001We believe in opportunities, achievement, and community for all. Our mission, the school district of Milton, in partnership with the community, prepares our students for achievement and lifetime readiness by providing opportunities for all. Uh, pledge of >> allegiance [Music] to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I would entertain a motion to approve tonight's agenda. >> I um I'll make a motion to approve the agenda as presented. >> Second. >> A motion from Rick and second from Tracy. Any questions or comments on the agenda? >> All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppose sign. All right. I would entertain a motion in the minutes. I'll move to approve the minutes for the regular
002meeting held regular scheduled meeting held on July 14th, 2025 as presented. >> I'll second that. >> A motion from John, a second from Rick. Any questions, comments? >> All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppos. >> Motion carries. All right, we are on to vouchers. I move to approve general checking account vouchers totaling1,313,23182 and $6,598 void as presented. >> Second >> motion from Tracy, a second from John. Any questions or comments on the vouchers? >> All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppose sign. >> All right. Motion carries. Can I just ask I don't when I checked no one had signed up for public comment. Verify that please. >> Thank you. Thank you Chris. All right we are on to superintendent update redh hot highlights. >> Yeah with um
003summer school we gave an update on at the last board meeting. So there hasn't been as much action in the schools but one of the things that I want to highlight is that our annual student registration started uh today and runs until August 10th. So, and I know that first day of registration is always a busy day. So, our our staff here that work on that had a lot of calls and uh we have it's online registration, but we have people available both through our tech office and through our district office to help people that either don't have access to technology, they can come in and use technology here or at one of the schools or if uh they have questions on things. So uh we encourage folks to get registered if they haven't yet.
004Um they also bus registration is also open now. So they do that uh with go rightway. And uh otherwise we are prepping for August. Um fall sports and activities get rolling in August. Uh and that'll be coming up before you know it. One highlight next week is uh we have some administrator training uh that we're doing next week. to give an update on uh the details on that and how that went uh at our next meeting. >> Great. I'd like to um thank the high school, the tech department, Jeremy and and the staff there. Um the clear instructions that were given for student pickup. My student was able to accomplish picking up without any parental support. So, great job. Thank you guys for working so hard on that. We had laptop pickup at the high
005school. And I guess we also have the um orientation session for ninth graders uh today. And Joanie showed that there were 150 incoming ninth graders that took part in that. It's a great way for them to be ready for the start of the school year. >> Any other questions? right for your up to preliminary 2526 enrollment. >> Yeah, the Chelsea will put the data on the board, but I'll kind of walk through it. Um, I really want to emphasize, you probably saw that I really wanted to emphasize when you when you looked at it that this is preliminary data. As I shared, today was the first day of of registration. So, this is our enrollment as of Thursday of last week and and literally as of 11:30 a.m. of at of last week because later
006in the day on Thursday it changed and Friday it changed and today it changed. Uh there are always families that haven't registered yet, either new to the district or they this is their first child that's going to be starting 4K or kindergarten uh and they haven't registered them yet. And there also uh typically our families that move out of the district during the summer and they don't typically or sometimes they don't let us know and we don't find out until they register in another district and then that district contacts us for record. So uh these numbers will change between now and the start of the year and our enrollment is official on the third Friday in September with that third Friday count. In that table on the left though, you can see by each grade
007level uh what our enrollment was uh as of Thursday. Uh you could say um the prek our special ed students. We have 18 uh special ed prek and then 4K under 51 and then kindergarten all the way through 12th grade. Um in that next column of that table, it's split out by group. uh kindergarten through third grade we have,87 students uh for fifth and sixth at North Side, 781 that are registered uh grades seven and 8, 536 and 1,59 at the high school. And then uh because we have multiple elementary schools, I broke that up by enrollment at each grade level at each of our four elementary schools. You can see that on the table on the right side. And again that goes from excuse me from prek uh through 4K kindergarten grades 1 2
008and three. Uh you can see that kindergarten is our largest class uh of that group and our typically as students move through the system we gain uh students at at different grade levels. So if you remember last year our 4K class was our largest 4K class that we've ever had. So that this is that same group of students rolling up to kindergarten and adding um probably about 45 students more than they had as a as a 4K class if if that's the size of the class that we end up with this fall. Uh you can see uh for each of our four schools how many students there are at each school in the table underneath that that's broken down by the average class size both for each school and each grade level. Uh at the
009bottom of each column it's the average class size uh at that school. I didn't incor use preK and 4K in those totals uh because 4K will still be gaining students um between now and the start of the school year. It wouldn't be really accurate to to loop that into the overall average class size and then on the right side you can see that average class size for each grade and the overall K3 total of 21.9. And then at North Side, as I had shared on the on the first table we looked at, it has the number in each grade at North Side and the total number at North Side. You can see the average class size for grades four, five, and six, too. And I'm going to one more time emphasize that these are preliminary
010numbers. um we know that they'll change almost on a daily basis between now and and the first day of school and then even after the first day of school change some between then and the third Friday count. One other thing that I want to note, um, because of some housing growth, um, we know that we've picked up some new students as as there's been, uh, some housing, new houses going up around the district and new, uh, apartment complexes going up around the district. And as those new places to live pop up, uh, we're keeping an eye on which attendance area they're in because we want to monitor uh, the number of students in each of our attendance areas. We do that every year. As we looked at it, not only for this coming year that'll
011be starting here uh in September, but also for 2627 uh we don't anticipate any need to make any changes to our attendance areas. Um definitely not for this coming year or we would have gone through that process already. by even previewing the following year. We will loop back to that in in uh this fall once we have the overall enrollment numbers and uh and then maybe loop back to it in uh early winter to see what those housing trends look like. But if we if we are looking at the need to make any changes to our attendance areas, we would be uh going through that process in plenty of time to be able to message that out to families and kind of talk through the impact that any potential changes would have, but that's at
012least two years down the road. >> Questions, comments? >> I don't have a question. I just want to say thanks for putting that together. That's pretty to get an idea kind of where we're at. So, thank you. >> I have a question before we leave that subject, Rich. Um, those numbers at Northside uh concern me. At what point do we add a section? 27 is a lot of kids. >> 27 is big. We were in that range at North Side. We have been for a couple years. Um, in that 25 to 27 range. Um, it's a lot of students in our class, but our our teachers are are strong teachers and and they can address that. But I'm comfortable with that number of sections and that number of uh class students in a class for
013this coming year, but it's always something that we'll take a look at. >> How many sections of sixth grade are >> for sixth grade? >> Yeah, sixth grade. Well, >> and is that the same for fifth? >> 10. And then fourth grade is a nine. >> If people at home couldn't hear that, we have nine sections in fourth grade and then 10 in both fifth and sixth. >> I echo Joe's concern. I saw that number and it does seem to to be pretty high. >> We'll look at as we go through registration, we'll take a look at how that number is doing. I think one of the things that we've done in the past is we've rather than adding another classroom, we've provided some math and reading support so that for students math and reading
014classes they can have smaller numbers. So that's something that we'll take a look at. >> Anything else? Any other questions? >> Thank you so much. I am now really curious to see what it looks like when school starts. All right, we are on to the human resource committee report. >> Thanks. The uh HR committee met last week on July 23rd. First item on the agenda is update on 2526 staffing. On April 21st, administration shared with HR committee the need to add an additional kindergarten teacher at harmony due to the kindergarten enrollment. As the summer has progressed, the Department of Student Services has identified the need to add two special ed aids, one at East and one at West, due to two new students attending for the upcoming school year. Department of Teaching and Learning has
015proposed an increase in the advanced learning teacher, formerly known as gifted and talented position from 0.8 FTE to 1.0 zero FTE for the upcoming school year due to staffing challenges and changing instructional needs across the district. This position will continue to work on 0.8 FE at North Side and 0.2 FE at the elementary level. Any questions about that topic? Next up is review of proposed additions and changes to the employee handbook 42526. HR committee has uh been continuing our handbook conversation um that started at our June 17th meeting. The attached packet includes the pages of the employee handbook that that the HR department is proposing changes to. I would encourage all board members to read through the proposed changes and contact Chris or Rich if you have any questions. Um, next steps will be to
016bring um this handbook for final board review and possible approval at our meeting on August 11th. >> Did anybody have any questions about any of those at this time? >> So, um, one so two in the board docs there were two attachments. Should there only have been one? >> Yeah, I saw that. Now, >> I wasn't sure if there was something else. I looked. It looked exactly the same when I reviewed them. >> Okay. Um the other question just clarification on the section related to the PTO management that would be in line with what was changed for the current year. >> That is correct. We had those conversations in spring of this year and that now is translating into the handbook updated board action. >> Thank you. >> Great. Uh to confirm MEA was given
017a copy of this >> Rich. >> Yes, they were John. I met with uh Sarah Breto, the MEA president and we had conversations regarding that uh last week. Um and then uh I shared after the HR committee uh meeting and also we shared our update based off our conversation there with some additional changes that the committee was aware of at the end of the week. So yes, they're aware of all of the everything issues that they have if they need the changes to report. Sarah has now reached out to me at all regarding our conversation or a follow. >> Thank you. >> And just to be clear, it's in board docs now to Right. Anybody can read, >> right? As they should. Okay. >> And maybe this is a a different different place, different conversation.
018But can somebody speak to the why on 106? It looks like we've changed the the equity inclusion and rewarded it. And I'm not being critical. I just want to understand. So that is what um the district's uh we work with an attorney at USI and they help us with our handbook every every summertime and so they suggested those changes. In addition, we shared that with Shaina Lewis and Shaina proposed those changes as well. So both legal councils vetted through the uh handbook language um based on the uh some of the information that been shared from administr the president's office this year and so that's a response to that. >> I just want to restate that as I hear it that is a response to what's coming from the White House and that we are getting
019legal advice on how to do this the best way. >> That is correct. >> It's not a is not a That's really something that we are against. Is that a fair statement? >> It's I I can I know I'm trying to be delicate. Um it's not in any way a move away from our goal of providing a high quality education for all students. It's in our mission. It's in our vision and it's something that's extremely important for us. Um and um having a school district diverse school district is something that we value both from our student standpoint and from our staff standpoint. And uh having an equitable school district is something that we value. Thank you. I this is me speaking personally. Words inclusive and equitable mean a lot to me and I appreciate you
020guys finding a way to work through this. So thank you for that. me as a human being, I would say those persons mean a lot to me and I I valued them before. I'm sorry that we had to find a way to get around that. It's my opinion. >> So, um, on that note, I did read through 106, the proposed changes to it. So, the core of what 106 was and the core of 106 is now is still the same. Yes. That we we invite >> multicultural um, and different um, backgrounds to our school district to provide that opportunity to our students. >> Agreed. So, um, because I I read through all the different changes that were in there, um, and I think it's fair for the handbook based on what's there still has the
021same meaning behind it. >> I have one other question on a different one. >> One second. Anything else on that topic? >> Thank you. Um the section the civil air patrol and the volunteer firefighter are those changes again from an attorney. I was just curious cuz I actually had never seen civil air patrol in a leave. So was that something that curious what drove the changes there? >> That you are correct. That is from USI. They suggested updating our handbook to reflect those changes. >> Okay. Thank you. Any other questions on the book? >> All right. >> Okay. The last topic is discussion on superintendent evaluation process. The committee had a discussion regarding our current superintendent evaluation process, the possibility of making a change away from our current process. Chris has reached out to the
022Badger Conference districts to see what they are using for their evaluations. The committee will be looking at these forms, comparing them to the form that we are currently using, and report back to the board about a process to use in the future. We hope to have this done in time for the evaluation later this year. If any board members have any comments, concerns, or question about this, please contact me. So, uh, stay tuned for more information on this topic uh later. >> Any questions about that? >> Okay, that's all I have. >> Thank you very much. Thanks, Chris. >> Uh, governance committee report, Ed. >> Thank you, Annette. Um, last Tuesday, July 22nd, the governance committee met. Uh, all three committee members were president, Tracy, Rick, and myself, and John will also join us. So,
023thanks everybody for being in attendance. Uh, we had three agenda items. We'll kind of work through these. I want to say none of these are action items tonight. These are informative items. So, we might if we could talk about them, just remember there's no action, just discussion. Uh there were uh a first read or there was a first read of 42 different policies which you can see the names of in uh uh Chelsea has put those out for us in board docs. 30 of those were your basic routine that we've been through several times where we where the administration goes through and reads the policies updates them based on what's needed and a lot of times it's just words missing one or two words or a sentence or taking a neola recommendation. So I would
024ask everyone to kind of take their take a moment read through those if they have time with just basic normal maintenance and wear and tear there and care for our policies. There were five policies that are being recommended for being rescended. Those everything in those still exists. They just now live in a different part of our policies. So again it's not that they are going away or we're sunsetting that that particular policy. it's just being reallocated to a different different area. And then there were seven new policies and I would invite everyone to please take time to review those. And I'd like to shine a light on two of those new policies. Um but before I do, I want to pause and see if anybody has any comments or questions on other ones that were
025just mentioned. >> So Chelsea, thank you for highlighting the new I know you had to go back through those. That's okay. Um I I echo Ed um the thanks to the admin there was there was a lot of time spent going through each one of those 42 policies. Um a lot of good information in there. So I can reach out if there's any questions but I wanted to highlight a few. >> Yeah the two that I wanted to call out um one is new new policy being brought forward uh by administration 7547 uh around electronic communication between staff and students. There's any questions certainly feel free to throw them out there. now, but I would encourage all board members to just be aware of that policy and read it and have knowledge of it. I
026I personally think it's a good thing, but also may raise some questions so that you're prepared. Please take time to understand that one. And then secondly, there is a new one and I'm gonna ask Rich to another new one that I'm gonna ask Rich to speak to a little bit because there's a small change especially in the numbering and that's a resolution around workplace concerns and we do have a process for that but it's really geared more to um termination and wrongfulness in the workplace. This policy would allow staff the ability to have a process when they want to work through a problem. So, they're upset about something and there's a there's a communication hierarchy that they would go through basic in a summary, they would go to their supervisor, they would go to Rich.
027When all those things fail, they would come to us. And it's just kind it's something we've had in place and it's more or less putting it in writing. So, Rich, anything you want to add to that? As Ed shared, it's it's on the list that's in your docs. It's policies 3320 and 4320. And for folks who aren't as familiar with our policies, the 3000s are for policies that uh relate to our professional staff, uh which are our teachers and administrators and their assistants. And the 4,000s are policies that that relate to our support staff, which are everyone who doesn't fall into that first group. Um what Ed referred to is that we are going to be changing those policy numbers. This is not a NEOLA policy. It's something that we crafted with some input from
028Nola and from uh our legal council. Uh but rather than having two separate policies that say the same thing for both groups of staff, uh when we bring that back for second read, it'll just be one policy. Uh and it'll be in the 8,000s. Uh but the lang the only language change will be where it refers to professional staff in one and it refers to support staff in the other. It will refer to all staff under that same policy. And and as Ed shared it's providing some clarity for staff. If they have a concern it highlights the importance of bringing that concern informally to the person that you have person or people that you have a concern with. Our goal is always to have our staff um work through any concerns that they have in
029an informal manner, but if it isn't resolved in an informal matter, it lays out um some specific steps on how to bring it through um the change to the change man. >> Before I move on to item two, is there any questions on the policies that have been brought forth to any of you? And just >> quick one here. Where is the language easiest to find for anything that's new? >> Um, it is >> if I go to policies and board docs, would they be active or draft? >> If you go back to the to the agenda >> Yeah. >> and pull up the Let's see the policy here looks like this. >> Yeah. My cursor. Whoops. >> You can move past me. I can figure that out later. I'm sorry. >> But it does.
030She had color coded it by yellow is new and gray as >> I don't think that's a hyperlink to the actual policy draft the draft folder you'll find but I didn't find them in the draft section so maybe I'm not looking in the right place >> there's an email that Chelsea sent out that has the links for all >> then I would probably need to do that Mike >> we can send it tomorrow >> I had to ask for it to be sent to me again losing it >> that shows anyway >> and if If as you're reading through them, there are questions, you want them directed to you all. >> Yes, please. >> Okay. >> All right. I will move us on to item two. This is about um this is about how we
031want to handle as a board. And I want to lay this out for food for thought. Items two and items three, we used almost all the time for policy and we had about 10 minutes of conversation on these two items. So, I don't want to dive too deep, but I want to introduce this concept for everyone. Um, as you may or may not be aware, when we go to the WAS con conference every year in January, we have a delegate. It was currently it's myself and they attend a delegation where they discuss resolutions. These resolutions are basically our form of advocacy so that we can tell laws we are for this or against them. And my ask of the board is what is our position on that process? We can do nothing and just be
032aware of what's happening, what's being voted on in that meeting and I can report back. We can review all of those decisions and have a position say we agree with this and Milton School District will be in favor. We can argue for it or against it or um or we can go even further. If we kind of really get into it, we can actually suggest um resolutions. So what I put forward for you to review in board docs is just a simple screenshot of the timeline of how it happens every year and then a sample some of the resolutions from last year so you can see and digest um what you want to how you feel about it and what I would ask is at a later date if we could have some conversation about
033how we feel as a board about it because it does it will require some time to work on. It's not something that unfortunately we can do quickly. The timing is unfortunately in my opinion bad. It comes out like late November so Christmas time and you've only got a few weeks to get together during Christmas and figure out what you're in favor of what you got in favor of. But I also think it's important that we have we take our stand. So we're not standing on the sidelines saying we would have never voted on that if if we would have known we could have taken action. We are against that or for it. So, I would just ask that people take some time and ponder that and we'll bring that up for a deeper discussion at
034a later date. Any questions on that? >> I don't have a question, but I just want to be really really clear to the public and people in the room. The uh resolutions that are in there are an example from last year. They are not this year's resolutions. I don't want there to be any confusion. We don't know what this year's resolutions will be. We haven't seen them. This is if you look February 5th of 2025. So this is last year's document kind of like uh Rich's preliminary. This is not >> we don't know what this year will look like. >> And just to back you up, I've provided those for the rest board as examples only. >> Um and those are available. You have to sign into law. Okay. Item three, review of strategic plan.
035There was some discussion on as you all know our strategic planning is our anchor as the foundry that everything decision that we make should run back to strategic plan and you'll actually see that come up later tonight in the data data meeting. Um there was discussion about review of and of the strategic plan and if any effort needs to be made to adjust it. There was some brief discussion about possibly some goals that might need some adjusting because they have been achieved. uh we left the meeting with a decision that administration would take first read and come back and make suggestions about how we should proceed from there on out and that's really as far as we got. Rich, anything you want to add to that? >> Yeah. Um, if the board has a desire
036to take on a a fullscale strategic planning process and and revisit our vision and mission and our strategic objectives or our five pillars as we refer to them, that is definitely something that that we could do. Uh, it would be a we would need to do some planning on when we would take that on. Uh, but at the very least um the some of the goals are as Ed shared items that have been achieved. this these goals were adopted in 2022 and some of them have had deadlines that have passed and they've been achieved. Uh so I I at the very least I would recommend um looking at updating our goals and focus areas under each of the five pillars and I believe which my impression as we left is that administration would come back
037with the first suggestion those adjusted goals. Yes. review. [Music] >> I would just say let's not blow it up. It's a very very good strategic plan and uh it needs a little tweaking. I have referenced it often uh when I've spoken to other folks in other parts of the education world, other districts, other boards. Um, and I felt like ours was really good and I suggested that if they did not have one like that that that's that's the pace that they needed to start from. So, it's it's been a very good uh process for us. So, let's we certainly don't need to blow it up. Let's uh tweak it a little bit. >> I do have just a governance question then. So I previously chaired the strategic plan committee and so now that it's I
038guess I'm assuming all of a sudden it's going to fall under the governance committee which I'm I'm not a part of. So is that what was decided? So there is no strategic plan >> committee. So is that governance wise did that fall back under this new >> That's a very good question. Thank you're calling that out. I am not sure about that. We did the reorg of the committees. That was one of the one of the reorganizations was moving strategic planning under governance. The governance uh umbrella for the governance committee includes what previously had been policy committee, legislative committee, and strategic planning now fall all fall under that governance umbrella. >> I'd like to echo what Joe said. I think the pillars um and the way it was established was really good. I and maybe
039going into the next one we the dates are what gave it away as though they're past. So August 23, August 24 and again at that point like those were fabulous goals but maybe they're more longer term. Um so something just to think about when you put a hard date in there then you have to remember to go back and look at that date again. Um but the pillars themselves even the focus areas I read through and they're still really solid. So, um, it's it's that those dates that kind of just jump out at you, >> but correct me if I'm wrong, but obviously it may have been adopted in 2022, but in this group or portions of this group have have reviewed it. So, I mean, I don't want the general public to think that
040it's a 2022 and we've just put it on a shelf, not done anything. >> I think that's a really good point. We utilize it all the time. When we have our admin meetings, we lead with uh people reading off the mission and the vision statements. We when we put together agenda items, we talk about which of our five pillars that agenda falls into. So, it's very much a living document. And I think also to address Jen's comment, when we have achieved goals that are there, that that definitely shows that it's been it's been embedded in the practice of the district because if we had put it on a shelf and we weren't paying attention, we would never have achieved the goals. So that speaks to the strength of it and to the to the work
041that's been done by the district. And I just want to thank the administration for the work they're going to do. That's going to I appreciate it and I think they're the right group of people to start this conversation because they the strategic plan. So if anybody knows where the tweaking is needed, it's probably them. So I appreciate you guys starting the conversation and we look forward to what you come up with. >> Anything else? >> So new business and Joe hinted at this at our last board meeting. Uh John and I attended the laws leadership summit and uh were able to do some learning and and spend some time with our consultants. Uh Joe was a presenter at the summit and sat on a panel and thought it would be nice if we could share
042a little bit of lessons learned or things that we learned when we were there. Do you want to miss that? >> Sure. >> Okay. >> I think it's good anytime you can get away to one of these events. Of course, it's hard, especially in the summer. Um, but every time I go to the one in Milwaukee, one of the advantages are the people you meet, the other board mates, other districts. So, I think that was the highlight for me again was, you know, having lunch with these people, meeting people that I've never met, breakfast, uh, breakout sessions. Uh, one of Joe's sessions, uh, the second one, I couldn't do the first one, but, uh, he kind of gathered everybody. We got the tables and tried to, you know, brainstorm amongst the I don't know about
043eight or 10 per table maybe. So, um, a lot of different takeaways. Every, it seems like every district out there has not issues, but they have questions about their agenda or their policies. They didn't know how to answer it. So, everybody's kind of bouncing ideas off each other. A lot of connections were made, you know, email addresses and that type of stuff. Uh when it came to the breakout sessions, the difference between this one and Milwaukee one was we had two choices. Milwaukee we had what 15 or so. So this was a much smaller uh setting. If I can read my handwriting here. Uh some of the highlights that I took away. Um first one I did was district communication. And Carrie does a good job with this, but I did take some good notes.
044Um it was centered around creative ways to meet our uh stakeholders where they are just finding different ways to do that. Um we're creating ways to be more transparent and genuine. Uh next session was uh section on social media and social media management. uh seemed like a big buzzword over the two days was cell phone policy and I think we kind of touched on that at some point here lately but um I think and maybe somebody can correct me but I think there's four states that have gone to a statewide policy there's maybe 20 other ones um that have like optional uh suggestions for uh cell phone policies within the school districts um there just a lot of ideas around you know how to uh mitigate the cell phone use um things for the kids
045to do. Uh strategic plan was a part of one of the sessions uh and I think agree as we just discussed we have a pretty solid strategic plan. I was part of it you know a few years ago and I know the admins look at it. Uh one of the points that they made if you are creating one you know don't make it a schoolboard strategic plan but make it a community strategic plan. So, if anything we ever do to add or change, we might want to consider some community feedback to our strategic plan to make it more uh ownership of the community. Um, and that was the highlights that I had >> and I I would say one of the things that I liked about this summit was that it had two strands, right?
046There was one that was more of a general strand and one that was for school board presidents. And so, it was it allowed for that uh relationship building and getting um connecting with people. There was also a lot of talk uh it's it's the opening session was all on the budget. I think it passed the day or two days before the event and so that kind of permeated the whole event and that was the first couple hours. I also attended all of the schoolboard president uh strand and so board relations, community relations with the board communication. I attended the panel, you know, now you're board president, what do you do? And um so it was really helpful as a new president to have some of that opportunity to ask your questions and learn with people
047who were very experienced board presidents and like me new in the role. Um we have a board development session coming up and um John and I were able to take some time to meet with a consultant that we will be working with and that was also I think time well spent and so I would just say that um when those opportunities come up to do learning with like roles and responsibilities I appreciate that we are able to do that and have that available in our state. Any questions? Oh, I was and Joel, did you have a what? Trace, I'll come back to you. Joel, did you have anything else? >> No, no, you have captured it really well. Um, on a personal level, I have opened a can of worms that I didn't anticipate because
048I have been asked a number of times since then if I could continue facilitating and presenting and whatnot. Uh, I think I'm going to do something again in Milwaukee in January, the way it sounds. And um I didn't anticipate quite so much demand, but uh we'll we'll do what do what we can, but uh no, it's just it it is the collaboration piece was what I really started with a couple of years ago from the board president angle and launched it a little bit in Milwaukee. This was a bit of a follow-up to that and most of the feedback I got zeroed in on that. folks really appreciate it to sit down and you don't have to be a board president. You can sit down as a board member and just dialogue with someone from
049a different community, a different district. How do you do this? How do you do that? What's your challenge? What's your successes? And uh I think you know we saw loss of that and everybody said, "Oh, we need to do more of this." Um and and and full disclosure, it's really hard for this group to do that with the open meetings constraints that we've got. And that's not good or bad. that just is what it is. However, two folks from a district can meet with two folks from a different district and not necessarily circumvent that, but be able to have a dialogue without, you know, thinking ahead of time, what's the agenda, how do we notice it, etc. So, lots of folks think that there's some value in that. So, hopefully we can continue to all
050of us can share, right? It was like some of my messaging was like I don't have all the answers but a room full of board presidents does and that's the the impetus for just get together and talk. So >> um John you mentioned that you went the first session you went to was on meeting the community where they are >> correct. >> What did they say? Did you have any notes on that? Just out of curiosity. >> Yeah. So, some of the ideas were um and I took the idea that I kind of made it ours like have lunch at the gathering place and I Rich probably does that you know especially when we're having meetings whatever but you know why couldn't a couple board members go have lunch with seniors at the gathering place
051you know just share ideas um the uh different Facebook messaging where you know things run through Rich uh or the board president. Uh just a way to get facts out there, things that are upcoming. Uh and maybe, you know, collectively as board, we all have a school that we're assigned to, we could get reports from the school and kind of share some highlights or, you know, uh um some of the the good things that the schools are doing. So, this it's really about information um transparency, just let everybody know about it. Uh the other one that I liked and I'm glad you asked this was um the homecoming parade said the board members walk in the homecoming parade. >> Yeah, there was one school district that had a float in their homecoming parade every year
052and it was a theme. It was >> I mean I'll try the float. You guys can walk. >> We come up with the theme. >> Thank you. Thanks. >> Just like that, Tracy. But um >> pretty good. So >> I have a wagon, but my float digitic skills are minimal. Any other questions? All right, we are move we are on to staffing report 6A. >> I'll move to approve the staffing report as presented. >> Second that. >> A motion from Tracy, a second for Rick. Any questions? >> All those in favor, please say I. >> I. Motion carries. Meeting dates. We have some upcoming meetings and also some back to school events that board members are invited to that we also uh post because there's a possibility forum with a board there. Um next week,
053Wednesday on August 6, we have a finance committee meeting. Again, it's finance committee on Wednesday, August 6th at 6:30 p.m. We have the Milton High School student council breakfast on Thursday, August 7th. That's Thursday next week at 7:30 a.m. at the high school. Our next regular board meeting is on Monday, August 11th. And then our other August meeting is on Monday, August 25th. Both of those are at 6:30 p.m. We have a new teacher breakfast on Monday, August 18th at 8:00 a.m. Uh that also is at Milton High School. We have the Milton High School is hosting our our uh welcome back convocation for all staff on Wednesday, August 20th. That's at 7 that starts at 7:45 a.m. And we have the board's development session on also on Wednesday, August 20th. That'll be at 6:30
054p.m. And then I also want to uh remind folks that at that second regular board meeting in August, August 25th, we'll follow up the regular board meeting with our annual meeting. Uh it'll be uh to follow the regular meeting. And tonight to follow this meeting, we have a data workshop where our principles and uh directors are going to be sharing information about uh some of our data from this past year. Can you um the student council breakfast, can you just elaborate a little bit more on what that is? Kevin, do >> you want to speak to that? >> So, uh with the reorganization of student council last year, uh they're they're much more active. One of the the ideas that the students had this last year was to talk with you guys about showing what
055student council did last year, what some of their goals are this year, and just trying to engage more. So, it's it's uh it's not going to be a lot. They're going to have breakfast to share what they're doing and chancing with some of the new leaders for the rest of this school. >> Okay. So, it's a meeting of them with the board. We're just not kind of like coming and watching them interact, but that's what I was saying. >> That's my understanding. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? One other thing that I would add if there weren't any other questions is the the student council breakfast, the new teacher breakfast, and the the back welcome back complication are all open to any board members to attend, but we also know that there
056sometimes are other commitments that make it impossible to get them. So, they're available for board members to attend without an expectation that the full board would be. And I would just uh I will be out of town on August 11th and John will be chairing the meeting. So if anybody has any questions or things they want to be sure are on the agenda. Um he and I are going to sit down next week before I leave for vacation, but then you'll be picking on that. Right. I want to entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> I move we motion from Tracy. I'll >> second it. Second to Rick. Any other questions? Those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> The host says, >> just a reminder, we want to make sure K gets to take
057picture and >> we'll also be rearranging the tables for the for the