001Board of Education leading to order. Start with the pledge of allegiance 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. Thank you, Chris. Um, just a reminder that if there are any board members that have run anything added to the agenda to just email and myself and we can let you know where that will end and how that will go. And with that, I will entertain a motion to approve tonight's agenda. I'll move to approve the agenda as presented. I'll second that. Uh motion second brick. Any questions? All those in favor, please say I. I opposing. Motion carries. Action on the minutes from our last meeting. I'll make a motion to approve the minutes for the
002regular meeting held on June 23rd, 2025 as presented. Second. So motion from Rick, a second from Ed. Any questions on the minutes? All those in favor, please say I. I. Oppos. Entertain motion on the vouchers. I'll move to approve general checking account vouchers totaling 1,500,82799.30 as present. Second motion from a second from John. Any questions on the motion? All those in favor, please say I. I. Oppos. Motion carries. And with that we will move on to comments. Um we have two people who would wish to speak tonight. I will couple of reminders. Uh you have three minutes and um John has a timer so I can see and Marcy will also be helping to make sure we stick to the three minute time limit. Um only items that are on the agenda for tonight may
003be spoken to and I see both of these have to do an open enrollment. Board members will not be responding. We do not respond, we do not address your concerns, we appreciate you coming and sharing them with us, but we will not be giving you any response or feedback on those. When you first come up, we're going to ask you to come up to the podium because that's where the microphone is. Remind you that this is recorded. It's live streamed tonight. Um, so just keep that in mind and speak facing with that computer so we get your voice early on there. Start with your name and then your three minutes. And we will start with Kelsey Zimorski. Did I say that right? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Hello. My name is Kelsey Lorski and I
004am a mom of two current Red Hawks and two future Red Hawks. My husband Matt cannot be here tonight as he is coaching a T-ball game. So I'm speaking on behalf of both of us. I'm here to express my concerns regarding the recent and ongoing changes to the school placement for open enrollment students in Milton's elementary schools both for the upcoming school year and in future years. From what I understand, all first and second grade open enroll students at Milton East are being reassigned to others elementary schools for the 2025 2026 school year. While we have been quote informed by superintendent that many factors were considered in making these decisions, it does not appear that those considerations were applied effectively. It seems that any student opening road at Milton East in first or second grade
005in the 2024 25 school year are being moved regardless of individual circumstances. Families are not only struggling to find new afterchool care programs and transportation, but also struggling with the emotional needs of their students. When we were first notified of these changes, our children were placed at Milton West. Our daughter who will be entering second grade is is now using her third elementary school placement. The stability and relationship she has built will be disrupted once again. We've also learned that Milton West is eliminating a third grade classroom and as a result, third grade students then will be moved to Milton East or possibly to other schools. This raises serious concerns about the district's long-term planning. A second grade classroom at West are being expanded. Well, if third grade question is being eliminated, what changes can
006we expect for the following year? We also learned while talking to many other concerned parents that a second grade student from Milton West whose family has been there for many years is now being moved to Milton East for the upcoming school year. So, while all open world students going into second grade who have been happily at Milton East are being moved to other schools, a student from Milton West is being sent to second grade at East. that leads me to believe that many students are being shuffled around without much consideration besides where they can fit for the upcoming school year. Third grade students take the Wisconsin forward exam and those results contribute to the performance evaluations of our schools. When students are removed from a familiar trusted learning environment and placed into a new setting,
007how can we reasonably expect them to perform well on these state assessments or in any other academic area? Furthermore, the data from these test scores would be difficult to analyze as the students taking their exam at East only there for their third grade year. How will the district be able to make informed decisions when they don't know what's working or not working at each elementary school? We are deep we are deeply concerned about the frequency of school transitions occurring with our district's elementary schools. Our children are being operated from their comfort zones, separated from friends, and distanced from teachers who help create a secure and supportive learning environment. We worry that this pattern will continue each year and we firmly believe that such instability is not in the best interest of our young learners. We
008chose to enroll our children in the Milton School District because we believe it offers the highest quality education. Our children have thrived at Milton East in a as a weekly volunteer at the school. I've had the opportunity to observe firsthand how effectively it operates. Ky, I'm going to ask you to stop at You made it just a little over three minutes. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Next we have Sarah Peterson. Okay. Um my name is Sarah Peterson. Um and I'm the mom of two going on three kiddos going to school this next coming year at Milton. Um we were previously at East and we have been there since my daughter was in 4K. Initially when we moved into Milton, we wanted the school to move to the school and then our family got
009too big. We moved out of the district um just slightly. So I guess I wanted to express some concern similar to Kelsey about um how we were feeling about the move from film now to we're going to Harmony, but in addition, we were given a choice to less. Um, my daughter Molly struggles with anxiety and has made immense improvements over the years. Um, Mil has been incredible with helping her and allowing her to grow and really challenging her um to where she's not crying when we drop off at school anymore and she actually walked up the building. um when we were notified of the change it, you know, as a mom made me really concerned for her. And while I can appreciate kids have resiliency and kids accept change, um we continue to see, you
010know, Molly's anxiety growing as this school year goes on. Um, I want to preface that like we are doing all the things we can do to help her transition gracefully and successfully into her new school at Harmony. But I do bring up the same concern that Kelsey brings up with what does this mean for the following year? Is this something that just because we're open enrolled my kid are going to have to experience again another elementary school shift after second grade and third grade until we get to your side. Um, so I just like urge you guys to, you know, pro provide more information. Take into account that there are little lives and they're a little bit, you know, their world is school and their social, emotional, um, wellbeing is incredibly important. Um, and I'm
011really concerned for being Thank you so much. Appreciate it. We'll move on to item number 2A, Red Hawk highlights. There's a few different things that I want to highlight. Um, since our last meeting, summer school, our enrichment for summer school sessions ended. They wrapped up on July 3rd. We had a very successful uh summer school. uh we have uh also since our last meeting I think we gave an update that the high school FBLA was traveling to Anaheim for the national leader leadership conference that took place and all four of our students had outstanding presentations and special congratulations to Emma Stanky who was a graduate in the in 2025 who placed in the top 15 people in the nation at that competition. So congratulations to Emma. uh with the recent uh Jefferson County Fair and
012the upper county upcoming Rock County Fair, we have a lot of students taking part. We want to congratulate all our Red Hawks who participated and will participate in their respective events and we have a number of staff members uh who are working with our FFA programs on preparation and presentation at the fair. And then just yesterday, uh, Milton High School alone, Gavin Colleen, uh, was drafted in the first round by the San Francisco Giants. So, not very often that a a graduate from our high school is drafted in a professional sport. So, congratulations to them. Um, in in the end of June, we had 12 members of our admin team learn together in a conference with other uh, Wisconsin teams. Uh the conference was titled cultivating a culture of excellence for all and some of
013the key takeaways from that conference included the importance of having effective universal instruction in every classroom. uh the need for meaningful professional development throughout the year uh including both our prof professional development days but also our work thereunities and making sure we have common expectations and timely feedback for educators from their supervisors. So those are all things that we'll be working on putting some things in place that we learned in the conference and continuing that conversation. And then earlier today, we had our monthly admin team meeting and the highlight was that our admin team was joined by representatives from the city of Milton uh police department and the city for a tabletop exercise on school safety and the unification. So, it was a great opportunity for our team to kind of talk through a few
014different scenarios, how we would handle situations where students needed to be evacuated from the school for a wide variety of different potential reasons. And then we unified with with their parents. Uh, in situations like this, the safety of our students and staff is always a top priority. And we utilize a protocol that's also used by most of the other school districts in Rock County, which really helps when law enforcement is involved because then you can get help from both uh county uh law enforcement, the the sheriff's department, but also as different local police departments help out in other communities, if there is a situation, they're familiar with uh the scenario. So, we're really grateful for our partners in in the city and and across all of the municipalities for the collab collaborative uh work that
015we had today. And I just want to thank everyone that participated. I want to thank Lavore and Sher Youngberg and Carrie Clever who did the presenting uh and then also Carrie for planning of the event. Yeah, just a quick one. I want to thank you and the admin team and the little film and minutes that you're throwing out there on social media. It has helped me to remind my driving student that you cannot park in Schillerberg. So, I saw that one. Um, and the physical reminders for athletic registration. So, those quick little thank you for helping me remember over the summer minutes are are very appreciated, at least to me, and I'm sure to others in in the public as well. So anything else? Great. 3A annual health services report. All right. Okay. I'm Melissa.
016This is Shel. Um we're the district nurses um here in the Milton School District. Um, so we're contracted through healthcare and we are going to kind of quickly give you an overview of all of the wonderful things we accomplished this next year. So I don't Okay, perfect. Okay, so I feel weird that I can't see it. Like I'm talking but I feel weird that I can't see what I'm talking to. You're perfect where you are. Okay, perfect. Okay, good. All right. So, um, as employees support for healthcare, um, we've served as the school nurses in the district for the past three years, um, the 2425 school year, we were contracted for 80 hours per week, 40 total, um, which is 3,140 hours for the school year. The district also had two health aids, um, which
017were also 40 hours per week. Um, so we're grateful for their help that they've provided us this school year. So, the four of us work together. All right. Undercore Healthcare's um school nurse program. We just kind of want to go over what that entails. Um there's 17 nurses in 10 area school districts um that are contracted with Brian Nursing Services. Uh for healthcare school nurses the opportunity to collaborate with one another, share resources u mentor and access many hospital and community resources. It's really has been an asset especially as newer school nurses. Um for healthcare we are Dr. after they swing issuer um out of that and provides us with emergency uh orders and things like that. All right, this next slide um this is just a diagram of the school nursing practice framework. Um
018this gives the definition of what defined a school nurse. Um our role and goal has always been about the health and safety of the students and staff in our district. Um doing what we can to support them to be healthy, safe, and in the classrooms ready for them to learn. Um and then this slide just goes um over the the statutes that the state of Wisconsin has in place um that provide legal guidance regarding the type of health services schools uh must provide to meet health and saf. Um the statute listed here just states that school services are required to provide emergency nursing services. Um so this slide talks about the student presentations and education that was provided this school year. Um, so you can see on here, um, we were able to provide several
019different areas and we provided education directly into our classroom, um, where Shelley and myself did the teachings oursel, which is something we're super proud of. That's what we love, um, about this is being able to get into classrooms. So, um, that shows all of the different numbers, the amount of times that we were able to teach and the things that we taught, um, our classrooms, including living healthy lifestyles, teaching the benefits of developing healthy habits, um, and health and wellness for our students. We're always looking for opportunities to teach. So, if there's any ideas for working um, and then what do we have here? Additionally, school nursing provides staff training for safe medication administration, basic first aid, CPR first aid training for American Heart Association and stop the bleed. Um, we also train a medical
020emergency response team in each building um to respond to medical events, provide care, and administer emergency medications if necessary. Pictured on the screen are just some medications that we do provide education on um for students with emergency medications. Um slide eight here. So this shows um all of the training of staff that was provided this school year. Um so you can see um the number of staff members in our district that are trained on all of those different categories of medications. Um so that training is all provided by the two of us. Um on that lefthand table, the righth hand table um are all of other trainings that we provide. um the amount of people in the district that are trained in CPR first aid, separately, diabetes and so on. Um those are all of
021the numbers of the staff members that are actually trained by us. Um and then here we have a list of student health concerns that impact our district. With a total enrollment of 3,465 students this year, 20% um of those students have reported to have one or more chronic health conditions, many of which might require emergency medic emergency intervention and emergency medications that we talked about. Um this number is based on parent provided information as well as some doctor's orders that we received. Um so the top um diagnoses are listed here. Um again, this is just what the parent reported. So these numbers may be lower. It's just what we are aware of. Um ADHD, asthma, diabetes, type one and two, um seizures, severe allergies, mental health. Um we do believe, we mentioned this last year
022too that the mental health number should be much larger than that number. But um so this slide um this talks about health office visits. Um so you can see in the first column there on elementary north side the amounts that they had last year versus the amount this year. Um there is some discrepancies on some of those. Some of those numbers are lower in this year than they were last year. A big part of why we think that is is the amount of education that we provided to staff on things that they can do before sending kiddos down to the office for a health office visit. So we think that is paying off that we are um doing those things. We're also providing band-aids at the front desk so kids can just walk in, grab
023a band-aid, and walk out. Um they don't necessarily have to be seen by an office staff person or our health aid um if they just need a band-aid. So um we're happy that those numbers are improving a little bit because that's good. That means that more kids are healthy and staying in classrooms. Um here we have a breakdown of medication doses given in the district. Um note that students in middle and high school are allowed to self-care OTC medications with parents approval. So those doses would not be recorded. Um we compared again both last school year and the 2425 school year. Um there is a jump where there's a significant difference between the scheduled medications. Those are medications that we give on a daily basis um on a schedule. Um then we break it down
024into as needed medications like Tylenol, ibuprofen, um inhalers, insulin and emergency medications which thankfully both. Um this slide talks about the amount of um health plans we wrote, the number of IEP meetings we attended, 504s. Um it says the number of action and emergency plan um plans that we wrote for students, the number of students that have Medicaid billing services, and then the number of staff hepatitis B vaccines given. Um we don't routinely give them because of our partnership with Edertton. Most of the time they can get them through there. Um but that's just a comparison chart of the amount of um plans and meetings that we attended this school year. Um this one goes over the um immunization information for the students in school district. Um our compliance rate this year was 98.57%. Um
025and with that students who meet in requirements fell to 92.3% and it lists um any students with waiverss, religious or personal or health waiverss. U the next slide um goes through the amount of uh the number of students that were vision and hearing screened this year. Um this is something that is completed um by Shelley and I. Um the vision and hearing uh vision screenings um are helped by the Edertton Lions Club and Milton's Lion Club. Um but mostly done by us. Hearing screenings are completely done by our staff ourselves. Um this goes through the amount of students that were referred, the number of students that came back with new prescription um for glasses and same for hearing. You can see in the two boxes. Um in addition, we coordinate with Wisconsin Seedless Smile through
026HealthNet to provide um dental services and screenings including exams, sealants, fluoride treatments, and referrals. Um the students have participated in addition for 391 um 435 for sealed and 64 referrals for care. There is a little note at the bottom there that I just wanted to point out that seal smile provided $164,227 in free dental services this year to our Milton school district kids. So that's huge. Those kids would not have gotten dental care without our partnership with CLI. Um this slide shows our communicable diseases. Um so we are required to keep track of the amount of comm communicable diseases in our district. Um and you can see those numbers reflected there. All right. We like to go over our goals for the uh for this school year and and we did we were able to
027accomplish all three goals that we listed and this week before. Um as you saw in the previous slide, we did um have a big jump in our involvement with the 504 and IEP meetings um coordinating with case managers and student services to um say that those tables more often. Um and also we um did um develop a list of mindful interactions to assist students with anxiety at the mental health health room. We put a calling quarter in the um health office in the high school and various other things, digits, things like that. um education on how we can assist students um with anxiety that present to the health office. Um and continue to work on streamlining the field trip preparation procedure. Um we've got a document districtwide um so every school has the same procedure,
028the same form to fill out for um field trips. uh making sure that those come to our fac so we can make sure all healthcare um health related things are addressed for field trips that um this next slide is a huge project that we completed this year. Um so project atom is a project that we use to um make all of our schools hearts safe schools. Um every school in our district this year did obtain this heart safe certification. Um, what that involves is Shelley and I doing a lot of planning, um, running emergency response drills, having people train in CPR, first aid, um, and feedback and a various of other things. Making sure our AEDs are up to date and all of our stuff. We have Narcan, all of these things. Um, all of
029our schools have banners in them that show that we're super proud of this certification. And these pictures that you can see are pictures of our emergency response teams in all of our different buildings. And for um next year's goals for the 2526 school year, um first goal, we'd like to implement strategies for preventing and controlling the spread of infectious diseases um within the school community by working with the Rock County Health Department to create a new disease tracking procedure. We're working closely with that. That's going to be a new thing. Um, Rock County and is going to be involved in a direct plan on coordinating that um to help track and keep um rooms cleaner if there's an active uh community that's going around, things like that. Um, second, we're going to address students emotional
030and mental health needs, providing support referrals when necessary to appropriate support staff within the district. And then we um would like to get a little bit more creative this next school year and create a quarterly health newsletter to go out to keep district informed of trends and information and educational topics. What questions? I just want to say thanks. Thanks for sharing and thanks for all you do to keep our students and our staff healthy and safe. Every year I see this and I'm amazed that what you do the numbers uh really get out of me. So uh thanks a lot. Keep great work. Thank you. That's a quick question. Thank you both and your teams for what you do for the district. One question I have is on slide 10. Um the visits in the
031middle school it's like a 500 decrease. I get the band-aids in elementary I guess the north side but 500 seems an awful lot in the middle school. Is that just is there anything that triggers that? Just out of curiosity. Um I don't know. I'm not really sure about that that fall. We did have a student that had a lot of office students and one of the a lot of office visits last year is not in the high school. Um so that could be a part of it. It could be that not all, you know, the data is only as good as what's out there. So maybe the offices weren't documented um or um what may have just been a minor thing was documented the previous year and not this year um because we did do
032that education about like let kids just come down and it's kind of a selfcare station get what they need and then classes that must be very helpful for you guys as well to Oh sure that are in those buildings for us um to be in the district. So, and great job getting all the school certified. It's amazing that we're super proud. Yeah, it's a lot of work that it took us to do that. We're super proud of it. I got a question on page 10 as well. Uh, could you explain what MER calls are and does that always end in an ambulance or vice versa? Does an ambulance call always involve the mer team? Okay. So, um, a medical emergency response team, that's a MER call. And so, um, it does not always require an
033ambulance visit. If an ambulance is called, it does always require a merch call. Um, so that's something that's super important to us is we do a lot of training with our MER teams on how to respond to these medical emergencies within their buildings. So, um, no, sometimes it can be something like you think of an example of when we wouldn't call 911. Um, I mean, maybe Yeah, we had a we had a blood drive at the high school and we had a blood drive at the high school and you know how that can be. The students may class call is called you call the main office. We have all the buildings trained on how to do that out of the classroom and we go to the room, assure the student is safe, and we get
034them up and go. Yeah. Another example is like a kid's out on the playground and falls and there's a questionable arm, let's say, that's injured. Um, they would call the hurt team. They would call one of us if we're in the building. and we would come and assess um the situation and then if we you know don't think that it's broken or maybe just needs an X-ray but could go home with mom or dad then we would make that call versus calling. Thank you. I have a question on slide six and just to clarity I think I know what it is. What's tar wars? Oh, so Tar Wars is a presentation that I do um to all of the sixth graders um that talks about um smoking, tobacco, vaping. Um we are burning a set
035of pig lungs and I show them um the healthy pig lungs versus the smoking pig lungs. They see how they inflate differently. Um and they can see the discoloration. They can see all the different things. Um I also have a big tray of um different things that are half of it tobacco products and half of it is candy. And they have to distinguish the difference between the two of them because of how we market um tobacco products and how kids see them and see like oh this bag of Skittles looks very similar to this thing or how they project bakes um that are sour patch kit flavored intentionally after sour patch kits. So that's a program that we do to all of our sixth grade kids. I kind of figured it was something like that.
036Thank you very much. Did you I had one more quick one on number 12. So the action and emergency plans written last year 54, this year 69. Is that cumulative or do you have to start from scratch at the beginning of each year? Start from scratch beginning of every year. They need new doctor's orders and a new health plan every single year. So that is what we do the first two weeks before school starts. Thank you. I just wanted to echo the thanks to Shelley and Melissa both for their presentation today, but the work that they do is incredibly important. They do it really well. So, thank you so much. And we also want to thank all the people that help us in every building um app, I think. Yep. Lance, you're next with the
037M Hey everybody, how are you guys? Um I'm going to go through our yearly stuff here that what we done from last July to this July. Um right now we're currently in our spring summer stuff. So we're getting ready to finish up with our baseball softball programs. Uh three third grade through 8ighth grade as well as our 4K through second grade stuff. Um, third grade and eighth grade just ended up last weekend tournament for Qu County and the fourth grade, I'm sorry, 4K through second grade will be done this week on Fridays. So, we're going to finish up on Friday with that. Um, we still participate in third and eighth grade by county league. We've done that for many years now. We still do that. Uh, it's a good fit for us and it keeps
038us competitively and gets us numbers and other teams we can compete, not just teams. And then the four 4K through second grade is all animal stuff. Um, moving on down here, our swim lessons. We're in the middle of our swim lessons as well. We are in our third session in the second week of the July 7th to the 17th. We've got our first two sessions done. We have one more to go starts next Monday and we'll be done July 31st with that. Um, we won't do a fifth one. We got a lot of kids that are start going on vacations here and start active colleges and stuff like that. So, our staff will finish there. we won't have enough to really be successful and keep it safe as much as we want to. So, we
039won't have a fifth one. Um, our numbers have been great all all summer with that. They've been full every session. Um, if not always roll with waiting list times. Um, last year we switched with the sessions. We went to four sessions in the morning and four sessions in the afternoon. Um, and it's been a huge success for us. We've been able to get get more people in the pool and more more uh opportunities for kids to have more so lessons. We've got a lot of kids I've noticed this year that do doubles. They'll do one in the morning and one in the afternoon. So, it's been good that way. So, moving on. Uh we do have our Marlin stuff as well too that'll be finished up here at the end of the year. We've had
040um we have four meets. Got one more meet to go with that and then that season will be done. We do our open swim times for the public. That will go through August. Uh we do Tuesdays, Thursdays, 1:15 and 2:45. Um that varies with with enrollment type people. It just it can be from small three four people up to 20 just depends on if it's hot rainy that type of stuff. So if it's a nice day or around like the holiday part we're pretty pretty slow as people were busy doing stuff. But um when we were hot there for a few days we were pretty full of that. So in the fall uh we will be doing our flight football again. We started our registration that on July 7th. um that'll be signing up. We
041will participate in qu county with that. It's the same grade levels will be the breakdown. The K K first grade will be inhouse league. The second, third grade, fourth, fifth grade will be quad counties. We do a sixth grade league. Um we haven't done a sixth grade. The we offer it, but we haven't done it. We don't have enough support for that. Lot thought lot start football at that age level. Um but we offer it just case. You never know. That would be an in-house cuz in the quad county um sixth grade is kind of where the cut off is for tackle. Not a lot of teams go or they do a hybrid they call it where you got to buy the helmet shoulder pads and then you do the flags. That's a pretty pretty
042p pretty pensy or pretty expensive to get into and I don't really want to tackle that. So um with that one but uh that will do that and then in the fall um fall winter we'll do our MRE dance. um that is crazy crazy successful. People love it. Our numbers keep jumping. Um I can't thank Chelsea or Mandy or the dance instructors enough. They are wonderful people and they the people love them. So we are up to 165 students in that and we have to figure out how to probably make the dance bigger cuz it's just it's a packed house and it's a it's a hyper tickets. So So we'll probably end up going to two different sessions, a morning and an afternoon for that to get everybody there. This last year we had a
043limited taking sales for people. So, um can't talk enough about that right dance and how well it's gone for us when we when we took a a lead a few years ago. So, um we also did camp with coach Kingman with at the high school that was also very successful for us. Um, that was just kind of one talking with Katie and just seeing kind of what we want to do and it was great success and it's it's got girls into playing volleyball more often and I and I'll talk about later about trying to do some more for that but uh that'll be another successful thing I I believe with Katie in the in the fall doing that again for that. So moving on there for the year activities we still do our lap swim
044um for the mornings and and evenings we also and I had put a typo here that Mr. smoke cough for me and I didn't catch it was that we already do the morning swim on Saturday mornings. Um then we we do that from 7:30 to 8:30 and Saturday mornings we do it we do it now year round. So, and then on and uh in October we'll start up again, I'm sorry, September, we'll start up our waters and where they take the summers off for Saturday morning stuff. But right now it is we are 4 days a week, 2 hours 5 to 7 mornings as well as Saturday mornings at 7:30, 8:30. Um our water Zumba, water aerobics, they meet two two times a week, three times a week with Zumba on Saturdays and then pool
045party still on weekends. Um that's a little slow right now because obviously summer but yeah that'll pick up once school gets back and where it's here for us. Then we still do our partnership with with the um martial arts studio here in town and we will do that fall se fall and spring sessions in October and February. Um and then moving on through our new activities we want to do um is the volleyball. There's a merit league called and it's or I'm sorry metal league called and it's a community based wreck level type volleyball games that that we can get into. Uh we tried last year it just didn't work out with timing when when we started figuring out what we wanted to do. Um but that's something we really want to hit with and
046it be for fifth through 8th grade it would we have our own team but we played surrounding communities kind of like county but it's not it'd be more Cambridge and Jefferson and that kind of stuff. So, um, and then the tumbling gymnastics class, we want I really want to try to figure that one out. Last few years, our instructors in the past has not been able to do it since we're too busy, but that's always getting emails and phone calls about that. So, I want to figure out how to get that going again. And then a parent taught swim lessons. Um, we had a lot of questions about that and try to figure that out when got to go and during the during the winter months. So, thank you. Questions? I'll just throw the thank
047you lance. There's a lot on here. I think the one of the things that catches my eyes is the numbers participants and that the community is getting a lot of bang for their buck kind of this program. I when I look at like if you've ever been by Shber on a Monday or Tuesday I think is where they play T-ball or whatever it is. It's crazy. I mean there's 200 and some kids playing that's with a mom or a dad there that makes odd people. So organizing that is no small feat. And the other thing that caught my eye was the the swim lesson participant of over 400. And I know a big part of that is part you guys take time out of just the lessons and teach safety and for a week and
048how to, you know, take care of yourself in the water. And that's 400 of our community kids this summer. They got trained how to be safe on the water. And that's that's huge. So kudos to you and few of your lifeguards that I've met are amazing. And I know that's a phone at the top. So, thank you for organizing that and making that happen. It's good stuff. I I have friends who have kids in the dance program and they rave. They love that program. Thanks a lot. Thank you guys. Any other Wait, any other questions? Was something I was going to ask when did the dance program start? Was that two or three years ago? It was like Yeah, two years. It was like uh two years ago. And we we're like first year we're
049like right around 100 and now it's just crazy. And we even got um I was talking to Chelsea about it. We had a age range. We had an adult class. They tried it. They got some people. So it's like keep doing it. Our MRE program employs a lot of folks including some of our students that that work for the MRAT program and Lance does a great job coordinating that. So, thank Lance, but also thank all of our folks that work with all of those different programs. Thank you. We're going to move on to the 2025 26 student and family handbooks that we study. First one is the 4K6 handbook. Yeah, we have uh all three of the handbooks are are docs. We weren't going to have the principal go through the whole thing. Obviously, there's
050there's they're lengthy documents. Uh but principles are here to answer any questions that board members might have. Um there were a few changes and I can highlight the main areas of change. Excuse me. Pull that up quick. the at the elementaryaries the only significant change was some language uh around homework. Uh in the past there had been a uh statement about an homework expectations of 10 minutes for each year students are in school. For instance, second grade would expect 20 minutes of homework. Sixth grade 60 minutes of homework. And we found that that wasn't what was typically happening. So they they changed that to more of a description of what homework is for. that it's practice. It's not punitive. It's an opportunity for chance to practice um what they're learning in class and get some
051reinforcement at home and bring those skills back to school. Uh at the middle school, they'll any changes uh from the previous handbook. And at the high school, they tightened up some procedures for student cell phone use in classrooms and also added a section on uh AI and academic honesty. That's a topic that's that's very important right now. And then overall, there were some changes reflected in the title N references to mirror our policy on that topic. There are questions on any of the specific ones that principles can come up answer. Jeremy, if you wouldn't mind. Um I think more for the public um those that are watching the cell phone so that if we can kind of clarify what that change would have been. Well, and really the the In a lot of ways, there's
052not a changed policy. Some of those have never been allowed in the classroom. We are checking up what some of the expectations are in the classroom. So, and some of the procedures, for example, there's going to be cell phone caddies in every classroom, but sometimes teachers chose to use those. That's something we're going to utilize more now. Uh where those have actually have been installed or will be installed in the classroom before the uh school year starts. Um so it it's going to be a renewed expectation of what the focus in class is supposed to be. Uh and working with our staff as well. So for some students may feel like this is new technically they weren't the law before but so how we are enforcing that is consistency is is great as well for
053those students. So thank you. It was just to get a little clarity on but it's a 56 page document. It was Yeah. Thank you. Oh, well Jeremy, any other questions? I didn't want you to go sit down. Any other questions? I don't have a question for Jeremy uh necessarily, but on some of these where it links to the policies, Rich, do you know it takes it to board docs just to the policies page? Can we deep link it right into that specific policy? Do you know that? The other thing is some of these links takes we we we give the title we did the number of policy but we can't link so which we can link to the website or the board doc directly. Okay. And then some of the other ones letting was the
054middle school one it had like the athletics page whatever it it takes you off of this document. Is there any way to open that in a new tab versus I think it depends on how that belief is probably included but not urgent but I think it'd be something that would be helpful so you don't lose that page well you're talking about that not all board policies are linked some have a link and some don't and so it's just a doing a search we'll check on that most effective way that we can rank materialize that. Any other questions, comments? Thank you. Those are interesting to read. You read all three of them in a row. Yeah. Thank you for all the work on those. We're going to move on to new business and last state budget.
055Well, speaking of interesting, so yes, I wanted to come out tonight. I saw when last time you were here, we weren't sure what the state budget was going to be. And to be perfectly honest, I didn't anticipate we would have resolution before this board meeting, but here we are. Uh the state budget was adopted on July 3rd. It reflected a lot of what we had been hearing was a compromise between the governor's office and the legislature. And in the memo here tonight, I've listed out what we know because believe it or not, we're still learning things about budget efforts and what that means for us. But under the revenue limits and general school aids, the $325 per pupil increase is exactly what we expected. That's the current state law. Uh there will be no increase
056in the lower revenue ceiling and on the general equalization aid side. This was a bit of a surprise even for those of us who are watching this closely. There is no increase whatsoever to the general aid pool for the next two years. In all of the state budget history that I can find, I have not been able to find a state budget where there was not at least an increase in the general aid appropriations in one of those two years. So, uh, because of this, a lot of the estimates we saw on July 1st might actually hold some water by the time we get to October. They're not going to be exactly the same, but according to the DPI, approximately 2/3 of all districts across the state of Wisconsin will see a decrease in the
057general this coming fall. Our aimment right now is relatively flat based on our spending profile. If you recall, we are at the low revenue ceiling with the only increase of 325 the last two years. We only change our own limit. We are one of the lowest spending districts in the entire state. Compare that to our property growth and value as we stand today. And we are relatively neutral compared to where the state aid pool is set right now. Under county aid programs, this is one of the largest changes that was touted in the state budget and negotiations. In the fall last fall, there was requests of upwards of 60% for special education reimbursements. Prior to the last board meeting, we had an estimate of 35 to 37 and a half that was being pulled out
058there. The compromise that came through after that was 42 and 45% the next two years. I do want to put some caution on reliance on those numbers. The last many many state budgets has had a some certain appropriation for special education. What that means in simple terms is the state puts a college money aside for a particular program. in this case, special education reimbursement, and they estimate what that pot will create as a reimbursement rate based on what they say estimated cost will be for all special education cost across the state. The last couple of years, that number has been off. In fact, this past year, we were told in the state budget for 2325, we're at 33.3%. And the last June payment we got indicated that our final reimbursement rate is just under 30.6%.
059on per pupil aid. The per pupil aid is still at $742 per pupil. This has been the case since the 1920 school year. The peral aid program was enacted shortly after act 10 of 12 or so years ago and did see some increases for those years, but since 1920 has been static and not changed. Under high cost special education aid, this is another item in the state budget that was highly publicized. The high cost special education program provides reimbursement for excess cost of any special education student that has a higher than $30,000 cost per year. The reimbursement rates for next year 2526 is going up to 50% and will be 90% of 2627. While those are very high percentages, I do want to indicate that the high cost special education program serves less than half
060a percent of all special education students statewide. And for the school district of Milton, this will have minimal any impact as it would depend on having these student access here, which we don't want to happen. Open enrollment private school vouchers, there was a significant increase in the payments in these areas. The open enrollment payment for this coming year is increasing 1140 to $1,140. This is a very high increase and will change the dynamic of our open enrollment in dollars are calculated. While it will incur increase our allocation in the short term, keep in mind that this trend could change in given time and does not indicate windfall or a source of new revenue in the district for a sustainable period. The doctor program also saw a significant increase of $640 in this coming year and
061$428 in year two. This however will have a impact on the budget as we did not estimate the elevator to be this high. But the voucher tax in total will increase of 11 14% each year dividing into two years and those will come in the form of property taxes on those. Federal funding is probably the biggest question mark left on the table. We started hearing at end of June that many federal grant programs were under review. We don't exactly know what that means at this point. We've heard that there is some focus on teacher training indicating title 2 a English language supports or title three and academic enrichment type four might be the most under scrutiny at the moment. While these are certainly not zero dollar applications to school district the important thing I want
062I want to hear to know and anyone who's listening is we are not currently engaging any program reductions or stoppage of these programs while we're waiting for clear information. I will be planning to schedule I'm sure address is there on meeting too finance committee meeting at the end of July between the second meeting and the first meeting of August to discuss how this is going to shake out for the SM budget before we get to the end we'll keep more information that's budget questions thank you for that um discussion possible actions on student academic standards. Julie, good evening. This is the standard every year annually. Um the district is recommending the adoption of based on Wisconsin state statute um of the academic standards that we use um for the 2526 school year. So that was
063supposed to share with all of you with the links the different standards um within the different programs that we currently use before next school year. So this this based on state this will be um presented in public notice um from the school board and then a recommendation to adopt questions. Julie, are there any changes to this from previous years? No, we just added um some more around the some other standards that we used um because the actual published bonus is around um CLA, math, science, social studies, but we felt that we wanted to share all of all of the areas of the content areas of the standard that we use. We had more. I would move to approve the student academic standards for 202526 as they have been presented. Second motion from a second from
064we are pointing at each other. That's not it to have a motion from a second from Tracy. Any other questions or discussion? All those in favor please say I. I say sign. Motion carries. update on new 2526 open enrollment students second to yeah you can see uh the attachment there I will walk through some things with that from early February from February 3rd until April 30th the state opens the window for applications for open enrollment preschool districts for the coming year and then a after April 30th that closes uh until uh July 1st when uh the alternative uh application uh window opens. So um what we do is we compile uh any applicants for either open enrollment in or open enrollment out uh for the coming year. These are new open enrollment uh students. They're
065not students that have already been open enrollment in or out. Um and I'll walk through the document. Uh this data is as of July 10th uh so Thursday of last week and it does not include any new open enrollment students who have applied since that alternative enrollment on July 1 and we have had a few both in and out since that time. Uh starting on that top table that's open enrollment in by each grade level. the column that says new open enroll in applications submitted for this year. You can see that there were 85 of those. Uh that isn't the number of students that will be coming through open enrollment because they apply and then school districts look at their policies around admitting students. Uh we had shared earlier that we have some students that
066apply who are on an IEP in areas where we don't have space and we follow our policy that we had to turn some of those students down and then other families apply and then they decide even even if they are approved they decide that they uh aren't going to go to that sweet district either to stay at their original resident district or going to go to a different district. In that next column though it has that total by grade level of uh those new uh applications the enrollment of them. So of those 85 applications submitted we have 67 students that will be enrolling you can see both in the applications and the enrollment uh a large majority of those are in 4K and kindergarten. That's not unusual at all that often times families that decide
067to open enroll into or out of a school district will do it uh as the student is starting school. What you can also see at the other grade levels we have uh I guess one grade where we don't have anyone but up to five students at some of the other grade levels. The next column is the number of returning open enrollment in students who were uh in our schools this past year and they are rolled up to the next grade. So for for instance, if you look at 12th grade, it says 33. Those are students who were 11th graders this past school year that would be in 12th grade for the coming year. And then when we add those new 67 students to the 400 returning, you can see the 467 anticipated open enroll in
068uh students. That of course is projected because that students could change their mind. They could move into the school district and then they would no longer be open enroll in. Uh but that's kind of where we stand for open enroll in students for the coming year. The table below that is is all open enroll the same format. That first column is the number of applications. You can see there were six and five of those. Um most of those at 4K and but also a larger number at ninth grade. And I made a note on the bottom that oftent times at 4K those are families that base their enrollment for 4K on where they have available wraparound care. Um, so we do see every year a larger group open enroll out of that 4K. And then
069ninth grade uh is typically students that have attended Poial School through 8th grade and then that school doesn't offer high school grades. So then they would they would live in our district but they're open enrolling through a different district for uh 9th grade. So, uh, of those 65, it is also important to note that only two of those 65 are students who were with us this past year and are open enrolling out of our district. Otherwise, they're incoming four carers. They're those ninth graders that have been in pro schools. oftentimes uh out of the rest of the students, it will be families that lived in another district where residents in that other district had always attended school there and they recently moved into our district, but they want to continue to finish out their schooling
070in in the school district where they have started. We don't have uh data for enrollment uh of those 65 uh because we don't always hear from them until uh they show up in the fall on whether they're uh for sure going to be um attending another school or not. So we'll have that number in the third Friday count. Um this past year as we roll those students up from last year. This year we had 315 open and roll out. When we add those 65 to that, if all 65 do end up open and rolling out, that would put us at 380 open and roll out students uh for the coming year. And then I added a couple notes on the bottom. Um at this point in the year, it's very much a projection because we'll
071always have uh families moving in and out of the school district over the summer months. We also anticipate um kindergarten typically grows and 4K typically grows during July and August. Families still are registering. But right now for our K through three, our average class size projection for this coming year is 21.5 students per classroom, which is down a shade from last year. It ranges from 18 at kindergarten at East to a high of 24.5 on average for third grade at West. And our projected class average class size for uh North Side for grades four through six is 26.9 students which is up a shade from last year. We don't typically do a a projected average class size for the middle school and high school because it depends on what courses those students take with with
072some elective classes. There's not really a students who are assigned to a specific class for the full day like there is with our elementary schools. So, our our formal count for this coming year will come with that third Friday count in in September. Uh we get that back and usually report that back to the board at the first board meeting in October. Um but as we start of the school year, I usually give the board an update on where we are with enrollment um at that second board meeting in August because we would be dialed in better then than we are now. Rich, so you're making estimates based on what you know from district because we we this district hasn't even opened up the enrollment yet. So as you're looking at where you think the
073class sizes will be moving forward, you're just using the past. So the new construction that's in some of the areas could possibly blow up your productions in the area, right? Yeah, we take that into account. We we our enrollment window is is in the spring. So that has already taken place. There are for open I'm talking about district. Yeah, for district two for enrollment for district. So, we always take in place the students that we have in place. Um, unless unless or until we hear otherwise, we assume that they're coming back. And typically families are good about letting us know if they move, but not always and they're not required to. Sometimes we hear from uh the district where they end up moving to. Um, so it's always a bit of an estimate and there's
074again always changes this time of year. Uh, you mentioned new housing. Um, so, um, we anticipate that our largest growth is going to be in 4K and kindergarten between now and the start of the year because that's always the case. To to clarify that point, it's so somebody moves to the district a week before school starts. I mean, they're guaranteed a spot at the school that's closest to where they live, or is it still Just want to clarify that it's not always the closest to where they live. It's the attendance area that they're in. And there may be some circumstances where a student might be in one attendance area even though they're closer to another. Sure. Okay. Uh, another question if I may. Uh, the North Side 26.9 students um projected average what what's our
075high threshold? Like where do we start to look at possibly needing another section or whatever? Yeah, that's that's getting close to where we would look at adding sections at at North Side. Um I think I'm comfortable with where we are for this coming year, but we continue to monitor it as the summer goes on. Oh, on that I know we talked about earlier in the year that I think we added something at the middle school because the sixth grade class moved and the fifth so it's not it's an average I think too but each class is completely different because I think the fifth is smaller than the current sixth that's moving to seventh and yes as we make those projections we always look at changes at each school because and at each level because as
076one one example is if we have a large third grade class that's moving into fourth grade. Uh and and if that's bigger than the sixth grade class that's moving out of North Side, then we have then we'll be bigger at North Side. And we always look at that. We run our projections. We look at those uh ratios and allocate staffing to the principles uh based on what those projections are. But we also always look at changes as those are happening. If the board remembers, we brought an additional teacher at kindergarten for the coming year because our kindergarten enrollment was already starting to grow and we anticipate that it would continue to. So, we built in a little bit of buffer at kindergarten for this coming year. Um, at all of our schools, we have space
077for the likely addition of more kindergarten students coming up. Other questions? I just had one comment I would make and I think I made similar comments a year ago. Um, anybody in the room that's had a little bit of a history in this in the district knows that uh this used to be kind of flipped the other way. These numbers and we've probably not seen them in this detail sometimes, but we used to get negative open enrollment district to the tune of about a hundred students. And um I was on some committee work 20 years ago that looked at how do we fix that? And there is no single answer. Of course um families and students choose us or don't choose us based on a number of factors some of which you can't control. However,
078I think the board, the district, the staff, the the parents, the community should feel really, really proud about moving that needle because that is, if you know how schools function, that is monumentally hard to change. And we have, and as Ross indicated, we're not going to bank on this trend continuing. We can't put a fine number on how many kids it is, but we have tipped over the the teeter totter, if you will. Uh we were negative, we are now positive. Um it has a little bit of a financial advantage to us. That's good. Um but I think I just wanted to reiterate the point of where we used to be compared to where we are. We should all be proud of that and own it. Um that is hard to do and u kudos
079to everybody that has helped move that needle. So, I just want to echo that. It's even bigger because there's some that we couldn't take. So, the needle would have been even bigger had we been able to take those. So, again, thank you. Anything else, right? Thank you so much for the detail. Appreciate that and answering the questions. And we will move on to miscellaneous 6A. I would entertain a motion on the staffing report. I'll move to approve the staffing staffing report as presented. I have a motion from John, a second from Ed. Any questions? All those in favor, please say I. I. Right. We are on to gifts and donations. I'll make a motion to approve the gifts and donations of gratitude. Second. Have a motion to make a second from Tracy. Any questions? All
080those in favor, please say I. I. That's right. Social meeting dates. We have a few different things coming up. I'm going to highlight some things both throughout the rest of July and into August. Um we have tomorrow night school finance and budget meeting school finance road map. Um that is at 6:30 p.m. here at the PDC. And then next week, Tuesday, we have a governance committee meeting. That's Tuesday the 22nd. Also at 6:30 here in the PDC. Uh we have an HR committee meeting on Wednesday of next week at 12:30. Uh that will be in the uh first floor conference room. We have our next regularly scheduled board meeting on on Monday, July 28th at 6:30. We have that evening a data workshop which will follow on the regularly scheduled board meeting. That's July 28th.
081After our regular meeting, we have a couple of things that aren't committee or board meetings that board members are are invited to attend. I guess one of those is Milton High School has a student council breakfast that board members are invited to. So, we'll be posting that. Uh that's on August 7th at 7:30 a.m. at the high school. Uh we have our board development session on Wednesday, August 20th at 6:30 p.m. that will be here in the PDC. And then our our regularly scheduled board meetings in August are on August 11th and the 25th, both at 6:30. And that second one, the August 25th, is also the evening of our annual meeting, which will follow the regular rescheduled meeting. Not a question, but a comment. Could you just repeat that first event you said that
082is tomorrow? It's very important that a lot of people come to like the time and the name of it again. I will. And before I do that, we also, if you lost mentioned, we're working to schedule a finance committee meeting between the second board meeting in July and the first board meeting in August. We'll reach out by email to send out some potential dates for that. That first item that John mentioned is our school finance road map. that is tomorrow evening at 6:30m and is open to the public. Uh we have sent uh emails out and Carrie has done a lot of social media blasts on that topic. I think one included Ross and some kittens. I saw that it was very I would say is the word that I heard most often about. Uh
083but we encourage community members to attend. We we won't live stream it but we will record it and it will be available. But the intent is to uh continue dialogue with our community members about uh school finance across the state, what impact both the current uh state budget and uh school finance in general has on our school district and our community. So it'll be a a short presentation followed by uh conversation, questions, and answers. And I would just encourage all the board members to consider attending that finance committee meeting. It'll be a lot with the state budget at that meeting. It would be helpful if you were all able to attend that possible. And then I would also like to thank Carrie. We have this fancy new setup which has distracted me several times because
084there's so many beautiful images of us right in front of us. And so thank you for that setup. Appreciate it. Anything else? Can we those island finance? Can can we get invited to that? So because I will calendar wrong for sure myself. Make sure I'll give it to you first on it. I can see somebody add us to the calendar event for the finance to be added to that calendar invite. Yeah, we haven't set that date yet. What do you do? We'll get that out. I just know I'll get myself. All right. Anything else? One more thing I should mention. Uh, I wanted to congratulate and thank and recognize Annette and John. Uh, both attended WASBY's summer learning symposium uh, Friday and Saturday up in Stevens Point. U, I was actually part of the panel
085that did that and that had been set up a number of months ago following something I did in Milwaukee, but um, it was great to see them up there and our district was well well represented and um, I hope they learned a lot. Well, I better put it on the next agenda for us to do a short report out of the things we learned. So we'll definitely be sharing some lessons learned from that. It really was a wonderful event. I would jo All right. I would entertain a motion to adjourn. I move Tracy. I'll second that. I second. All right. All those in favor say I. I up.