is chosen for superintended in April will support this as well it is so important I feel for all our parents to

005have a voice an opportunity to collaborate respectfully together to make our school district so much better for the all of us I have attended over 125 mpsd school board and committee meetings these last five years and the one thing that hasn't changed is the political divide that has caused a huge division on our school board and in our schools I feel and why I witnessed this Division and negative interactions at countless Schoolboard meetings which I feel is very unfortunate and so sad because the only one who truly suffers is our children and students you see Wisconsin Schoolboard elections are to be nonpartisan which means party labels do not appear on the ballot for Schoolboard candidates according to Wisconsin State statutes in fact majority of States currently require nonpartisan local Schoolboard races the product of historical

006efforts to separate education governance from divisive politics effective school boards are able to collaborate create shared goals and F focus on policies to improve student ATT treatment and well-being most challenges that boards face are non nonpartisan in nature they relate to issues of policymaking budget matters and the supervision of the superintendent and Treasurer districts may lose the trust of Voters including parents when school board are plagued by conflict in fighting and the in ability to productively collaborate increased conflict on boards also makes it less likely that other citizens will volunteer to run for open Schoolboard seats in that District so whatever happened to voting for the best candidate on what skills qualities and experience they have had I feel our children deserve better in today's partisan time it should not come into play in regard

007to whom is elected to school board partisan politics are a distraction from where our Focus needs to be the students the school board should be able to collaborate to create shared goals and policies regardless of individual political beliefs it's time I feel to end the divide and give all our children in the our community the education they deserve and to all start working together for the best interest of the children and not the best interest of a certain political party or special interest group it's 2025 let's all turn the page for a new collaborative future and stop the political nonsense games I truly believe in our community and know we can all do better thanks for allowing me the opportunity to provide public input thank you uh next we have Barbara Post 825 Wilson Street

008education is a vital resource that one must never dismiss without it our brains remain stagnant human brain needs training SNS true or full inclusion makes life transitions easier for all in the community acceptance support awareness education guarantee that all are accepted there's no questioning of what can they do or cannot do this brings and nurtures Independence overcoming the fears they face overall awareness a sense that we all belong and have different ways of communicating and expressing wants and needs different ways also of accomplishing the same task this comes with training and modifications done according to each individual we are all unque true and full inclusion in a school setting takes a dedicated inclusive team approach all staff involved educated and trained and accountable not afraid to ask questions when wanting or needing understanding with no

009subsequent retribution two a full in inclusion should be automatic every time a person encounters another people need to know the norms and how how to be socially accepting to another this doesn't mean you can't stay true to oneself it should just open one's mind to see how others see the same thing this builds tolerance and empathy accepting accepted everywhere anywhere without question with no fear of being shunned or embarrassed total acceptance for all students caregivers in the community this should be retroactive students need to be educated with their grade level peers no matter what their abilities abilities this brings acceptance and understanding that we are all unique truly inclusive education assures that they have the tools and manners needed to be successful out in the community and that they are accepted and active within that

010Community all students need to be seen heard and educated for and by the community so they can be active daily participants in today's world not pushed aside to be out on some occasions but on an everyday active participant in their homeschool classroom and with their peers growing and learning together this is essential if we want to be a truly inclusive active thriving Community evolve to solve come together in 2025 it's never too late to educate make sure you are here to serve all and always be professional and socially acceptive of all people when you're out representing oneself it's a mindset check are you helping or are you hurting thank you for letting me speak thank you and we have Bren Meer hello I'm Bri Meer a few months ago the school board debated whether board

011members should receive a salary my thoughts on this were the same back then as they were now I've always opposed the argument that we need to do something because everyone else is doing it I oppos that argument when the County Board was debating whether to implement a sales tax and I oppose it with this it is the same with the opposite argument of if most people aren't doing something then we shouldn't the 2023 npsd referen increased property taxes and only 2 years later another referendum has been put on the ballot as I've been talking to Residents many of them feel stretched with their taxes before voters have had the chance to express approval or disapproval with this referendum the district is asking to spend even more I don't think any Schoolboard member should Ser with

012a focus on monetary gains over community service board members should see themselves performing a civic duty rather than a side job school boards are supposed to reflect low local voices over a potential career track if a board member servs with a focus on financial gains it's possible that person could leave their position before their term is up if they perceive the duties of the office and public opinion of way the paid giving board members compensation will increase work duties for the administration such as with payroll processing and tax compliance more time spent on that will decrease the amount of time they have to perform their other important duties board members overseeing District finances while receiving compensation May develop a conflict of interest decisions could be made with personal gain in Mind Over improving our district

013the district has a lot of needs something could come up that needs funding but if the budget is tight enough it may not be able to be paid which could have been prevented have board members not received a salary on top of that what's to stop board members from giving themselves raises on a regular basis if this proposed policy passes I hope future board members save taxpayers their funding by refusing compensation for a role that does not have a history of providing a salary and it's functioned without one than you thank you that exhaust the submitted uh requests public input any others going once going twice we will call public input FL close and move on to the regular agenda I will myself be amending this agenda to take up number nine e on the

014agenda post haste to spare some of these gentlemen some time um I'm trying to see exactly how that's situated on here under new business 9e proposed contribution towards the ship's baseball field renovation I believe Mr sha was the first member of this body to be apprised of it thank you thank you Mr AEL it is a is a great pleasure to introduce again we all know Mr Ru steinbecker coach of the man Lincoln High School ships varsity and junior varsity sometimes baseball and today he has with him special guest and his wife who would like to make a contribution to the baseball Lex and also um possible recognition for Coach Bruce steinbecker so I'm introducing Bruce and your guest two wonderful people from the manatal public school district please come on up Che um thank

015you Keith uh first of all I want to thank this board for your continued support um we are working diligently to uh reach our goals and uh contined forward uh um with the goal in mind of pres providing kids what we want to see out in our field um I again marce Jones and Patrice Jones I've known for a very very long time uh all five children I had at Wilson Middle School uh two other boys I coached in our baseball program um wonderful family um I could talk about these two for a really really long time but instead I'm going to bring up um mace Jones to share some good news about our field so mace Jones I wish my wife were standing as she wants to sit first thing after listening to public

016input I want to give some public input and that is gratitude U thank you we raised five children but with the help of mantoa Public School District how do you raise five children and hope they turn out good you hope they have a lot of good teachers along the way and they did I could name a lot of teachers I asked my children then tell me some of their favorite teachers um probably the the one who taught our youngest Madison Mrs Feller when when who knows Mrs Feller um when we moved here in 1998 um Lindsay our oldest was in ninth grade and Adam and every child's two years after Lindsay Adam Seth Ethan and Madison she came four years after the last one I could name names like uh um Molly and Casey Johnson

017taught our kids coached our kids um my wife would do better I'm not going to go through all the names here Mr Tenny all of the we've sat at parent and teacher conferences and uh and love you all I get emotion emotional man but we love you we love the district and you represent these teachers that have blessed our lives aside from God my wife's most important person in the world to me and for us our children are most important to us and now we have 19 grandchildren wow and eight of whom live here we moved away because we were we we went to Mexico for 3 years to be missionaries and and now we're back and two of our kids moved back to cold I'm sorry I keep rambling but it just to Express

018gratitude to what's happened here a little Community we never thought we'd live in a great place on the lake I look at Matt fips over here and want to see him throwing curve balls again again I remember those days as we're rooting for him and Adam and they're out there trying to do their best um and so what do we do is the Joneses we've been blessed um more than we thought we would be in our lives and we want to give back I'm sorry I cry but I do it's okay because we love people we love those who bless us and you have I see you meaning all of the all of this district and then we hear of a of a need for a a baseball diamond that our kids played on Seth

019probably would have if he didn't also love golf the same season like what do you play football or soccer and uh there was a need and then you hear okay how much do you still need to get the project going and uh Patrice and I talk and say well why can't we do that why can't we help and so we want to and then there's a discussion about what do you want for that and um really we don't want anything was already been given to us there's things on the website and Facebook about you you donate this much and you can get things like that and and then we thought about well there is something we really want somebody talked about naming rights well I don't want my name on a ball field but I

020want the field to be named right and when I think of a ball field I can't think of anybody's name that should be on that field other than Bruce Steinbeck and we talk about it as a family and said you know there's no quid pro quo really but we want to give a couple hundred, to get this project going but I want to make sure that the people that really contributed their life to this the field should be named after that we've got a Ron Rubik field I I don't know Ron Rubik I don't know why it was named after him but I know he was a great man who contributed a lot to football and my kids have played there too and I played there too with my kids um so um it's it's

021kind of hard to say that we want it but I do want the field to be named the right way and it should be named after good people have contributed their life Bruce I think moved here started here a year before we moved here so all of my kids went to school there all of my kids know Bruce steinacker steiny that's all we all know and uh they were in PE they learned to dance Bruce laughed at him laughed with him I'm still thinking of Seth doing his weird in um he even got to hear me yelling um from the field sometimes um telling the Empire that was a that was a ball it wasn't a striker it was I'm sorry I'm going on and on but shoot four years he was JV coach and

022Adam was our oldest son and and I think Bruce became varsity coach when Adam became Varsity player Todd Hadler right beside him the two go hand in hand like beet and butter and jelly and uh and how many years maybe 27 years as a as a baseball coach and he's still not retired who who coaches for 27 years and doesn't retire I guess he does he hasn't had enough of kids how many children has he impacted besides our five in this community and don't tell me that the compensation is good enough he didn't do it for for money he does it because people like Matt fips are are grateful when kids that make an impact and he raises his own family in this and I use the name Bruce steinacker but I should use Todd

023Hadler too because they're side by side in everything they do um and my plea and request is that you don't sell the naming rights to a field that's wrong you don't want to see some company's name on a field but name it for somebody who's given their heart somebody's given their soul to these kids the school district needs money I know it does we live here and how do we do it well we would like to to contribute $200,000 to the project I understand that's what you need so we'll go forward but my request is that you name the field the right way and don't sell the rights but give the name to Bruce steinacker I told bra Bruce we were insisting on this I know put you in a bad way Bruce because guess

024you don't want to put your own name on there but but that's how I feel about it because his name represents all these teachers names all these people who give their time I also understand there's another issue he's not dead yet he's not retired yet maybe I I heard there's a policy that you don't name things after somebody why they're still act or still alive but I say what why that's a Sil why why do you need somebody to be retired what difference does that make May might make him a little uncomfortable walking in and seeing his name on a on a banner or something but so what why what does it matter if you've got a policy policies can change this isn't Doctrine it's just policy and and do the right thing and maybe

025you should you know we Matt fips can remember Todd Hadler at first base every game telling him to run or not run uh so maybe his name should be etched and down by first base or in the or in the home Dugout saying this is howler's home because he's worn out that spot um but please do the right thing and name it after somebody who deserves it as a representation of the Jones's love Bruce Todd for Lee groix I Nam some names and my wife could do better these people for Keith sha who's principal helped our kids out of a little trouble sometimes people that did this and that's our plea for you to do it and not wait do it now and we're grateful I go back to that I talk talk too much

026that's my fault but just know how grateful we are that's all I have to say you have any questions of me thank you thank you thank you much [Applause] Mr chair there is that motion that uh Mr Jones talked about and the motion was that a field cannot be named uh while person is still working but I'd like to make a motion that would take that and send it to Personnel policy committee uh for revision to that committee and then bring it back to the full board for discussion okay okay do we have a motion and a second second any need to discuss no all those in favor signify by saying I post say nay I kind of figured that would happen hearing none that will give you something to talk about in April uh

027okay do we have any other motions which would be to accept by the motion to accept the donation sure so I'll move that M Public School District accept the donation presented by Mr Mrs Jones to the baseball complex in honor of Bruce Stein Becker and Todd hler second got seconds all over the okay any any discussion on that no okay I would I would just like to say thank you always happy because when you honor one teacher in the district it is my view to honor all teachers the district that message comes out loud and clear your words were very thoughtful thank you okay so all those in favor signify by saying I opposed say nay hearing none kind of figured that would happen thank you thank you gentlemen thank you very much thank [Applause]

028you no all right we now get to uh return to our regular programming so I didn't say you say that um it's a bit anticlimactic but we'll get there okay so now on to number five consent agenda you have the consent agenda there before you gentlemen does anybody have anything they would like to see pulled from the consent agenda how far does that go down to G just like policy PLL discuss where are we at so from G you want policy 2266 66 where is that g would you would you like to tell us the title of it to it's the non-discrimination on the basis of sex and education programs and activities oh I see is that to give some context of what well just what the did and okay okay all right wait so

029we have that one from G policy 2266 folded anything else you you've got time everybody good good okay all so I would be looking for sorry a motion to accept the consent agenda have a motion do we have a sec thank you sir so we have a motion in a second so all those in favor signify by saying I I oppos say nay hearing none that is accepted so we go immediately then to policy 2266 the non-discrimination policy Mr Hansen has came out of your comme have that we discussed this in committee and we uh because the committee felt that um sexual orientation and gender identity are no longer an issue people aren't discussing that anymore um to take that wording out of the original and I voted for that as I started thinking of

030this a little bit we live in like the best country on this planet okay and we have this document called the Constitution and in the Constitution there's section one of the Constitution amendment um no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges and immunities of citizens in the United States nor shall any state deprive any person of life liberty or property without due process of law nor deny any person within its jurisdiction equal protection under the law that's a powerful statement from our constitution um we are not going to be here forever um we have seen throughout history throughout life things can change with a superintendent things can change with um a school board things can change with State politicians things can change with naal politicians all I'm asking in a

031friendly amendment is that we would word it to say the board does not discriminate on the basis of sex in accordance with section one of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution and then it goes on from there into the other part so I'm just sticking in that if we're not here gentlemen ladies if we're not here everybody is still protected by that document that makes this country great if they want to change something they would have to go through an attorney and Sue and I I just want to make sure that what we're feeling now is good for everybody yeah so it's friendly Amendment so well I mov so you're moving to amend it with as a parenthetical set off by commas commas okay I'll second as motion and also make a comment that U

032originally because I was the one that brought up and and it was more or less because you know you read the policy and being discriminated based upon the sex that to me that includes gender identity sexual orientation things like that um just wasn't something we needed to add in there but I like your Amendment and I in my opinion it makes sense I I covers everything and then it it protects for the future and whatever change changes legally I think that was the whole point of us going generalized with all these other policies so we didn't have to keep red doing a lot of these things and having these discussions over and over and we were going to keep it inclusive of everybody or in accordance with law state law federal law whatever if you

033want to cite the the Constitution and any of these uh yeah I'll thank you so we have the motion we have second do you do you need it one more time yes okay so after where it says basis of sex and then would be comma in accordance with section one of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution and then there's a common then it goes back into the rest of it and it's education program as activities required right whatever got it yeah okay any discussion on the amendment okay so all all those in favor of the amendment signify by saying I I that any opposed none now don't be angry it's the rules any amended policy cannot be passed at the same meeting at which it is amended so this will return again the next

034time we meet for passage okay okay well the next general meeting we have for passage well could be done at the end the meeting at the end of the month yeah if we if we have one that's a special meeting but you said general meeting so I want to make sure you know it's okay that we do it at the end of not a meeting where we're focused on some special thing like we have coming correct long as you put it on the agenda we're yeah we'll put it on okay everybody just so everybody knows okay so moving on from there we go to our always fascinating student representative okay so just some updates and some things happening at Lincoln um we are having a school board uh candidate Forum on March 26th at 6:30

035p.m. in the Lincoln High School auditorium um all the candidates for the upcoming election have been invited and um we've been posting about it and so you just want to help get the word of mouth out the date again uh March 26 6:30 at the LHS Auditorium so it's the third time student Senate run it it'll run like um then our student Senate did a fundraiser recently um and we raised some money to donate to some of the people suffering from the fires in Southern California so that was a new thing we did which was very nice um then some sports stuff our cheer team competed at State um as well as senior gymnast Devin tally two of our girls wrestlers qualified for state and MJ Newman took second at State girls and boys basketball

036earned some conference honors uh Sarah Bolin was named first team All Conference unanimous all defensive player unanimous and defensive player of the year Kendall schmidtz was named second Team all conference Taylor Peterson was named honorable mention Braden steinbecker was named second Team all conference and was third in conference in both scoring and rebounds and Edward bolon was named honorable mention so a lot of things to celebrate here at Lincoln um and then just the final thing I have is there is a spring dance happening at Lincoln this Friday at 7 in the gym so if you have anybody has people they know tell them to go so that's all I got he was politely saying we're not only wi you don't want to watch old people dance okay so that takes care of that that

037so we now go to the report of the superintendent thank you uh president able we have uh first first item up for bids is uh we have some guests here from Center justics and I got Mr Mike Schwarz who will bring them up and uh introduce them and tell them why they're here come on down so my name's Jim hatman I'm the uh energy specialist for the district and with uh Richard Peterson before me and myself Mike and his team were kind of brought into Dy down uh cost whether it comes with steam electricity Natural Gas Propane water uh and be efficient so have the buildings running when they should be and when they're not being used have them in an unoccupied position with that being said we've done this since uh June of 2021

038and with a company called synergistic and these two gentleman Tom Baldwin and Dwayne campins have been uh with us and have uh helped us to achieve our goals and so they're going to talk a little bit of what they do and what has occurred here at the district good evening and greetings member superintendent uh is indeed an honor d stand before you guys because um yeah as a former educator and and given the times and the events that occurring in public school system nowadays uh it it's really nice to be able to kind of reflect and see the hard work that's taking place in manitto public school district and uh just see the the fruit of your labor uh I want you to know that uh Jim is a rock star right if you haven't

039noticed please you know what though so so listen let me tell you um to achieve the accomplishments that manat public school has achieved thus far is it doesn't just happen by by happen stance right it takes focus it takes uh time energy and effort and uh as a result of you know Jim's labor and the type of attention and uh the devotion he has to and and by the way I want you to know that he has a love for manin he has a love for everybody here and uh he's just a joy to work with and so uh we are proud to associate uh our partnership not only with this gentleman right here but with manat Public School District so uh with that being said we we're very honored right and so uh on

040behalf of synergistic and the partnership that we have uh we want to recognize man Public School District uh with the best-in-class recognition as you can see what is best-in-class all right so Best in Class means that manat public school district has been a very good Steward with taxpayers resources right so how do you do that right you do that by again implementing a very intentional energy conservation program being Mindful and thoughtful of how you operate your schools and buildings on a day-to-day basis right um maximizing the efficiency of your mechanical equipment and as a result of that you reducing your consumption by reducing your consumption you reducing your cost overall so as you can see uh you have reduced your consumption since your base year uh 36% in energy use that is that is utterly

041amazing it's utterly amazing right and look at your total cost savings also in addition to that so uh and not to you know to be understated our carbon footprint you know how are we leaving it are we leaving this place that we live better than we found it right so another byproduct but just again being purposeful being Mindful and being intentional about how we operate our building so I am proud to stand here before you today um we value the partnership we do have I appreciate everybody in the space that that's behind me and in front of me and uh we are honored to partner with you so we want to recognize manit Public School District as best in-class partner and we value you not only do we have a banner but we also have

042and we want to present this to the superintendent yes this is the Academy Awards [Applause] additionally uh we do have a $2,000 check for t m Public School District scholarship fund use as you see fit and I would like to I used two years present this to you as wellbody that cool yeah all right so let's let's come on up you want to mik yeah just's I guess stand here and and we need got it good boy thank you very much [Applause] and now in Li of an acceptance speech forward superintendent um thanks everyone I wanted to start uh I'm actually going to start Brady a little different order of operations here I'm actually going to bring up uh Bonnie penak who is our ya coordinator and a couple of students that she has uh

043with her uh introduce them and they're going to just share a couple minute presentation on some of things that they're doing uh these youth Apprentice are employees of the manat toalk public school district and they're serving role roles within our school system and we wanted to tell you a little bit about them um you'll see of course on the agenda we have our proposed uh positions for next year just thought this would be a nice connection for you to see you know what the kids are doing so Bonnie come on up thank you for having us um so first just a little bit about the youth apprenticeship program so the youth apprenticeship is a program that lets our Juniors and our seniors experience a career area that they're interested in so they spend part of

044part of their school day out at an employer partner doing a a job that helps them learn about a career so we have students doing everything from Health Care manufacturing um construction business finance any we we have students basically in every different Career Cluster experiencing all the wonderful opportunities that our local businesses have to offer we have 177 program or students in the program this year which is a huge amount of growth for the program that we've seen in the last few years amazing um just about five years ago we were in the 70s for students so huge huge growth um mainly due to a lot of focus on these opportunities by our district and our school doing a great job of talking to our students about the importance of exploring what careers have to

045offer and thinking about their future and their life after graduation but also because we have amazing employer and business support in our community so we are very fortunate that we have many many local businesses that invest in our schools and invest in our kids by giving these giving these opportunities to them and one of those employ is our school district so this year the District of our 177 22 of those students are managed by Public School District employees in education positions and then also positions in Our IT department so I have a few students with me here today um representing some of those areas they're just going to share a little bit about what their position is who they are and what the impact of their y has been for them so far so just

046like I no and I'm a junior at Lincoln High School and what I do is I'm like a e helper at Jefferson Elementary School um so I support the kids who don't really speak English as much as we do um I think it's super helpful for them knowing that they have extra support system coming to a whole different country not knowing like really like what we do um my most rewarding part that I think about this is is getting to help these kids in knowing that I'm helping them um and just making a connection with them um individually you don't really get a lot of one-on-one time but helping them in groups you definitely get to know them a lot better than as if you're just a teacher helping 26 students rather than one just

047helping four or five so I think I really have um an advantage of that knowing that I just get to help them and that definitely get boosts your confidence a lot knowing that you're helping them and you're helping them be successful um how has ya influenced my future Crow goals um it has helped me 100% really knowing what I want to do in my future um coming into high school I didn't really know if I want to do something in the medical field or be a teacher but um see this position has really helped me and knowing that I want to work with kids now and being around that environment it has helped me so much because the environment is just really so positive especially at Jefferson it I don't think I've ever heard a

048negative thing about it it's definitely all positivity there or do you have any questions hello Valentina Martinez lante I am also an e Helper but I work at River Elementary school um I think the most rewarding part about my job is being able to help them and make them feel more comfortable in their environment because as a student myself growing up I was always very lost and like I didn't know the language very well but now that I'm able to help them feel comfortable and then feel themselves in their skin and being able to learn and soak up all the information in their language I think that's very rewarding to see them being able to like um like communicate with the rest of their classmates and being able to get good grades and really feel

049excited to learn and show up to school every day um going into this career I think I never thought I would be interested in it but I working at the school really helped me like become excited to go go and see the children every day and to go help them feel comfortable and help them learn and help them feel like educated and just like showing them a lot of new things that they never knew and just being able to show them that they're capable of doing a lot of things that they didn't know they were capable of so it really changed my mind into going into education and helping them just themselves and like help the new generation become very very confident and happy I'm Douglas week I am a it youth Apprentice for the

050school district um most of my day-to-day is going to be um preparing Chromebooks and helping out teachers with any Tech echnical issues that they may have um the most rewarding experience for on this job has been um well the experience itself with working on a vast variety of devices whether it be laptops smartboards projectors and even A-Day Chromebook um the Y program has allowed me to look into a field that originally I didn't have too much interest in um originally I was planning on being a mechanical manufacturing dual major in college but because of this position I've switched that up and now going into cyber security W cyber security oh yeah um otherwise the most rewarding alongside the experience has been the satisfaction that I get from successfully helping out teachers um it's kind of

051in my nature to be kind and helpful so being able to see the happiness that that brings is an incredible I guess you could say feeling for me thank you so very much thank you and thank thank you for your continued support of our program and these amazing opportunities for kids thanks thanks you guys if you haven't had an opportunity yet um youth art month is happening um and again thank you to the Lincoln High School chamber choir for being here tonight as you know a good themed uh and while did they knock the national anthem out of the park um so I don't want to just remind you that if you want to see awesome art that our kids have produced over 130 kids have produced a lot of uh awesome pieces of artwork

052I had the opportunity to go through uh the ra West and see this here um a Sunday or two ago and I'm hoping that all of you would take a little time it's open it's free uh just to see the incredible uh work that our kids have produced in addition to that um I know it's um April but I wanted to remind you that we do have more art than just like drawing and painting and sculpting we have obviously band choir orchestra Culinary Arts Visual Arts forensics theater and there will be a uh Fine Arts Extravaganza that will happen on the evenings of April 2nd and April 4th at Lincoln High School to Showcase all of these things so uh mark your calendars uh for that awesome experience and um showcase for what our uh

053more specifically our high school kids are doing in those areas I'm going to I'll skip over uh some of this uh just given the time but um I want you to know that we're continuing to um meet with the public and our staff around the uh referendum we' had some Community um informational sessions we have another one at Lincoln High School this Wednesday at 6: p.m. we have another another one um the 19th of March at Wilson Middle School in the auditorium there at 6:00 p.m. and this just opportunity to have a dialogue with our uh community members U make sure we answer all their questions um about the referendum uh the website that we have set up for this on our District page is uh well organized and has really everything that you'd need

054to know um I also in this report gave you updates um on the facilties committee that have been meeting uh we will do a update uh to the finance and Facilities Committee in April uh about the specific work that those teams have been engaged in uh so that we can keep the board up to date on the progress in addition to that um uh I know you had a special meeting to go over the staff uh survey results and I put a little piece in here about um you know our plan to get that information shared with our staff uh via our building principles um I wanted to also update you as I let you know before we were doing the letters home to folks who uh open and roll in open and roll out

055and uh choose um to attend private school we sent them a a letter with uh uh encouraging them to help us with some feedback um our returns were relatively low we had most returns from the folks who come in but uh we did share all of those results with you there's not it's not really edited we took a couple things that would have maybe like were a little too personal but other than otherwise you have the unedited results of that um I do want you to know that we're also bringing them to our PR committee which meets monthly uh to uh for a chance for them to uh comb through that and again help us with our action plan around how we are attempting to um get more of our families back into the mpsd

056um in addition to that um the school law conference that uh Katie and I attended we do have all the handouts for those topics if anybody's interested I'll be happy to make copies for you uh and get those to you just let me know which ones You' want um and I would also like to invite Mr Stan edrick our um athletic director who hot off the press has some good news for us thanks Lee um yeah so first of all I want to thank everybody up here um try to bring this full circle you hear the Jones has come here with their generous gift to the district and what the teachers the community meant to them and for them to be able to give back is pretty incredible um I think that's a testament everybody

057here and I look around and I see lard graduated from school with I know all you guys up here and Ellie's on the loudspeaker every day doing our announcements and our pledge um and I think a lot of times I think it needs to be said it's really easy to pick out the negative things that happen and highlight those things but I will tell you this being back here in the last few years and not being here for 25 years um the positives that I see way outweigh the negatives in any way and it's a testament to their teachers it's our programs it's the youth apprentiship that's an incredible opportunity for those kids um we talked about the r West art museum with our kids with the Arts um we have our band our chorus

058you walk through the Halls you hear them performing singing the theater's out there they're practicing it's incredible there are so many positive things that are happening and I want to share that because I see that on day basis because I'm all in the halls and and I see all that um our athletic programs Ellie mentioned dance the fifth year in a row that they were to State we had cheer go to state we have our individuals it's all incredible things we've also been fortunate enough now to host um I I'll put in the host anything we can for the wi and uh we've been pretty fortunate the last few years we have a facilities we have a beautiful facilities I and that's the other thing I'm going to come back to is I we take

059a lot of ten for granted what we see every day um we were supposed to host Brookfield East and the peuk girls and it did doesn't make sense for them to come up here two hours away they located it down in the Milwaukee area the wi Reach Out us I said we'll help anyway we can we had two division 5 teams come in here for the sectional semi-finals last week Thursday and honestly I was at hbert a small school I'm thinking we're going to have three or 400 kids we ended up with about 900 people at the at the game but I get chills when I say that from being an athlete and playing and um being in the Fieldhouse these girls walked in and their mouths open they they're an a of the field

060and um it's it's really it's really a cool thing to see we have Oshkosh west boys coming for a regional game big conferen are in there and big facilities the first comments out of their mouth is this place is incredible and I think with the board's approval the upgrades we've done in the last year it's just enhanced that um the good news that we have is we're going to be having a game on Thursday night to Pi shoan North sectional semi-final boys game um I was just contacted they're going to move a division two Finals game to us on Saturday um because we can we have the ability to host it I think we do a pretty good job and um they they also asked he said if we run into a problem and we

061can't find another place would you be willing to host another game possibly that night and I said 'absolutely and we have wonderful workers that help and um I know Biff has been the voice of the ships for years and things like that and I've known Biff since he started teaching and he was one of my coaches and he had said he goes it is great that we have this place and use it and it's we're we're filling it um so there's really a lot of good things going on but I just thought that's it's it's a positive we're going to have all these people come in we've had people that haven't been there in 25 30 years and they're amazed at our facility so um I I just I want to thank you for that

062appreciate that I wanted to share that with everybody so that's what we got coming up and if you're looking to come out to a game um please come out we're going to have some big crowds they probably 2,000 to 3,000 people a night or for per game so um and that concession money that goes to the teams are back to our teams um and then there's a cut with the WIA for tickets that we do so we have money coming back in from being able to host those events so just wanted to share that with you but thanks a lot thank you thank you st and what Stan won't say is that the wi would not be asking us to do these things if we didn't do an incredible job doing them so H credit

063to Stan in his team and the folks there uh we're a reliable dependable place for them to hold these games we're geographically located in a great spot and it's always a great atmosphere JFK so thank you Stan I end my report tonight um this sort of Co inides with the talk uh discussion on and the report on open enrollment survey results and um I was trying to show this before the meeting but we had such a hustle bustle in here uh I really wasn't really able to hear it so Brady uh We've we've produced a video uh that we are using to help uh form our community about the opportunities and the programming that we have to offer in the manat toalk public school district uh for the for our 4K program uh it's a

064very short it's just a 3 minute some oddc video but i' like to share it with the board and also with the public um and these types of efforts um we believe are important to communicate the great things that we do [Music] here riew for me has been just a positive experience the teachers have been super personable and Riverview is a great place we've just been so happy with it it's a safe inclusive environment that promotes learning for our students our teachers have such a beautiful craft of teaching young students these early early skills that they need to be successful in school through play they learn so much like they learn how to be a good friend how to get along with their peers you know how to get along with teachers how to be

065respectful how to be kind a big part of it is just learning how to be independent uh to be able to think for themselves to come up with ideas to come up with answers and not be given these answers 4K and mpsd is definitely a gift for our community our 4K program is a 5day a week program it's a halfday program students come and they're engaged in many different kinds of activities with wonderful teachers focusing on the developmental domains that are important for Early Childhood we use play as a vehicle of learning play is so important for social emotional growth academic growth and it's just fun we have a motto here in 4k it is work hard play hard and it's true we work hard for our students and with our students and we take

066play very seriously I think mostly my kids have loved it I actually was homeschooled growing up so I kind of thought maybe I would go that Direction with my kids but my kids love coming to school the teachers are are wonderful we have two girls and a boy they all have different needs they all have different learning styles and every one of our teachers has worked well with our students to create a wonderful learning environment our 4K program is really special because we have great family connections we include our families in in everything that we do we try to get families in the door as much as we can because it's really a partnership between our staff and our students and their families bringing everybody together to to help students learn it was nice to

067feel like we had teachers that really helped them socially emotionally definitely academically and then partnered with us so that we knew how to do that at home being a firsttime parent and then since then many times over it was nice to have somebody that we were doing it with and not just on our own riverv viw and the staff here has just really truly done a lot for our family and our kiddos to help them succeed and build their confidence and make them feel as though the world is endless as a new parent at a new school coming into 4K I felt comfortable I felt my kid was going to be taken care of I didn't feel like he was just another kid he was special in mpsd we serve all students of all abilities

068and we believe that all students can achieve they can be anything they want to be when they grow up and it all starts here at the foundational level in [Music] 4k we can't wait to have you be part of our school family enroll today [Music] thanks to cesa 6 for helping us put that together all the wonderful folks over at Riverview in the 4K program uh just do a fantastic job uh and I'd be happy to take any questions anyone has uh about the report just got a comment I great job on that video I think the messaging is really good and positive I really like that thanks where's that we're putting we'll we'll put it all they're cutting up shorts to put on social media you know just some shorts you know like second

069you know few Snippets sure split it up yeah the more we further that's a beautiful video okay moving on to the director's report you all have that before you any questions for the directors I I have two one from Mike I saw that here glant or Mr glant from German is retiring going to is that a position that will be filled or is German um not a popular foreign language request anymore my well to my knowledge we're away with German after this year um so therefore um Spanish and French be the two World languages going forward okay and my other one is for Heidi um thank you for your reports by the way all you directors but Heidi I also saw that we're doing the acts for the for the juniors and that you're working

070you're working hard this is probably more of a building question than for a director but I'm asking you anyway um last year we had less than 100% or less than 98% take the act of our Juniors is the district working hard to get that percentage up so we're getting more more kids to take that test is a little bit more valid score when we have 90% of the kids taking the test drive than what we've had in the past yes um keting has been working really hard with them meeting with them weekly we've been giving them lots of um pointers and tips they're they had their testing today their act testing today and they had 91% participation today and then they've got makeups scheduled um they have a more in-depth process for getting kind of

071tracking down the kids keeping track of the kids that didn't do the test to try to get um more test participation for this year so they're in they're to a good start with 91% yeah that's really good excellent excellent thank you that's it thank you anyone else all right moving on we have no unfinished business poter term for old business so we'll move on to new business and we start with the report from the February 20th finance and Facilities need um it was it was minutes for the consent agenda um really nothing there was no action taken it was more informational the audit report is done by Hawkins and Ash CPAs if the facility or the facilities committee all got the copy if any of the board member would like to read the complete audit

072report I'm sure that Mr micheller has a couple of copies you could probably read it bedtime but that was approved it accepted um they are beginning our superintendent and the directors in uh business they're starting to look at the 2526 Staffing looking at salaries and the index for salaries and um the buildings and grounds as Mr tennis indicated will be given a much more detailed report at the next facilities meeting so about it no action required thank you sir y we move then to the report and items brought forward from the March 4th personnel and policy committee meeting Mr Hansen is the chair we have a couple tree thingss to talk about as they say yeah um couple tree teams couple tree teams um we are looking at hiring an additional soccer coach um we've

073had an increase in the number of uh people young people participating uh I think they had 26 this year additional and then next year it's going to stay so we're looking at creating a freshman team almost double or more than double is like 55 and talking to talking to the coach those numbers are also there in the middle school with kids playing so it's it's a growing Sport and uh I will move that we will hire that additional position um to start the freshman team we will have a 16 game schedule uh if you read the notes at all you could see the additional cost for the coach and the travel minimum and uh that's what a team cost and it's worth it to have the kids out doing something rather than sitting on their

074phones and iPads amen they want to play let's let them play and let's have a good program so I'll move that we hire the additional coach okay I was afraid that whole thing was your motion getting of editorial we have a second on that motion any other discussion I say yay I'm glad that we have that much interest in soccer yeah all those in favor signify by saying I I opposed say nay hearing none that passes we will have a second coach the second thing that we're looking at and Michael I may uh um excuse myself to your expertise on this but as we saw tonight the youth Apprentice program is doing very well it's growing it's uh was amazing I just had a tour of LTC and the college President Al there was telling

075me about our youth program and how much he hears about it so it's it's a good thing that we are working within those employers and the word is getting out that we have a very very successful program it's growing we need some additional positions there so I don't know Michael if You' got anything as far as the cost well the only thing I would add to that would be that um I think I think uh what's really NE about next year's possibilities is just a variety of positions we're going to have you know itel which you heard tonight uh teaching assistance at the elementary school nursing occupational therapy Physical Therapy SLP speech language the speech language pathology therapy and some maintenance positions so you know that just a variety of opportunities for our for our

076young adults is is really neat and as Biff said and as Bonnie said we have currently have 22 positions we're asking for three more and I think the total cost of adding three positions is 29,000 you know so um so I did it's just such a good program I mean you heard tonight how you know when we talked about in committee some students May learn Yep this is my ticket to a career this is the direction I want to go other students May learn maybe not so it provides so much possibility for for them to explore you know it's just a need opportunity and that maybe not is just as important as it experience they get that might be positive because you may think you're going to do this as an adult and you get

077into it and all of a sudden it's like I don't like this sometimes that is just as important as being successful so it's a really good program uh we just have some really good high school kids don't they do they do a nice job so I will move that we will add those three positions um to the program y program second motion we have a second any further discussion I just want talk real quickly about this uh back when I was uh believe that was nth or 10th grade we actually had a summer school um quot uh program at the school school forest and uh I actually had the opportunity to go out there during the days before baseball practice Mr Hadler and uh we actually taught to younger elementary students and the experience was

078just invaluable I got to spend the whole summer at the school for with a bunch of elementary students and uh it was just an amazing experience and this is awesome that it's finally coming full circle for us to be able to offer this to young men and women that uh want to explore different careers but at the same time you know being compensated at a fair fair rate so I think this is amazing I wish this would have happened a little sooner at the expansion level that it is now but maybe it it took this long for everybody to kind of see the returns that we're going to get so thank you okay then all in favor signify by saying I oppos say nay hearing none that passes and the third thing that I just

079wanted to mention it it if you went through the the minutes of our meeting and and I think this is important that we start getting out to the public this information but um I'm going to give credit to the superintendent for going through Staffing looking at our positions what we need what we don't need um we had talks last year here about saving a million dollars if we closed the school um we're going to be close to million just by changes in programming and making more efficient use of of some of our employees um that's important to get to the public considering we're asking them to Pro a $25 million loan we are doing the best job we can to bring the cost of that down so it'll be NE negligible we probably won't have

080a tax increase because of that referendum and we discussed this at the committee meeting as far as the job that we're doing to do we need teachers here does this have to happen can we share teachers between buildings can we do different things um those are things that I give credit to our Administration staff at Lindberg for looking at that is going to save real dollars for taxpayers you know we we've had two years where the taxes went up quite a bit and it uh I think we have an opportunity this next year to bring that down and and that goes to the work of the superintendent and the people working with him um the other thing that we have to mention is in that is is sometimes I when I listen to radio talk

081shows I hear people complain about the money for the baseball field the baseball field right now is not in very good shape I'm not sure why that happened it is not you can't we can't host we can host a JFK we can't host at our baseball field because we don't have bathrooms in our quter pities okay we don't have running water there so we are going to spend some money there yes but if we didn't have this group of people going out raising money we'd be spending a lot more tax money just to get a field where kids can use it and play so sometimes yes we're spending 900,000 but we're going to get a lot for 900,000 that may have cost us a couple million more than a couple million to get a nice

082facility for the kids so we have to look at things differently but I can tell you from our committee at least Personnel wise the superintendent his staff have done a nice job of saving real money next year at $2 million and that that is something that is going to help this District down the road um in many many ways and I appreciate your sending in time yeah I just like to say I got I got mail on the on the staff reductions or well not exactly reductions but you know balancing out things of the ratio between instructors and and and students and I pointed out I mean I I used the term it was a you know kind of a golden compromise we kept we kept all the schools all the neighborhood schools up and

083running we we uh reduced we we we we increased slightly the number of students per teacher and did that by Saving $2 million and not having anyone lose their job I mean that seems to be a pretty pretty a pretty good piece of administration in my view that's it okay we go to you now sir with the report from March 4th of curriculum and instruction committee I don't I don't have too much we did we did approve you know with some real admiration that you know the out State travel especially the Spanish the Spanish program is just a kind of a wonderful opportunity for students you already voted on that along with the other state travel for cross country but then we had a presentation you know there's an awful lot of curricular curricular reform

084and and and uh and an improvement going on in the man Public Schools right now and and one of the one of the fields is is is English is literature in English and we had a presentation from jod Bry presented with information and they're they're on the verge I think of they're well I think they have decided on a liter a literate p a a literature an e package uh it's called hmh beats beats me what that means but but but they really are a really happy with it and think it's a tremendous Improvement and that'll be used for for El English learning English language uh 9 through curriculum um the other thing that that has happened is is that in at the February curriculum committee meeting uh we we forwarded a a a middle

085school Social Studies textbook uh for public review and that that is that that has happened uh 30 days has happened and um we'd like to um we'd like to we'd like to we'd like to vote on the the on the approval of that textbook right the 68 did it during it was on consent agenda so I think it was on consent agenda that's right how many people reviewed that carried you know none that's what I thought okay okay but always welcome that's that's absolutely we put out there for them to do that and if there are any people you know concerns or complaints they have that opportunity to review that we currently we currently have the the ELA curriculum is now yeah the ELA curriculum is yeah right around here now when I have people

086come and they say something if they don't like that I I ask where where was your interest in looking at these things that's what I say well you know I I kind of trust the professionals on that and um I but I like the having the opportunity for absolutely for anybody being able to like look at it and say whatever they want um for now we're a free Society so um uh so that's my report thank you any questions for all right we'll move on now to stakeholder participation in the superintendent process update and proposal I know it's long to be honest with you I deliberately put this on tonight's agenda because the other choice is to talk about this on Thursday night but this is something that we must discuss in open session so

087Thursday night right now is perceived as primarily closed session so I put it on tonight's to make things uh more efficient for us on firsts we had an opportunity for people to sign up who were interested in being part of the community um panels for um the interviews however they're ultimately determined to be in the future corre and all those names okay we initially had talked about the board going through and setting those groups if we do that that must be done in a public session and I don't know how much fun people would have watching us as the old expression goes nobody really likes to watch sausage getting made so I'm not sure how enjoyable an experience that would be for anybody thinking heart about this I would like to propose to the board

088the following possibility and this is in discussions both with um Miss Vickman and Mr n what I would propose is that we hand that list over to HR HR randomly picks people to make up at least two panels and alternates in case somebody isn't available on the set dates and those are the people that are picked rather than we try to determine who is a yes who is a no we have uh my guess is it was 51 names and I was emailed a few more so the total might be about 55 but my reference would be to remove everybody from it and trust that Mike staff can randomly set and there pretty easy ways to do that after you sort them out by what they are whether Community or staff or what have you

089and then they create the list and they give it to us we we ultimately approve that list sure okay the only other thing that I would share with you is my belief that the people that should not be considered for this community one would be candidates for the school board because some of them will be available with us on that final part of it so I don't think it's appropriate to I I would just say and I only spoke to two candidates who when they contacted me and I said personally I don't think it's appropriate for you guys to do that we're going to be inviting anybody who is a board member elect to join us in our deliberations so that would my advice but again this is a group decision I don't just make

090it by myself for that specific reason Chris because we have no idea who the board member elects are going to be that I would disagree with that portion other than that I agree with okay yeah I just want to say two things uh number one that I think it's the fairest by law is the fairest way to select people especially you know uh for a Citizens group and a staff group um in the most pure democracy the world has ever seen like in Athens people were selected for positions by lot and it seemed to me that honestly just is so you know unbiased and and and leaves it to the fates okay yeah the other the other thing is is that on the staff the staff committee well these will be uh mixed committees people

091from staff community staff admin student but on the staff I think we should we should we should almost favor teachers I think because they are most of the staff I guess they are the most significant number of Staff yeah yeah and and we probably should have an administrator on and you know and and and and and uh and non- teing staff on represent we have to make sure that that that I think we can leave that to Mike too but totally agree that's up to to Mike and the directors to put these people together to put the AC cross section of all the staff that represent manro Public School District from secretarial and maintenance custodial to par professionals to teachers to Department chairs AC crosssection to to represent us as a whole I think it's

092fine do you have anything you want to say no I I like the idea of HR doing it I if you want to be part of this process my hope is you're looking for the best person to lead the district no matter where you are right you know so I I think that's a good idea that that we're going to have people on there that get chosen by Lots rather than going through a messy meeting that so so hearing no objections I will simply get Mike the full list and who gets drawn from that is who gets drawn okay is that leaving open the that's the full list I won't edit it in any for that no okay no if if if you're not going to object to us doing it that way that's the

093if everybody's understanding in that I will simply take silence as Ascent we'll just get it all the mic so they can get that I mean ultimately at the end it's going to be as it is you know what I mean yes but but yeah having no connection with who has chosen to do those things idea I think okay good thank you thank you okay so moving on from there we move on to other business um first a reexamination of proposed bylaw policy compensation why is in way of introduction I was re again as you guys know my policy is if you request something is on the agenda I'll put it on the agenda you know and uh it was requested by Mr Shaw I know that Mr Velo too was unhappy that he did not

094get a chance to be part of a discussion on this so I put it back on there I'm I'm happy to turn it over to Mr Shaw now for it was his request yeah the reason that I brought it back up again was because during the facilities committee it passed for 40 on the facilities committee to talk about this in open board then then it went to Mr Hansen's committee and I never made there okay that's fine but then again after talking with Tony and a couple of people um that had that had an opportunity maybe to say something during that discussion never got to because it never came to an open board so that's why I brought it back up as a motion to reintroduce that policy with the fact the taking a look

095get the consideration of of paying board members of stien and and possibly as Tony has mentioned and not speak it for him he can speak for himself a broader Avenue of candidates that might be attracted to the boardeducation yeah I I would agree with that and you know I think it'll diversify the candidate pool uh just thinking back to when I decided to throw my hat in the ring you know I I recall there being other people that I I to that once they learned about the time commitment involved uh it just wasn't feasible for them to invest that kind of time you know without you know some compensation and I'm not suggesting that anyone's going to get rich doing this or doing a public service by any means but when you consider the fact

096that I believe we're one of a handful of if not the only District in the state that doesn't pay its board members uh there's other positions in our local County and city government that I've heard you know do less work than we do and they get paid so if you know I think it's really just you know factoring all that into it and you know the other key thing to think about is that you know I know a lot of the the members in the board are retired teachers and administrators which I think is good and important to have some of that perspective on the board but I also think it's important to have other perspectives because our community is made up of more than retired teachers and administrators and I think that you know

097having some compensation tied to it would make it easier to get some more candidates to run because a lot of people aren't retired and able to invest that kind of time without some compensation so for those reasons I I think that is a good idea and I think it's a reasonable request consistent with what other districts are doing I remember in the conversation because I listened to the board meeting or the committee meeting that night and and mass baly made great comment totally totally recognizable and acceptable comment in in well-meaning he said that he didn't run because it was a a community expectation that he wanted to give back to the community and I agree with that there's nothing wrong with that but giving compensation to a board member doesn't mean you have to take

098it um if that is your belief that you don't want to take it then so be it um or you can take that that compensation and donate it to the Riverview playground or you could donate it to the baseball field or you could donate it to the scholarship fund or you could donate your money to the foundation there's many ways that you could take that as Tony said that pittance of a reward and donate it to a fundraising or or a Riverview playground or or scholarship fund and not take it because it's offered doesn't mean you're going to take it but at least it's offered to us maybe a parent that has to do dayare or child care or or uh respit care for an elderly so they can participate in the school board uh

099hang on one second before we have any further discussion I pretty generous to but I really am looking for a motion here to make discussion more appropriate I make a motion to approve statements for the school board okay do we have a second for approval of policy for for that one may I may I make a friendly Amendment if it's not implied I would just I would add what you just put in there about not having to accept it I'll accept that Amendment not having what accept accept that Amendment okay so the policy as written with the provisor that members can refuse or donate or or yeah well you can do that without deposit okay so we have the motion we have the second yes sir thank you for your patience um I'm still vly

100against any any type of a compensation for this position um however if if you were to get me to vote for this I'd like to add another amendment the only way I would ever vote for this is because we are all part of the governing body that would be making this decision is that with or without re-election it does not matter who you are if you are one of the seven members on this board right now you will never benefit from that whether you got whether you get reelected or not just for the new bees coming up only for anybody else other than Keith sha Biff Hansen Chris AEL Carri TR Matt Fitz Matt Spalding or Tony bastelica can never be part of that I I I understand your your interest in that and I

101I don't want to in any way inhibit your interest in amending it I just want to say that definitely would be something we'd want to check with because normally the format is you set it up for at such and such an election going forward like the way this was written was right this election going forward which we can do because there's nobody under that election I remember you speaking about that earlier Chris and I do understand it and that's true in this election going forward and I'm just saying and adding if you if you wish to get me on the side of voting for it there needs to be an addendum to that that any of these seven people cannot benefit from this because you are part of the people that are putting it in

102process as far as I'm concerned you go I don't care if you get reelected six more times never be part of that that's that's the only way I will ever vote for it I'm just saying are you moving that or no I'm moving that for a friendly Amendment on top of his friendly Amendment are you accepting I'll accept that okay so we have a motion with two friendly amendments and a box of Cracker Jack so so that's where we are right now any discussion we have a motion you well he has accepted those so we're not voting sorry she's so amazing I just she is I'm expecting to see I I can't support this um you know you're right I I get a small little stien for the County Board um but I didn't do

103this for the same reasons I do that there is something you know the history here is that people haven't got paid I would feel terrible about now saying we're worth money in the situation that we are in just budget wise you know yes it's a small it's a small amount of money blah blah blah but we are in a situation where we're going to spend Millions tens of millions over the next couple years to try to fix buildings to figure out what we're doing here and maybe after that's done I'll say yeah we should should do this but right now I think we're in a situation where board's got us into this not just this board not just the last couple years board's got us into this by decisions made we need to work to

104get out of it under the system we're under and maybe when things are settled out and we have $10 million surpluses every year I'll consider it when we do do that job that we need to do but I look at the election coming up we have candidates running for three seats so there's still people running okay um I have never in my history of talking to people to run for city council or County Board never run into somebody and the first question they ask is money there's a service thing that that we do I understand the need for that but other the three governmental bodies I've been in this is the one that screamed service more than any of the other ones because of what we deal with so I can't support this I understand

105why you want to do it but there's no way I'm going to support it until fiscally we're in better shape yes yeah I I just want to be historical here the you know the founders of the American Republic said that you know you have a republic if you can keep it but what the prerequisite for keeping it was that there had to be civil virtue there had to be civil virtue among the people people who who took part in in in in the processes of the Republic and you know I I'm often really discouraged by how much money is involved in politics and and and and in and and and in in the whole political government system and um I just think boy I'm glad we're we're we're rare among School boarders I think that

106what we want or what I think we should want is that we should really want people to do this work because because of the virtue of it you know not have to be you know kind of encouraged by 3,000 bucks or any of that and and and and there have been all kinds of people that have served on the school board that have never ever ever asked for any kind of compensation and I think that's a good that's a good tradition and I think that I just find it sort of the The Virtuous part of the service being slightly compromised by being mixed with money so I'll vote against it yeah I I would just say as I've said before I'm not troubled by elected positions that get some kind of a stipend I don't

107support it myself I believe this is public service I believe that if you talk to almost anybody who is a former member of the mpsd board they will tell you there isn't enough money that you could pay somebody to be on this so no matter what you're paying you know and the other thing I would say I absolutely agree that it's it's not a struggle to get people in the last four years we've had primaries for the school board three times that means we have a lot of interest I guarantee you we have a lot of interest in what's going on in the school board I hear about it in the grocery store so I I I'm glad people are that interested in that involved and I don't think we need any kind of renumeration

108for that to happen so I I I will stand where I voted last time all I think this is great that's the reason why V brought up the reintroduction is to have this kind of discussion which was never afforded to us in the past I appreciate the yeah yeah I appreciate the discussion and I still reiterate nobody's forcing you to take the compensation you could give it back to the school district uh you can give it back to however you want to but it may in the future help someone to pay for a child care or whatever in order for them to be involved if nobody's forcing you to take the compensation you can donate it to the back to the foundation and write it off as a tax credit do anything you want with

109it but it's not a force it's not a force down your throat entity it's it's volunteer why aren't more parents of kids in this District M I'm just asking a question I mean it seems like a bunch ofour the school board's you know outside of St he's the only one a kid in the district right now and out of the candidates running I think only one of them has kids in the district so again I'm just saying I've talked to people and I I feel that you know if if there was again no one's doing this to get rich right like if I were to look at all the hours versus the stipend it's well below minimum wage right sure you that I just feel that for some people that aren't in the same position

110as some of us are where hey I can afford to invest time in the community I want to do that and I think most of you guys are like-minded in that regard not everyone's going to have that same uh Advantage right where they can invest that kind of time you know with nothing in return and all I'm suggesting and I think he brings up a great point you don't have to take this right like I wouldn't take it like I'm sure none of you guys probably would do but maybe for for one or two people that are on the fence about running maybe that could change right if they have to cover the cost of child carees you know that's significant time man this is at least you know 20 hours a month right at

111least you guys know some some months it's more than that it's a parttime job I just want to I don't know child recently I think it ends up being like maybe anund something bucks a month that is not enough to I just wanted to add that but it's not but either way I understand I don't know I'm still against it no love loss of fireworks for these school board meetings that I've been on in the last three years so if I vote Yes I never get paid if I vote no I never get paid I hope everybody's having fun tonight being here um when I uh originally got elected I I said oh yeah let's go have some fun here I'll help the community because I never went military um and I wanted to serve

112our community so that's why I did this um would I like to get paid yeah I'd like to get paid that's awesome extra money you know take your wife out to dinner a couple times cuz you're not home as much um maybe take your kids and buy some new shoes or something you know that's cool uh but everybody's got good points I mean Tony you got great points about having a better candidacy pool of people running for it because they're not just completely taking a loss on their time their families um Mr Hansen you have a great Point as well like our financial situation is crap why the heck should we give ourselves raises or the future raises when there's been a long list of people that have done it so uh do I have

113the right answer no I don't know what the have to do so I guess I'll leave it up to the next board so I'll be voting no okay so you know the motion and the two or three two two friendly amendments two friendly amendments okay all right so all those in favor signify by saying I I oppose say no could I see the eyes please make sure I can't thank you thank you thank you all right um next remarks from the board president not to be a broken record but it is youth art month's last meeting I was rightly rightly corrected by mentioning only uh the r West and I apologize for that nowhere do I think that the Arts and Crafts movement was more important than it was here in Wisconsin and personally my

114view of the Arts are the Performing Arts the visual arts the Fine Arts and even the applied Arts there's so much that we do in our schools that is art related that I think it's really good to have an opportunity to look at some of that stuff I appreciate it so whether it's wood shop or portraiture I I really think there's a real element of the Arts in that and it's great that we have such great experiences for kids doing that next future meeting dates we have a meeting on Thursday it is anticipated at this time that meeting will be entirely enclosed session not that you're not free to come sit here and Grumble when we go into close session um but we anticipated all inclosed session uh and beyond that really not sure we

115may or may not be having a finance meeting this month what is your expectation I would wait till I hear from pen and Mike okay so I checked with them there's not a there's not a need okay so there will be no Finance so if you there and um special meeting uh we we'll see if something comes along maybe what will be special special is nothing does so we'll see what happens with that and with that I would tell you that the Board of Education will convene and close session for the purposes considering the following matters conferring with legal council governmental body who ising oral or written advice concerning strategy to be adopted by the board with respect to litigation and which it is or is likely to become involved and that is pursuant to

116section 19885 1g of Wisconsin State statutes specifically former employee complaint and B considering the employment for and compensation or performance evaluation data of any Public Employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility this meeting is authorized for to section 19 18851 C of the Wisconsin statutes uh compensation strategies for staff and we may or may not probably won't V to open session afterwards so I'm losing my tie you probably won't have anything to see after we come out of this I will now look for a motion to go into close don't move thank you sir we have a second we have to do this on R call that's the rules Christopher okay we are here nearby Clos gentlemen I'll give you a few minutes and then we have the first part of

117our show how many okay you got two