001You can't have this. Cracked tort. Uh, the meeting will now come to order. Uh, roll call. Mr. Propes here. Mrs. Brunette here. Mr. Cow here. Mr. Glanik here. Mr. Hirsh here. Miss Johnson here. And I am here. Let's please rise for the pledge of allegiance led by Mr. Glanic. To the flag of the United States of America and to the stands one nation for all. Thank you sir. The agenda was posted throughout the district according to schoolboard policy published as a legal ad in the superior telegram and posted on the district web page. A notice was sent to the connection for publication. uh the approval of the July 14th, 2025 agenda. I'll make a motion to approve the agenda. Second. All those in favor say I. I. Anybody opposed? Good deal. Uh item four, the
002consent agenda, the June 9th, 2025 regular school board meetings, uh open and executive session. I would hope you all went through that. If you had any questions, you got addressed the treasurer's report. Mr. Cowi. All right. In the general account on June 30th, 2025, there was a balance of 5,276,63123 in cash and investments. Receipts since the 1st of July and not included in the June 30th balance are $12,926.74. And the dispersements from tonight's July 14th board meeting total $72,9251. the flexible spending account on June 30th, 2025, there's a balance of $31,56.92 in cash and investments. In health reimbursement account on June 30th, 2025, there was a balance of $3,2535 in cash and investments. debt service fund. On June 30th, 2025, there was a balance of $674.92 in cash and investments. A detailed report on fund
003activities included in the financial statements. Thank you, sir. Uh item C, payment of invoices. I would trust that you all took a peek at those and if you had questions, you reached out to Mr. Federal Carter. Does anybody have anything they want to ask about that or are we good? Good. Resignations, employments, and retirements. Mr. Moore. Yeah, at this um this month we had no resignations and uh for employment we had Mrs. Breen um Oeski uh will be the new first grade teacher at NES and Mrs. um Lana Schulman uh is going to be the 4K par educator at both Iron River and um NES. With that being the case, I need a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda, please. Make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Good. All those in
004favor say I. Anybody opposed? Good deal. Uh item five, the approval items on letter A, 20256, food service and meal prices. I would expect this is either you Mr. Mort or Mr. Fetcher. Mr. Petra Carter has Yeah, I can tackle this one. So, um, we're to the time of the year where we have to set meal prices for the upcoming, uh, 25 26 school year. Um, and this is kind of dating back to postcoid times. We really tried to keep meal prices as low as possible. We transitioned from no cost for food to starting to have parents pay for it. But the reality is is that um cost of operating our food service department along with the increased cost of food itself um the recommendation from the business office is to do a 50 cent
005per meal increase across the board. So that would put breakfast at 205. Um elementary lunch at 365, middle school, high school lunch at 390. Free and reduced are reduced prices are set by the state. We cannot adjust those state and federal government. So, um, really there's only we don't want to make money, but we can't can't lose money either in that budget. And this will help kind of balance that out a little bit. We've tried to as best as we can hold off on raising prices too fast, too quick, but I'm kind of running into a roadblock here with what's happening outside of our world. So, recommendation would be to adopt those food prices for the 2526 school year. You you said you're running into a road block with what's happening outside of and then
006I didn't catch the word outside of just the costs. Um okay and just like everyone else everything else so food is up and then we do have a number we anticipate some equipment replacement needs in the coming coming years. Um and ironically an oven for this level is not $5,000. I wish it was. But can maybe just touch on the lunch fees. Okay. Is that intended to cover capital equipment as well? It should in a perfect world. Yes. Okay. I was thinking that would just cover more direct cost, but that's part Yeah, I guess it's an indirect cost if you want to call it that, but And we don't try and cover staff with it. No, that's part of the equation. Yes. Oh, the lunch st I thought I thought we did not try and
007offset staff. Oh, it's all what we call fun 50. It's all food service. So, we try and break even on fun service period including period. Yes. Yeah. Um and if we don't eventually the the federal government comes in and tells us, hey, look, here's what your meal prices need to be set at. We're talking with DPI. We're below the state average, which hovers around four and change, a little bit above four for a for a lunch price. So, we're trying to move the needle, but not have huge jumps. That's what it boils down to. So, we set the prices pretty low coming out of COVID times and have kind of slowly incremented up about 25 cents a year. I'm to a point where we need to make some more more adjustments to it. Does the
008meal include a drink? Yeah. Well, I thought it did, but elementary school. Yeah. Mil. That's different. That's a in addition to um but it's not the middle middle school high school did not do any kind of milk breaks unless they really really want to. Any other questions? No. that I would entertain a motion to approve the food service meal prices. I'll make a motion that we approve the increase at 50 cents per meal prices. Second. All those in favor say I. I. Anybody opposed? That doesn't have to be a individual because it's just All right. Uh item B, the adoption of the Wisconsin model standards, common core standards, and national science standards for the district of 2526. Yeah. Every year we have um we have to adopt the um the standards. Um it's usually the
009July meeting in Atonum. But we uh we we use the Wisconsin um model for the common core standards and the national science standards. So we're looking for your appro approval on that. Any questions? If none, I'll take a motion. I make motion we approve the adoption of the Wisconsin model standards and a second. Second. Anybody opposed? All in favor? Did that backward. Motion still passes. Mix it up a little. Try to keep everybody under to at least we all didn't say I right. Uh item C, seclusion and restraint report for the 2425 school year. Yeah, in your um in your packet you have the um seclusion restraint report. We do that usually every um comes out every July as well um for just for your um to take a look at. This year we had
010no seclusion restraints uh to report. So that's great. Does does a head start rule is that included in that report? Uh no. So they're a little bit they would report all of their stuff to family that doesn't fall under their licensed teacher that teacher. Uh so looking for approval for Yeah. I need a motion to uh approve the seclusion restraint report. I'll make a motion to approve the seclusion and restraint report. I'll second. All those in favor say I. I. Anybody opposed? Motion passes. Item D, the cooperative cooperative agreement with Southshore regarding occupational therapy. So, we have a 6040 agreement with Southshore on our um our occupational therapist. Um we are looking to approve that tonight. someone already in that position. Yes. So, we this is not not new. It's the same thing that we've
011had the last couple of years. So, um so sure and and it's been a a good relationship. We we share our occup one of our occupational therapists with them. So, um Cody, one thing I wasn't clear on is was there any changes in this contract from last year? No, basically it's an annual Yeah, I didn't think so. I just curious about that. So yeah, three days with with us, two days at Southshore um is what the game plan is. It's worked well. Obviously, Southshore does give us revenue for that. Um and recommendation would be to continue. It works for us and it works for them. Any questions outside of Mr. Hir motion? Whenever somebody's ready, I'll make a motion to approve the uh agreement with Southshore. I'll second it. All those in Oh, I have
012to do a roll call. Uh Mr. Props. Hi. Mrs. Brunette? Yep. Mr. Cowi? Yes. Mr. Guan? Yes. Mr. Hirsh? Yep. M. Johnson? Yes. And I say yes. All good to go. Uh item E, policies. Uh second read for the 34.1 update and all policies are accessible. The board members via your Google Drive. Are there any questions? I had one, but I can wait if somebody else had any questions on any of them. Well, I I'll bring this up as a a recommendation. So, um, I'm going to propose that we accept policies, but I want to bring your attention to three policies that I think we need to make an amendment to. Right. All three of them have the same language, and it's in policy 11:30, 3230, and 4230. So, I'll give you a chance to
013pull each one of those up because I'm not going to I want you to see what we're talking about. 11:30, 3230, and 4230. Yes, sir. Which one are they under? Policy. It's under ethics and uh ethics and conflict of interest. All three. All three of those are titled the same. And I think the language is pretty similar across each one. It's just exactly different employee groups. So if you pull either one of those, you got to see the same thing. And when you get that open, I want you to bring your attention to letter B. Okay, I assume you're there. So, the recommendation or the that I'd like to make is that we scratch letter B. And the reason is um it's it's a bit ambiguous when it says when it uses the term relative.
014So, it says employee shall not directly supervise a relative employed by the district. Um I don't think that language is well worded. What is a relative? Okay. Is it spouse, third cousin? I mean, to me, that's that's muted definition. Was this defined anywhere? I I could not uh find it. I think they checked on that. Um and and I think my recommendation is with this type community that we are here. I'm not sure that uh we even need that line in there. like pretty sure it's there so that you don't have too close of like Yeah, supervising a spouse. Yeah, I understand. So, I think I think there has to be something there. Yeah, I would agree. I think I would rather add definition to how far the relative is going to be inclusive of
015versus removing it because I wouldn't want there to be a principal and a spouse like teacher spouse. to feel like that would place them in a difficult position. Like typically, it's not that they can't be in those positions. It's if there's an alternative reporting structure, they report to another principal or whatever. I think it's important to have that if there's an understanding that they don't directly report to but it's not that it can't happen. It's just that there's a plan in place and then I think we should just define if there's a questionable relative. Well, there could be a proceed could be cannot supervise a relative with some language unless the board sign, you know, authorizes it, you know, so we know about it. If there is a Can I So, can I propose this
016then because that and I don't mean to cut you off. No, go ahead. Uh cuz because mine was under the same thing under item B and those three things. So I I guess perhaps do you can do we want to table those three policies and then maybe have this particular discussion tomorrow evening to define that and then we could bring that back at the August meeting for approval. And I think it's important for the board to know typically and I've got a couple principles in the room we find a way administratively to make sure we're not crossing that Yeah. half which is how if I can share what you described very also because of the amount y so I think we've made it work internally with some of the cases that we've had no issue
017with defining it a little bit more um but you are correct Vince yes we're we're a small community there's most likely going to be some kind of relative relationship potentially with an administrator and an employee. I know I can speak for myself. I would not want to evaluate my wife who's a teacher here. No fear, man. Seriously, not a bad idea. Yeah, I think it just sets clear boundaries. But I do agree having some definition around what defines a relative in a bigger bigger city is probably not as much of an issue. But is their cousin considered a relative? Yeah. Not according to Jerry Lee Lewis. That was moving that. Yeah. Yeah. So I guess is everybody on board with tableabling those three revisions 11:30, 3230, and 4230 until the August board meeting for a
018clearer definition regarding relative. Yes. So, I'll make that motion to uh unless there's other questions to approve the policy revisions as stated with the exception of 11:30, 3230, and 4230 which are being ted and I know it's 24-hour turnaround. I'd be interested if administration had a recommendation on how to clean that up. Um, we just have to define we have to put that out how we define it. I guess if you wanted to come with this is how we think you should be fine relative be cleaner for the board to I have no problem getting that done tomorrow. Yes. I have a motion on the table. I had one one question. I I just wanted some somebody to just kind of clarify that the third grade promotion and retention. Is that is that completely new?
019Yes, it's completely new. Yep. So on the heels of all the stuff with act 20 that came through in the legislation, there's also language about retention that really scared almost every third grade teacher. Um my opinion, I think the only knock. Um if you look at the way that this was drafted, it really gives parents a big handiness and it allows schools and teachers to work with parents to say, is this in the child's best interest or not? So, I I'm in favor of this uh policy as it's been brought to you because that allows us to work very closely with the families and the teachers to say we've done everything we can. This child will benefit from it or they wouldn't benefit from the same. And this only applies to students who have a
020plan. So, what what happens to like a regular third grader who just fails? I know. Well, they don't get grades until they're in fourth grade. So I guess you don't fail. Little difference with that. So the requirements under act 24 assessing kids start when they're in kindergarten. So if a kindergarter struggles with reading skills and they drop below the 25th percentile compared to kids in the country, then that child would automatically have to have a personalized reading plan. If that plan is redundant and the wheels are spinning, we're supposed to go down the path of the special referral like for years. Um if if we get to a kid who you know maybe they were in that 30th to 25th percentile they kind of bubble and all a sudden in third grade they just they're
021not keeping up then it would they would be on a a personalized reading plan to individualize instruction in third grade and then if that child isn't progressing then this policy says we families to say is it in their best interest to repeat third grade which in my seven years here I had parent detention is not something very often more so than I still need a second second. Sorry. No, no, that's all right. That's all right. Uh, all those in favor, please say I. Anybody opposed? It passes. You have all that, Miss Uh? I do. Okay. Uh, item six, the administrative reports. Uh, item A, the 256 bus pickup procedures. Guessing this is going to go toward Mr. Fetchelder and Mr. Amos. I'm going to I'm going to throw it to the guy on my left,
022Mr. Amos. Transportation director. Does he want the mic? Huh? Yes, he does. Yeah, he gets the mic. Get the mic. The mic. I might pick you up if you talk loud. All right. This is something we've we've thought long and hard about and I know I brought it to u meeting and we came up with a plan that we really think we should proceed with this year. Um we would like to switch the way we are morning routes are going to stay the same. Nothing has changed in morning nighttime. We would like to have the high school buses. We'd have three We'd have three buses here um at the high school. We'd have all of our elementary would load exactly the same way we would do our transfer at the middle school. Um the reasons
023the reasons for this is the the problem is we're we have our elementary kids are on the school buses too long. They start loading at at Brad School at 3:10. They're not leaving here till 3:45. Some of the buses So these kids are on the bus for half an hour before they even start to go home. And this is a big discipline problem. This is it's hard on children. It's hard on any children to sit on the bus that long before you even get to start to go home. So what we would like to see happen is that the the shuttle the buses would shuttle to the middle school. We would do our our exchange right there. Another thing that it would do for us is it would stop when we leave the middle school
024on a normal day. We have 15 buses that have to get out on Highway two and they're all taking a left turn. All right? So, they're crossing traffic. We have buses that are not as patient as they should be. And if they were really patient, it would be in the long run. So what would happen is once we do our the middle school we do all our loading we would have actually seven buses that would head towards the high school we'd have six buses that could leave the elementary um entrance go towards popular and two buses would be just heading straight up we so they wouldn't be on the highway whatsoever we just we feel this is the best way we used to do this when I was a younger driver we used to do
025a uh collection like that. We just think the the one problem is and and Tanya, I'm sorry. The only problem is we're not going to be messing with times whatsoever. We're not messing I'm not going to say whatsoever. You might have some kids at your school about three or four minutes longer by the time we get this because we have three the last three buses at the elementary would shuttle to the middle school for the three buses that are leaving the high school. So we would have some mixing and you know kids moving but the last three would be at the last three. So there'd be a little bit of confusion there but we think after a while in ours I looked at the the best possible options for the elementary to have the lowest
026amount of kids or buses that come over to those schools. So it's not a bus of 40 kids that has to transfer it and be three to five kids. What the gohead when you talk about a small group, what would that be thinking potentially? The elementary um you said there'd be some students left over at the middle school. Oh, what it is is that you would have some middle school kids say that the three buses that come from the high school, you might have to hold those three buses of middle school right in front of your building until we show up. They would say the buses are here and then we could we could let all those three middle schools go and then we would do the exchange between the elementary and the high school.
027The high school as soon as I threw those three buses, they would all walk to their perspective buses. There's not a lot of kids at the high school that are going to ride over here. Is there I going back some history here, but there was I think everything used to transfer at the elementary school which turned into a bit chaotic and and that was the change for all of this stuff. So, with this having to happen at the middle school, um, are we going to have to have additional staff to make sure we don't have kids behaving poorly at the middle school getting off and running around and acting like kids, smart children? I I appreciate that question because yeah, it probably sounds simpler than if it's like, oh, we're going to have 40 or,
028you know, middle school students left over at school. They can't be unsupervised. We've got to make sure we've got people in a in a position and a place for that. So, I think we'll fine tune that in August. I'm confident we'll figure it out, but it could be something like that too or something maybe is we offer someone like to stay 10 extra minutes or something. We'll figure it out. So, and then currently, so the buses that are currently leaving NMS finish loading at 3:35. Yep. So at 3:35, all of our buses, okay, are leaving to start dispersing children as opposed to 3:45, 350 as it was historically. So you're 10 to 15 minutes faster. Mr. Like I said, that's the one piece of it. The other is the traffic. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Keep our
029buses off. Yeah. Well, mileage. Okay. I have two questions. I think the first one's already been answered because I was just trying to I really appreciated your problem statement with regards to the elementary school children staying on the buses for this. That's a that's a really I can see that being an issue. So, thank you for addressing that. And uh it sounds like we're going to cut at least 10 minutes, maybe 15 minutes off of that wait time period. Is that what we're looking at? Okay. Um yeah. So that's that's a good step in the right direction. Logistically, I'm trying to picture 15 buses at the middle school. We're already doing it right now. That So there's no space. This is what this is what we've been doing. Okay. So there no space constraints there.
030We have no They pretty much all fit because we go diagonal. We come in diagonally. Uh the last bus might hang over the edge a little bit, but you you have vision of all if they if Tanya came out the front, she would see all 15. Okay. I wasn't sure they all 15 years. And realistically, that's probably going to save additional time because people leaving the middle school making a right or going straight aren't having to come back instead sit in line at on F. You know what I mean? So, I mean, you're saving that trip back to go to Wehei or to Amnocon or wherever they're at. I think the answer is okay. So, there's a lot of traffic going to the elementary school with parents picking up kids. Um, this doesn't create any
031additional congestion, will it? Normally, by the time we're leaving the middle school, the parents at the elementary school are they don't mingle when they come out of the elementary school. Thankfully, we have the two separate parking lots. So, all the buses come over to the middle school and with the exception of the few that come to pick up the middle school, all the rest of them go out first and then the middle school buses or buses come out of the middle school and they're already works. Our drivers do a really good job just trying to break up the traffic. Yeah, you can get your buses okay from the elementary school to the middle school without a problem. Yep. That would all be the same. that really that that's not changing. Only thing changing is when
032we do the shuttle at the middle school logistically have a bus coming to the high school that picks up one student and then ends up going west. It's fun. This building has the fewest bus riders compared to our middle school and elementary school of course because high school they drive. So running all 15 buses up here is definitely not one efficient because we're loading very few students and two is time consuming because we're all turning left on Highway 2 and a half. Um I asked one busing question that's a little bit off topic but I got you. In my in my neighborhood there are three families in close proximity and the bus makes three stops to pick up the kids at the end of each driveway. Is it that without sidewalks they can't walk at
033all down the road? I mean, they're, you know, from here to those trees over there kind of thing. It just seems like it' be a walk to the curve. They should have to be picked up in front of the place. They shouldn't be walking. They're not. I'm saying you're making three stops for pretty minimal walking. He's asking about having one central bus. It just seems like you could shorten bus routes. But we can definitely look into that. Yeah. If I knew which one you were talking about. Yeah, I can tell I can get to you after the meeting. I just curious how many of those are out there and what we could do to our busing if we only big city. Yeah, I believe we have a couple of pickups. Okay. So, this is procedure.
034So, is there any buses? So, maybe this doesn't happen. So, some some staff have students get picked up here in the mornings. Yep. But there's no students that come here in the evening, is there? There's students that come here. Is there a bus that would come? Yes. Yes. There's still bus coming. We still have a bus that's going to leave middle school. We'll have a bus that for for uh teachers, children that will come here and we'll have a bus that'll go to the elementary that will shuttle. Okay. Any any students that go to their their parents at that school. Yeah. I I I personally think it's uh I I think originally when we when we switched the bus routes to make sure elementary got picked up first because kids were having a difficult time
035getting a seat and and that stuff. I think that was a good move. Um but I think with with time everything changes a little bit. You have different looks and needs and stuff. And I I appreciate the the look into this. I know uh majority of parents are going to be appreciative that their kids are on the bus less and safety is always a concern. So, and there's no motion or anything needed, just a uh procedural things. So, can I just say one more thing? Absolutely. Do it last year when we eliminated a route. I ran the numbers on that. We saved 33,000 miles last year from the year before. Well, we said we were not being very efficient. It was true. I didn't even share that with the sandbag. Cody, 33,000. Well, I'd be
036interested in knowing what mileage we're going to save with this. I mean, how far is it from the middle school to here? That's it. 45. I think you'll see it more in the hours. Yeah. Highway two. Yeah. Because if that 45 doesn't work, it doesn't help. It helps a little bit, but we're just cranking through them. There's traffic. A lot of cars, a lot of buses going on the free entrance to a major highway. Yeah. Do they still have a passing zone right in front of the middle school and high school? Did they eliminate that? I will I won't call it a passing zone. It's a it's a quick No, but there's a but there there's a dotted line there, isn't there? How is there a dotted line there? vehicle turning left, you can go
037around for 10 or 15 years. It's not a passing zone. It's a It's a bypass lane. So, a vehicle turning left, you can go around is what it's for. It's not an actual I thought there I thought actually the middle line, the center line. Yeah, you're asking about the center line. Center line, I believe. Oh, it's dotted. Ded. That should not be dotted. The separation between east and west traffic is dotted. Yes. See, you can have that. I've asked about that for years. It's like I I can just see somebody pulling out. Yeah. Especially a 16 year old kid. Yeah. Think I seriously I I've asked about it multiple times when I was a I just thought that was the worst thing you've ever built on a paint. Anybody on the county board? State patrol
038mine. As long as it's the right yellow, we're good to go. Just tell him Carl said it was okay. All right. Item B, communications received. Mr. Morren. Yeah, we uh we got our social media report card. Um uh was in your packet. Uh we have this month we had a total of uh 4126 followers on Facebook, a growth of 77 and an average monthly um uh reach of 18,442 uh people. So Instagram you can see as well have a,087 followers that that's a growth of 42 and uh we reach uh monthly reach out for that is 3,45. So um nice shout out um to our people at social media world that that make that for us. That is all. That's all. All right. Short and sweet. Item C, school handbooks and emergency management plans. Yep.
039you um you had your um school handbooks, emergency plans in your packet uh for you to look at uh and go through. Uh we will look at the August meeting to approve um those handbooks. If you're looking to try to get yourself to sleep quickly, let you crack that baby open. Just like it's riveting stuff. It's going to be a test. Uh item D, the maintenance report. uh pretty standard on the maintenance end of things. Our our facility crews are are hard at summer maintenance. Uh so if you were to walk the halls of any of our buildings, you're going to see a lot of desks and chairs and file cabinets out in the hallways as they uh clear out all the rooms and uh really give them a deep clean u and then put
040new new coats of wax down or shampooing carpets. So pretty standard operating procedure for us. Um I just I've caught all the all the buildings and every one of them feels they are where they need to be if not a little bit ahead which is good news. Um because yeah we'll be opening school back up here before we know what to do. So pretty basic with summer maintenance that way. One other thing I want to throw in. We are going to go live with our auction items. We talked about this in the past. So it's just really a reminder the the buses that we no longer need. We'll use Wisconsin surplus auction to try to get as much revenue from those sales as possible. And then there'll also be some other items from Mr. Charlie's
041in our techad program. And these are various woodworking tools that one of two things. Either they no longer use or we've bought replacements for. So they've been in storage for in some cases a year or two or three if not more. So it is time for us to get rid of those as well. So, you'll kind of see that lot through Wisconsin surplus. So, anybody in TV land out there, uh, keep an eye open for that if you're interested in those items. Has the gym floor been done yet? Uh, they will do that. Uh, it's scheduled to start Monday. That's down for like a week, right? Uh, two weeks. Yep. I just talked to Stalker Sports Floors does that for us. They may sneak in here this weekend. He's going to call me. We'll make
042sure that they can they can get in and if he can get a crew up here to try to get that done as quick as possible because we know our gyms are always in demand. Which floors again? They do all of them. Of course. All them will be refinished. They're not sanding them. They're just Yeah. resurfacing I should say. Yeah. We're not breaking them down. Eventually we will have to it's it's on my list of things to do. the the middle school in particular is very much past due for a a complete overhaul. Sanding all the way down to to the bare wood and then repainting quartz and then sealing it back up. So that one will be on the radar for sure. NES is probably not far behind on that. the high school we
043have done and trying to keep up with is for sure our main competition floor and the upper gym is one more sand in her should last us 20 years. See? Yep, that'll work. That's the upper floor. There's one more sand in. Yes, that's what we're told. There's, you know, only so many Yeah. you can do with it before you run out of real estate to sand. back here. All right. Item E, the WSB correspondence and legislative report. Is that you, Mr. It is. All right. Um, all right. So, the 202527 budget process has come to a close and Governor Eer signed into law the new compromised budget deal. Um the deal saw special education reimbursement raised to an estimated 45% by the second year of the budget with and high-cost special education to an estimated
04490%. Um it also saw an additional onetime $30 million invested into mental health supports um and the roughly 40 million in early literacy funding appropriate appropriated last budget finally released. It also saw full funding of the office of school safety a minimal increase in positive modifications to transportation aid. Um, I did include the full breakdown of all of the spending, I won't go through it. Um, but, uh, I'm guessing to Cody's um, all of the other things happening in the world, the general aid per pupil aid low revenue ceiling uh, saw zero increases. Um, there was some changes in definitions around um, uh, revenue limits, etc. Um there was some transportation aids and the high-cost uh transportation program. So hopefully we can reap some of those benefits. Um but otherwise the full report on all
045of the funding is included in the WSA WV report for July. How big a deal is that stuff for us? Any quick um yeah 10,000 foot summary. Uh happy with the additional special education funding. Um, and I appreciate um, and have emailed our representatives to say thank you. It's nice to to let them know. I know they don't hear that that often. Um, there's, as with any budget, there's things you're going to like and things you wish more of. Um, without any increase in general aid or per pupil aid, there's still some of those inflationary things that we'll deal with. I'm right now in process of kind of putting it all together and and we'll have additional conversations here in the coming months because uh yeah September is not that far away when we'll have
046our annual budget meeting. So it's good to know because the initial conversations were that this budget at least initially they were thinking was going to go a lot longer before they had an agreement. At least now I know the game and we can kind of start looking at the future a little bit a little bit clearer. The uh the transportation aid portion I know historically we've qualified for that. So do we qualify for that $50 increase as well? Yes. So we'll uh any student that lives 12 miles or more from our our buildings um will get an extra $50 a year for transport which will help us. Um absolutely. They did. It's a what we call some certain pot of money. So, it used to have to be 140% over the state average. We surpassed
047that by far. They moved it down to 135%. So, what does that really mean? Essentially, more school districts going to qualify. So, I anticipate that our transportation aid will drop a little bit because there's more districts tapping that resource. Um, how that is going to affect us, it's tough for me to say right now. But so on one hand, great. On the other hand, I anticipate probably fewer dollars because more schools will qualify for that support. All right. The CIS 12 report. Oh, sorry. We did not meet last month. Um, so there is not a report this month. What is your meeting for this month? Do you want me to look make it longer? I thought I thought maybe you were just like John. I got so much stuff in my head. All right. Uh,
048item G, donations. Um, there were no donations this month. All right. Item H, su student staff and community recognition. You know, one one thing I wanted to uh say is I wanted to um give a shout out to um to Jenny and Brett and um Wendy for um Jenny and Brett did a good job of helping Wendy with the audit uh last week and Wendy did an outstanding job getting preparing for the audit and getting uh everything to the auditors. Um and um just want to say how um thankful I am for those three ladies working in our office to do a great job. I can actually piggyback on that because I got a phone call from whoever those people are asking me a handful of questions and saying that uh everybody was wonderful to
049work with and they don't always get that. So we got a great team. Good. All right. I can add one thing. On Saturday, they had the Brady Van Ho memorial at the basketball court at the Hawthorne um baseball field and there's a basketball court there dedicated to him. So, we had a thing on Saturday to get the news there and everything. So, Pete, where is that at again? The Hawthorne Ballfield. At the Hawthorn. Nice things there. Very nice. There was a uh well, I forgot to Google that. There was a yesterday there was a memorial service for a gentleman named Clyde Grubley who uh graduated from Northwestern would have been about 19 78ish. Um anyways he passed away and in the obituary and his family and his request was all financial donations that would have
050been given to that. He had a couple of things designated, but one of them was Northwestern High School football program. So, not saying there's money coming, but uh but it was nice that uh after all those years was still dear to his heart. So, um one more thing too, um Miss Alexis has uh uh completed her uh program and has graduated with her masters now for um her uh principal license. So, congratulations. [Applause] Slow shot. Yeah. All right. Uh, now is the time for the comments from the audience. Let's see here. Now that we have