001[Music] So um we stand for the pledge please. [Music] >> I pledge to the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [Music] >> And again thank you everyone for your patience. All right. I would entertain a motion for to approve tonight's agenda. >> I move to approve the agenda as presented. >> A motion from Tracy, a second from Rick. Any questions? All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppos. Motion carries. Motion on the minutes. >> I'll make a motion to approve the minutes for the regular meeting held on September 8th, 2025. >> Second. Have a motion from Rick, a second from Ed. Any questions? All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same
002sign. Motion carries. Action on the vouchers. >> I move to approve general checking account vouchers totaling $327,395.33 as presented. >> I'll second that. >> A motion from Tracy, a second from Rick. Any questions on the vouchers? All those in favor, please say I. I. >> Oppose. Same site. Motion carries. No public comment. Great. Thank you. And we move on to our superintendent update. All right. Thank you. [Music] >> That conference was on September 9 17th through 19th last week, Wednesday through Friday in Madison. And the title of the conference was creating conditions for success which I think those four words creating conditions for success really describe a vital uh part of of my job responsibility. Uh and and that same job responsibility for superintendents and district administrators across the state. Um some highlights from the
003conference included a greetings from both Governor Ivers and from state superintendent uh Underly. uh I attended sessions that included legal updates on act 10 and also on the relationships between policies, handbooks and contracts. Other sessions that I attended including building a strong leadership team, having a positive impact on students, families and community, leading through change and legislative updates at both the federal and the state level. So, it was a really valuable conference uh and uh enjoyed having it in Madison because it's a short short travel uh spot for the conference, too. Uh the next agenda item on the superintendent update is the Red Hawk highlights and and this being the second board meeting of the month, our admin team will come up and give highlights from things that have happened since the start of the
004school year at each of their schools. It looks like Marsha is going to start. All right. Good evening. In these first 15 days of Thank you. Their work allows us to begin identifying student needs and planning interventions and supports that will help each child grow. Um, on top of the academics, our schools are starting to build excitement, of course, for the upcoming homecoming because dressup week is always a big thrill at our levels. And most importantly, our teachers have been very intentional about building strong relationships with their students and creating classroom communities where children can feel safe, connected, and ready to learn. So, we're off to a great school year >> at North Side. Uh many of the same things that Marca had shared. We're uh coming up on the end of I Ready testing.
005So, getting that data so that we can start uh forming groups and seeing what kids need more and um supporting them in every way possible. Homecoming, the students and staff of course are looking forward to that. On top of all of that, uh two more things. one, our parents group. We had our first meeting last week attended by some of our staff members as well as uh bringing in some new families from other schools. And then lastly, outdoor ed. Our staff's working hard to make sure because we have 27 sixth graders who will be attending starting next week. Not next week, the following week though for 8 days um outdoor ed. And it really is a team effort, including the families coming in to learn the information to best support students on their one night
006away from home. Good evening. We have a new course at the middle school this year that's intro to computer science and our students are absolutely loving it. Mr. Thomas came down from the high school for this class and there has been excitement galore as the students are in the hallways racing their robots and having some friendly competition from one another. So that class has been an amazing addition in our offerings for our students. Um today we continue to work on a communication log that students are kind of taking the ownership of to be able to be at the hub of communication between home and school when it comes to the advisory activities, their ready scores and progress and some notes we'll be be taking in advisory. So that communication log will um we've been working
007on that but it kicks off to families tomorrow. So we'll be looking for some feedback from families on that. Today, our web leaders went to the high ropes course, which is a great leadership opportunity for those leaders who are impacting our incoming seventh graders. And then finally, Friday night is our first wreck night of the year. So, if you are looking for something to do and you want a lot of Mountain Dew and cotton candy, you're welcome to come and join us at our recck night from 5:00 to 7:00 on Friday. Thank you. >> Sounds like fun. All right. um at the at the high school. Uh it is uh last week we had our Pathways to the Future event that is a a conference for our parents and we didn't have necessarily the attendance
008that we were hoping for. It's a a pro program that we are continuing to grow, but it is a we had uh actually over a dozen different sessions options for parents. uh partly looking at how to help students pick careers and we had panels in to talk about various career paths, but a lot of uh pathway program or programs as well such as how to find your place at Milton High School, understanding uh uh how the uh direct admit to or Wisconsin guarantee works, how to improve your APA or ACT score, uh how to understand an IEP at the high school level, etc. So, we had lots of workshops that I'm proud of the staff they put those together. Uh we're going to continue to grow uh that event and think about the best way
009to get that information out to our parents. Uh it is as was mentioned it's the third week of school and everything seems to be rolling. Uh very active recently is FFA FBLA fishing club and we're starting the marching band season. Mr. Checks in the front row. I have to talk about marching band. Uh the marching band was going to start their season this last weekend. They were scheduled to march at a new event at Northern uh Northern Illinois NIU down in Decal, Illinois. Uh we got rained out. Uh the rain doesn't work well with our synthesizers and all those morimbas which don't do well in the rain. Uh but we will be starting competition season uh south on Saturday, Wakawa West on Sunday coming up. We're excited for that. Yes. And homecoming I heard is
010coming next week as well. So at the high school obviously that's a big week for us as well as the rest of the district. Wednesday night we have the activities night. On Thursday I make note that is the wall of honor uh inductions. We're very very proud of that program. Uh we have four outstanding uh inductees this year. So that is at 7 o'clock on Thursday. Uh they include Ivan Fitz Randolph, uh Theresa Roo, Rod Hilton, and Bill Shrunk are the four inductees this year. So we expect a good showing for that crowd. U some neat neat educators there. Uh on Friday obviously is going to be our pep assembly. Uh the parade is at 2:00. We have the football game followed by the bonfire. On Saturday, we are have it's alumni day. So, we
011have I'll be helping with some tours. The class of 1985, Mr. Snow, and we'll be there in the morning. The class of 1975 will be giving a tour in the afternoon. We'll have a dance that night. So, it is an exciting week. Uh, and then on Monday, we'll celebrate with a PD day. Uh, and so our staff is actually busy planning for that. Math is going to be reviewing Desmos. That's the next um pilot program they'll be working on. And then the rest of the staff will be working on standardsbased assessment with our folks uh our consultant from CISA 6. Thank you. Just a quick HR update. Uh we have our HR committee on Wednesday. So, but I wanted to share with you all that we have a new HR specialist in uh at the
012district office. Alexis Nelson is coming from the private sector and she started on September 8th and is learning the ropes. So, you'll see Alexis at our next HR committee meeting. And uh yeah, just a quick update. [Music] >> Thank you to all of the administrators for giving updates on things that are happening at all of their schools. And I want to reinforce that as I've been out in schools since the start of the school year, I've seen just wonderful things happening uh both in classrooms and in extracurricular activities. So, it's it's great to have everybody back and and to have the 2526 school year off to such an outstanding start thanks to the work of all of our staff. >> And I'll just give one school board update. The school board will be in the
013homecoming parade this year. So, please reminder to buy your candy and be ready for those of you who are able to be there. And we're excited to be a part of the homecoming event. It's going to be fun. >> And any questions for anyone or anything anyone wants to add? >> I attended the Pathways event and I was able to get into several of the presentations. I kind of roamed and I went home and said to my husband, "I wish that had been there when our daughter went to high school. I wish we had attended something like that with her." I It was outstanding. And any parent of of a young person who's looking or curious about a career path, it's probably the best way for them to get um ideas and have their questions
014answered and it it just was outstanding. [Music] >> The next agenda item in the superintendent's update is the Redhawk recognition. Uh this is a return of the Redhawk recognition for the 2526 school year. Uh it is a program where staff have an opportunity to nominate their colleagues uh for board recognition. So we have uh our first five awardes for this school year who are with us tonight. They're going to be introduced by the board member representatives from each of their schools. Uh when your turn is up, if you can come to the front uh when your name is called and um stand next to the board member as your uh recognition is being handed out. And then once all five have been recognized, we're going to do a group picture of the five staff members
015and the board members. >> Just one correction, Mr. Dummer is going to do all of the awards tonight. >> All right. Thank you. >> Yep. >> All right. Excited to bring this back. It's always great to recognize our staff. Um, Abby Lambert could come up first. So, Abby was nominated by Nicole Schaefer. Uh, and Nicole wrote in her uh uh nomination for Abby, "Ever since Abby has arrived in the district, she has strived to elevate the music program. She does this through great musical productions, advocating for all students to have a place in her room and activities, working tirelessly to fund raise and allow students to grow and shine through their artistic abilities. We are lucky to have her. Congratulations. >> Oh, thanks. Thank you. >> Next up, Rene Smith. Renee is a kindergarten teacher
016at East and she was nominated by Joanie Bulman. Uh Joanie wrote, "Renee comes to work with a smile on her face each and every day and a positive attitude. She is a wonderful teacher. My own daughter had her 20 years ago. And her passion for teaching shows each and every day. She is caring and compassionate teacher that shows up for her students in school each and every day. Congratulations. Next up, Crystal Gross. Crystal is a sixth grade teacher at North Side and she was nom nominated by Shauna Ho. Uh Shauna wrote, "She always jumps in where she can and is positive and reliable for staff to inter interact with as well as with student interactions. She has had two of my children in her class and they loved her teaching style and approachability as well
017has as well as her passion for teaching math which really related to my children in a way that they felt confident and encouraged in their math ability while still striving to push themselves further. Congratulations. Uh number four, Kelly Smith. Kelly is a sixth grade teacher at North Side and she was nominated by Anna Larson. Sometimes she refers to herself as the cool Mrs. Smith. >> It is true. It is true. >> So, as you read this, I think it makes sense. Uh, Anna wrote, "Kelly always goes above and beyond for her students and co-workers. She always keeps things light-hearted and brings humor into every situation, even the hard ones. Kelly shows her love and support to all her students every day and her appreciation for her co-workers, admin, and support staff every day with a
018smile and a witty comment. >> Congratulations. >> Last up tonight, Tony Jorgensson. Tony is a special ed para profofessional at East and she was nominated by Bethany Scott. Bethany wrote, "Tony goes above and beyond by making each student and staff member feel seen and special. Over the years, she has taken requests and painted canvases reflecting the interests of those at Milton East. Her work and dedication out of school hours to paint hundreds of canvases is an example of her commitment to building relationships and a positive school culture. Congratulations. all your friends. Jen, [Music] >> before we close out that portion of the uh superintendent's update or that that part of the superintendent's update, I want to again uh congratulate our um award winners tonight and also uh let the board know that we have a
019number of other people who have been nominated. So we will be bringing those at the second board meeting of every month. Uh so we'll have uh some more staff members coming at each of those board meetings once a month. We also are looking for opportunities to bring student groups uh for recognition as we have uh outstanding uh things happening which we do throughout the year with with our students. So uh you'll see that coming up at future board meetings too. The next thing on the superintendent's update is an enrollment update. And uh this past Friday, September 18th was the third Friday. September 19th was the third Friday count. Um and that's the official count uh that the state does each year uh in the fall. We'll get those results back from DPI in about two
020weeks and we will have that as an agenda item um at the October 13th uh board meeting where we bring the official uh count from the third Friday count. Uh today I just want to give an unofficial update. It it's looking like we're going to have a slight increase in our overall kindergarten through 12th grade enrollment from last year. Uh but a a larger decrease in 4K enrollment. And if you remember last year, we had our largest 4K class that we've ever had. And we and every district that I spoke with at the conference last week is seeing a fairly significant decline in 4K enrollment for last year. So, um, ours has dropped quite a bit from last year's record high, but it's even lower than what our normal had been for a few years
021prior to that. And it's something that districts are seeing across the state as far as 4K enrollment. Uh between those two things, we're expecting a a very slight decrease in 4K through 12th grade overall enrollment for the coming year. But again, that will be official at our next board meeting coming up. Um when we look back over the last 10 or so years, we've had very stable enrollment. We've had some slight increases and slight decreases year-over-year, uh but overall very stable enrollment for the past 10 plus years. And again, that official enrollment and our resident count and our open enrollment in and outs uh for this year, those counts will be coming uh at the next board meeting on October 13th. Excuse me. Any questions on those topics? >> Uh quick question, Rich. Uh thanks
022for that info. In two weeks, will we have an idea what the state overall registration is? I mean, if if we're down slightly, is the entire state down slightly more or flat or will you have that by then? >> If we have that info, I'll bring it uh to that next board meeting on the 13th. Uh I'm not certain that we'll have it for the whole state >> at that time. >> But I think that's always a good thing to look at is is how do we compare to and what's the overall trend across the state. Um, one last thing on that enrollment topic. We know that uh there's a lot of new housing going up across our district both last spring and summer and continuing this fall. Uh, some of that have some of
023those locations have uh housing or have people residents living in it and resident students. Uh, so that'll impact our resident student count. One of the things that we've seen that I want to preview is that that also might have a an impact on our open and roll out because we've had a number of families move into our district because there's new housing available, but they're moving from a neighboring district where their students have always attended and they want to and then they have to open roll out if they want their students to remain at that school. So, we'll get those official numbers, but I I wouldn't be at all surprised if we see an increase in our resident count, but also an increase from previous years in the number of open enroll for that very
024reason. Uh, and then the last agenda item under the superintendent's update is school board appreciation week is coming up on October 5th through 11th. We don't have another school board meeting before then. So, I wanted to share that school board members roles and the school board as a group uh can often times be very underappreciated, but it's an incredibly vital and important role. Um, we have a strong school district because we have and we have had strong school board uh school board as a whole and strong school board members. So, um, we will be recognizing the school board and and showing appreciation to the school board that week, uh, through our family newsletter and social media and our web page. But I want to use our time right now to, uh, also on behalf of
025our entire staff and our community, thank each of the seven of you for the work that you do as a school board. It's very, very much appreciated. >> Thank you. All right, we are on to new business discussion and possible action on the 2526 Milton High School extended field trip requests. Mr. Billhorn. [Music] All right, be right after you. The same thing, but we have [Music] we've planned out in the summer 2027 most international trips that have become quite popular. Are there any questions about the trips? Let this >> I got a question. So, some of these are pretty far out >> and I know it takes a lot of time to plan for those. Let's just say that there's something happening the destination. I mean at what and obviously we wouldn't put our kids
026at risk, but I mean is that's >> So any of our international trips we work with and there's a couple different companies we require our staff to work with a a company that does work with state department. So if there's a travel ban or if there's a safety we ran into this remember if you remember once we we stopped a trip to uh Europe when when Ukraine is invaded by Russia. So we actually we can trip because of that. So we do take a look at those things. We work with the companies obviously we want to make sure that we're able to get the students monies back but that's something we are paying attention to. >> We hope that doesn't happen but yeah. >> Sure. Thank you. But there's there's examples of press. >> Okay.
027>> I'll make a motion to approve the 2526 MHS extended field trip request as presented. >> Second. >> I have a motion from Rick, a second from John. Any questions? >> All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Thank you. And next we have uh middle school extended field trip requests. Yes. So, I know that this trip used to be an annual thing years and years ago and last year was when we brought it back. So, in my mind, this is kind of now second annual and hopefully to continue that on. Uh the goal is to take 40 students in four middle school chef rooms to DC in April, leaving on Monday on bus trip and returning on Friday. >> How do you pick the 40? Or is
028it first come first serve? >> Great question. So we started putting out information last spring and then continue to share information with students and families. We currently have 51 students interested and once hopefully this is board approved then we can have the official meeting of students and families. From that time we may have some students taper off otherwise it will be first come first serve with the registration payment. >> Thank you. I'll to approve the 2526 Milton Middle School extended field trip request as presented. I'll >> second. >> I have a motion from Tracy, a second from Rick. Any questions? >> All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppos same sign. Motion carries. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> All right, we move on to our miscellaneous items. Action on
029the staffing report. I'll make a motion to approve the staff and report as presented. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion from Mica, second from Tracy. Any questions? >> All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Action on gifts and donations. >> I will make a motion to approve the gifts and donations with gratitude. >> I'll second this. >> I have a motion from John, a second from Rick. Any questions? >> Rich, I do have a question. Um, it says new Schillberg Park sign. Can you elaborate a little bit on what that is? [Music] >> I can. Yes, [Music] that amount. And as you can see there was uh a little under $11,000 was donated by uh a group called the the family and friends of Shelberg
030Park. Uh FA Shelberg uh passed away and it was uh donated to the district in her honor and it's replacing the the sign at the entrance uh of the park which was showing some wear and tear. >> That's very kind. Thank you. Any other questions? All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Meetings. >> Uh we have a a few different meetings uh committee meetings and other things coming up. I'll go through those in chronological order uh between now and the next board meeting. Uh tomorrow evening is the region 13 uh WASBY meeting in Burlington. Um that again is tomorrow evening. Uh at that uh WASBY will recognize four of our board members for reach a new level. Uh John, Ed, Rick, and Joe. Um if folks that
031aren't able to attend that, we will bring that recognition uh back and present that at our next uh board meeting. We have an HR committee meeting as Chris Tukandorf mentioned. That's on Wednesday of this week at 3:45 in the first floor conference room. Again, that's HR Wednesday at 3:45. Um it isn't an official meeting, but as mentioned earlier, homecoming week is next week, September 29th through October 4th, uh including uh board representation in the parade on Friday the 3rd at 2 p.m. And then the following week, we have two committee meetings, uh both on the same evening. The finance committee meeting will be at 6:00 on Monday, October 6th, and that will be in the first floor conference room. And that uh is scheduled to be a pretty short meeting uh that will follow be
032followed by the governance committee meeting also on Monday, October 6 at 6:30 here in the PDC. So again, those two committee meetings are both on Monday, October 6th. 6:00 p.m. is the finance committee. 6:30 p.m. is the governance committee. And our next regularly scheduled board meeting is three weeks from tonight on Monday, October 13th at 6:30 p.m. And one more item that's that's coming up, it's not until 2026, but the uh Wisconsin State uh school board education convention, uh the dates for that have been set. It is on January 21st through January 23rd, and that is in Milwaukee. And we're giving the board an update on that because registration is on Monday, November 3rd, both for the convention and for hotel rooms. And uh we want to make sure that board members have an opportunity
033to look over their calendars. Uh let Chelsea know if you're able to attend and if so, which dates and if you'll need a hotel room. So Chelsea will be communicating out with the board, but look at your calendars, block dates off. uh and we've had great attendance from our board over the last few years and it's a really valuable conference for board members to uh gather more information, do some learning together, and also interact with school board members from across the state. >> I'm going to add just one more thing to put on your calendar. I had mentioned at the last meeting we're going to do our second board development of the school year and right now we're looking at doing it after our board meeting on November 9th. We looked at the agenda from
034last year for the first meeting in November. It was pretty short. So, we should be able to get through that quickly and then we'll do our next board development or the 10th, I'm sorry. No. Oh, I'm still on 26. Yes, the 10th. Yep. All right. Any other meeting dates? Okay. I would entertain a motion to adjurnn I move we >> second. >> Uh I'm going to a motion from Rick, a second from Ed. All those in favor, please say I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. And Carrie, thank you for Yeah. Thank you. [Music]