001at 7 o'clock. I will open this up. Cole, are you ready there? All right, great. Uh, we're going to enter the uh the 2526 budget hearing. This is a um for all public school districts, common school districts like ours. All school districts are required to have an annual uh budget hearing that precedes the annual meeting which will start at 7:30. So tonight at the budget hearing, we'll go through the proposed tax levy, the proposed budget. Um and then at 7:30 when the annual meeting begins, the electors of the school district have a vote uh and there's seven things that we will look for input on from our electors who are residents of our district here tonight. The seven things we'll look for is we'll look for approval um to authorize a tax levy for fund
00241, which is our capital expansion fund. We can't move forward with a fund 141 tax levy unless the voters and the electors of the school district approve that and then the other tax levies and funds 1039 and 80 are rolled up together and we'll ask for your input on that as well. That's not a binding vote. That is simply a vote to see if there's community support to let the school district uh school board know are you on the right path with your tax levy. Um, we'll also vote on uh setting the MASD school board member salaries. Uh, those at those values, whatever they're agreed to, are going to be set by the folks in this room tonight. And then there's four areas where we look for the electors to give the school board permission
003to sell property that's no longer needed to establish next year's annual meeting date. By default, it's the third Monday of July, unless the electors give permission to set a different date uh to authorize the purchase of student accident insurance and to acquire real estate should a situation come up along um the course of a school year. Normally, if there was no authorization, then um there could be a second special meeting that has the same powers where purchasing land ultimately is the electors get a say, not necessarily the school board in certain areas. At 8 o'clock, we'll have the schoolboard meeting. So, tonight as we go through the budget and the tax levy, here's a preview of the of the budget. So, we have uh several funds here that we're going to go through, and I'll
004spend a little time on each of our funds explaining those, but I want to highlight three that are on the screen right now um that we're going to spend a little more time on. Uh fund 10, fund 27, and fund 39 are the largest funds that we have in terms of revenues and expenditures. It's not to minimize the other funds. They're all important, but when you take a look at each of those funds on the far left, you can see that the general fund at 66 million and change is easily the biggest fund. So, we're going to spend more time talking about that fund. Fund 27, you as I have my laser on that there, you could see that's our second biggest uh fund just about there with 11 million in and out. 139. That's
005where we levy uh uh tax onto the citizens to pay for our debts associated with the middle school and high school project. This large one that you see here is fund 49. So once we issued $82 million uh via public bonds that were sold and those funds that were raised and deposited into a district account, you can see that we have a little bit of interest income there from the $82 million that's deposited. But as we begin to build the middle school here in the coming weeks, months, and over the course of the next two years, you can see that we're going to start to spend that money to make that building happen. So the preview of the tax levy is I'll go through this step by step, but to give a preview on the
006front end, you can see from 23, we have uh there's a few different types of tax levies that get rolled up into one. In 2324, that was $32.4 million. We cut that by half a percent last year, so it dropped down to 32.3 million. But this year, unfortunately, uh what you're hearing from me tonight is a 7% increase. And I'll give you the why during this presentation so the community understand. But the proposed tax levy we're discussing tonight is 7.4 more% last year than last year's due to declining state support for MASD schools um from the 2527 state bianial budget. So I want to just give you that information on the front end and we'll go through the why behind everything. The budget that we developed ultimately started back in January. We adopted assumptions because
007we have to take a guess as what our third Friday in September enrollment counts will look like and we have to assume at least at that time how much money per student we would raise. In February uh middle school and high school students started to select their courses and we presented a five-year budget which at that time showed a $1.4 $4 million deficit. I am proud to report tonight that we are presenting balanced budgets and any deficit we had. We closed those gaps. In March, we set staffing levels based on student enrollment and we also adopted a 10-year capital plan to address our building needs. In April, uh our second biggest line item is health insurance. That's a very volatile element of all school district and all business uh uh financials. So, we set our
008health insurance funding levels in May. final teacher contracts were sent for 2526. In June, the school board adopted the preliminary budget that you're hearing tonight. In July, in early July, the state finalized their bienial budget. So, it wasn't until just last month that we finally changed from assumed funding values to known funding values. And the school board then adopted the preliminary tax levy in July that you'll hear tonight as well. here in August. Tonight we have the budget and uh uh budget hearing an annual meeting. Next month we will have the third Friday enrollment counts on September 19th. So then we can change from an assumed student enrollment count to a known value. And then in October, state aid amounts will be published on a uh October 13th and we will finalize the budget and
009finalize the tax levy at the uh school board meeting on the 27th. Actually, that might be the 20th. I apologize because we're going on the third Friday. So typo by me. I apologize. So there's a lot of assumptions that we still have yet to actually realize here with student enrollment counts and state aid amounts. So the preliminary budget and the preliminary tax levy are absolute best guesses uh as to where we are. So as we talk about how the school district receives receives our funding will go through our tax levy. We have 26 sources of revenue that come into our general fund fund 10 that total $66.1 million. And if we look at just the top four, that's 97% of all of our funding. State aid and local property taxes are what we're going to
010focus on in the next several slides. We are anticipating 27.7 million in state support and 27.4 million in local property taxes. We received $5.4 million from open enrollment tuition. That's from students who live in other school districts that open enroll into our district. And then we re that last final per pupil categorical aid is from the state. We get 742 additional dollars per student. That totals 3.4 million. But the the top two ultimately represents 83% of our revenue. And we're going to focus on those. So how we we we talk a lot about a revenue limit. And a revenue limit ultimately is a limit on the amount of money a school district can receive between state aid and property taxes. So when we add these two together, there is a limit per state law. What
011we'll do first is we'll calculate what is our limit of revenue. How much can we receive between these two sources? That's step one. Then we'll back into state aid. State aid is the amount we'll find out uh on October 13th. And then once we know what state aid is, we can finally back into what our property tax amount will be. So as we take a look at the first step of that is calculating the revenue limit. We take a three-year average of our third Friday counts in September. We multiply that by the MASD per student amount and then we add or subtract any adjustments in there. The MASD per student amount is unique to every school district. Back in 9394 when revenue uh for school districts was limited, you can see that every school district
012is different here. Maguano was the least funded school district in Walkshaw County when this law was um first created and you can see there's a wide discrepancy in funding values throughout just the county. Fast forward to 2223, you could see that there's an inflationary value that comes from the state budget. So the state budget can sometimes increase through a flat dollar amount per student or they'll link it to inflation. But fast forward to three years ago, you can see we are still at the bottom, a full thousand dollars behind uh Elmrook. In 2324, the state bianual budget here said, "Hey, let's create a new minimum value and raise everybody under 11,000 to the $11,000 ceiling or I should say minimum rather." At after the 2324 year, we move forward one year and everybody was able
013to add $325. that was at the bottom as did everybody at the top. And if we fast forward one more year as we enter this school year, those at the bottom are at 11650. Kettle Marine is now at the top over $14,000 in funding on a per student basis. So this $11,650 increased by 325 courtesy of the state bianial budget. So, if we take our third our assumed value for third Friday in September, multiply it by our amount of funding per student, we create a pot of money of 52.8 million. We add in adjustments of 3.1 million. Over half of that amount represents charter school students that live in our district that do not attend our schools. Uh, but ultimately we serve as a pass through entity to receive money and forward that onto those
014schools. But our revenue limit, we cannot receive more than $56 million through state aid and property taxes. That's the max amount. So step one is calculated. So now we'll move to step two and go through state aid. Of this $56 million, how much will the state contribute to that amount? It would be great if the state paid all of it. We could eliminate the K12 property tax on all of our residents. That's not reality. So we just hope that the state will take as much as they can minimizing the impact on our taxpayers. State aid works that costs that we have in 2425 will be reimbursed one year later. We had $61.8 million in shared costs last year that ultimately results in 27.7 million in aid this year. That $61.8 $.8 million in shared cost
015divided by the number of pupils used for this count means that we have just under just over $12,900 in shared costs per pupil. That 12,900 gets divided into three tiers. The first thousand we have the secondary area and then the tertiary area. This bar that separates the secondary area and the tertiary area represents 90% of the statewide spending average. We don't know that value. um how school districts spent in 2425 ultimately affects that. So we make our best estimate there. In the meantime, the first thousand dollars we received 39.7% of those costs reimbured one year later. The second uh secondary tier we received 46.3% of those costs one year later. And at the tertiary tier, we received negative 10%. So those three percentages there are all equalized. They are based on the average property value.
016per MASD student. Um and then that's they make that value relative to the state average. So every school district um if you're property rich, you don't get these percentages are small. If you're property poor relative to the state average, then these percentages are high and this number becomes positive. Okay, we are negatively aided tertiary school district. So, at the primary level, the first thousand dollars per stu uh in uh spending last year, we get 39.7% of those dollars back. We multiply that by our 4,777 students, which generates $1.8 million in state aid at the primary level. At the secondary level, we receive 25.9 million. And at the tertiary level, we lose $100,000. It all adds up to 27.7 million. And that is our equalized uh equalization aid or state aid. It's the same thing. So
017just to recap, 61.8 million in shared cost last year results in 27.7 million in state aid this year. We can now find that we know what our max value is. Here's how much the state will provide. The rest goes to the taxpayers of 28.2 million. That's about uh if I round that for simplicity purposes, it's almost a 5050 split. Last year, the state took 53% of that cost. You can see the state is backing off on their investments than K12, which puts more pressure. Last year, our taxpayers had to pay 47% of the revenue limit. This year, they're being asked for 50 due to declining state support. All right. Last year, if we take a look, we received 28.8 8 million in state aid. This year it falls to 27.7. So we have less state
018support um from the bianial budget. All right. What occurs then is the state aid that we received the 27.7 million gets put into fund 10. The school board will then say of the 28.2 million in tax levy, how much do we put in fund 41? Well, that's money that's being set aside for f future building needs and the remainder goes to fund 10. What we're proposing tonight, you can see this on page 14 of the uh of the budget packet. If you flip to that, you'll see that we're proposing to drop uh to put $800,000 into our maintenance needs, the fund via cap uh fund 41. That's for preventative maintenance. It's to keep our buildings working uh to make sure that there's no leaks, all those things. The remaining amount will go to fund 10.
019Those that tax levy is restricted by the revenue limit law. The school board cannot levy any more than that. There's two more tax levies that take place. We have a $6.3 million tax levy to continue to pay off the high school debt that is governed and restricted by the residents of the district. We could not levy 6.3 million unless we successfully passed a referendum to justify that. And then finally, there's $150,000 in the community service fund that is restricted and governed by the school board's decisions. There's no limit. There's no maximum. You just have to be able to answer to the community to say, "Do you support this tax levy?" That tax levy pays for two school resource officers at uh the at the middle school and at the high school. When we add up
020all four of those levies, it's a $34.7 million total tax levy. Um, again, that has grown due to declining state support, which is unfortunate. I wish I had better news. The mill rate here, you can see on the far left, going back to the very first year of our revenue limit laws. Um, the mill rate is a measure of intensity of how much is the school district asking for relative to property values. You can see that uh so for a thousand dollars of a household's value uh you would multiply and do the math to figure out what is the average tax levy per household. Last year we hit the lowest mill rate in district history at $5.82. I know that's it's hard to see that if you're sitting in the audience section here at $612
021the proposed mill rate this year is still the second lowest mill rate in our district's history. So in other words, uh relatively speaking, the ask for the K12 school district is as low as it's really been almost historically relative to the value of houses inside the MASD. So that's how we receive our two largest revenue sources. That's the 83% that funds our school district and really is the financial lifeblood of what we do and and to fund our operations. So now we'll talk about how we will spend that revenue. Okay. So, again, we go back to page 14. At the top, we have our fund summary that goes through. It shows our beginning fund balance on June uh excuse me, July 1 of this year. Here's the anticipated revenues that we anticipate collecting, our anticipated
022expenditures, and then our final fund balance that we're estimating for June uh excuse me, June 30, 2026. We'll go through these funds. I'll quickly highlight just two because they they're relatively easy to explain. Fund 21 is for donations and student activities. Uh we anticipate 1.3 million in revenues and an equal number in expenditures. Uh 1.1 million of that is for student activities. So those are fundraisers from our band and art groups, from our football players, our soccer players, all of our athletes, all of our musicians. when they raise funds, they get to keep those funds and spend those funds how they see fit. So when the money gets raised by the kids, we spend the money back on the kids according to what they choose. And so that we anticipate a break even budget in
023fund 21. Fund 27 is a scholarship trust fund. So certain donations have been made historically. We invest those into safe investments like CDs. We collect the interest and then we award scholarships at the end of the school year to our departing seniors as they move on. and we project 35,000 in receipts and revenues and an equal amount in expenditures. Okay. So, we serve as a fiduciary holder of the money. It doesn't technically belong to any of us, but we operate in good faith to make sure that we honor the intent of those who donated those scholarship trust funds to begin with. So, that leaves us with a few funds here that we'll go through these now and explain the budget. When we add fund 10 and 27 together, that's really our operating budget. We simply
024segregate our our spending into fund 27 so we can clearly define how much are we spending on special education. We have to be able to justify that we are making investments into kids with IEPs. When we take a look at the investments or the uh revenues that we have between funds 10 and 27 combined, we have the top seven um sources of revenue there. uh you can see the description of what that revenue is, who's providing that revenue and then the total amount. These seven sources again represent 98% of our operating revenues and these are really significant revenues. When we take a look as to where does money come from for our operating budgets in fund 10 and 27, 49% of all the dollars we receive comes from the state governments. So every time that
025we make a payment and we have a five five and a half percent sales tax, that money gets added up into the state's budget and our state lawmakers ultimately determine how do we distribute that money. K12 is the largest investment in the state budget. Um there's corrections, there's the UW system, there's uh Department of Transportation, there's a lot of things vying for those funds, but state government provides um almost 50% of our funds. Our local residents provide and local sources provide 41%. Other school districts give us 8% of our operating budgets primarily through open enrollment and students coming to our district. We get 2% from the federal governments and then we have a small sliver um that doesn't even get up to 1% there. But that's where we receive our money. We're highly dependent on
026state government and local uh citizens. When we take a look at our expenditures, salaries is our number one expense. So in In a in an entity like ours, we are driven by people. We don't have research and development or heavy machinery like some private sector employers might have. But we are highly dependent on people to teach students. 52% of our expenses are in salaries, another 19% in benefits for a total of 71%. Typically, a school district should be between 71 and 75%, excuse me, 70 and 75% of their operating budget in salaries and benefits. Purchase services is 21% of our expenditures there. That represents $3.5 million for school bus transportation, $2.9 million for students who open and roll out, $1.3 million for utilities to keep the lights on, the air conditioning on, the heat on.
027We have $2.2 $2 million in expenses there for students who are attending private voucher and charter schools. So, there's a lot of purchase services that we give to other entities to keep the lights on, to keep the buses showing up. Capital objects is 4% of our budget. That represents things over $5,000 individually. So, we're really talking technology and some building needs. 3% for supplies. So, that's anything under $5,000. We're talking paper, pencils, the basics. And then we have 1% dedicated towards property insurance and liability insurance. When we take a look at uh the uh operating expenses in funds 10 and 27, um again I'm proud to report that we have a balanced budget. Funds 10 and 27 are balanced. General fund revenues as we head to next year decrease by 1.5 million when we compare
028those values to 2425 actual revenues. Here you can see our full-time equivalent amount of employees from teachers, administrators, professional staff, pupil services staff, and hourly support staff. And you can see that we had to adjust our budget primarily here with teachers to make sure that the amount of teachers we have meet student enrollment and course selection. So as student enrollment declines, we have to adjust accordingly and always be nimble to produce a balanced budget. As we move on from funds 10 and 27 and we talk about fund 39, this is where we levy debt. Uh we have a tax levy to pay referendum approved um approved referendums. We had one in 2016 that's wrapping up shortly and the most recent one that we have this past November. Details are on page 21 and 29, but
029what we anticipate is $7.1 million of debt payments this coming school year. We will levy $6.3 million and we have some fund balance available. So we're able to take the $6.3 million that we're going to receive from taxpayers. Use the fund balance and make $7.1 million in payments. Next, this tax levy here in fund 39 does not reflect the middle school tax levy. That levy will begin next year. So this year we're levying 6.3 million. Next year that will increase to 7.2 2 million as we begin a 20-year march to pay off the new middle school. Fund 41 is a fund that pays for truly maintenance of our eight school buildings. We anticipate $800,000 via uh our our our revenue limited tax levy plus another 25,000 in interest income and 675,000 in expenditures. Our beginning
030fund balance is 3.9 million. Our ending fund balance is just over four million. Those dollars are set aside and reserved strictly to make sure that anytime a new roof is needed, such as the one next door at Clarin, uh we want to make sure that we don't have leaks, that the buildings are assets of the community, that we pass these assets along to future generations, and that we don't let them uh don't let them fade. So we have proper fund balance such that I don't foresee the school board or the administration asking the community for another referendum to say, "Hey, we need help patching our roof up. We need help uh maintaining our buildings. We have fiscally uh with fiscal prudence set money aside to meet the needs of our buildings without asking for additional
031help. Building a brand new building is difficult. It's pretty much impossible to sock away and set aside $89 million to build the new one, but it is reasonable to say, "Hey, set money aside so you maintain the buildings that you have." We've done that. We will continue to do that. Fund 46 works just like fund 41. All the funds in the 40s are all related to buildings. At the end of a school year, if there's money left over, we can take that money from the operating budget and transfer it into fund 46, which is to set money aside for future building needs. We adopted this budget in fund 46 really, I think about June 23rd before the fiscal year ended. We had a number of projects that we were working on throughout the school district
032that weren't quite done yet. We started working on the roof at Claren next door. Rain will set that back. We were hoping it was done by June 30th, but we set the money aside last year. We weren't able to spend that money last year because the project wasn't completed. So, that project now rolls over into the current school year. So, although we appropriated the money last year, it's not until this year we'll actually be spending it. The June uh July 1 to June 30 fiscal year doesn't really lend itself to summer projects real cleanly. Ultimately, what will happen is is that our beginning fund balance is in the budget you see tonight is 6.3 million and the ending fund balance is $6.3 million. When I come back in October and present it, it will like
033we'll actually have about $4 million of projects we were not able to complete by June 30 that will simply roll over into the next school year. But the the main point I'm making right now is we have an additional 2.3 million set aside again for projects on our 10-year capital plan. Every building we own uh that we take responsibility for has a lot of thought that goes into it to make sure do we have um a replacement schedule for our boilers, for our heaters, for our roofs, for the windows, for everything that our buildings require. and we are setting those dollars aside to meet the needs of those buildings when those projects come due according to the 10-year plan. All right, fund 49. This is where we raised the $82 million in our first bond
034issue. We set that money aside solely strictly for the referendum question that was asked last November, which is to build a new middle school. We put $82 million into this account. We anticipate earning 2.8 8 million through interest earnings over the coming fiscal year and we anticipate spending 32 million of that for work performed between July 1st in June 30 of next year. So ultimately the money that's placed in this account will be spent down as we need to to complete the middle school project. The purpose of these dollars is again is to pay for construction of a new middle school. Other funds that we have here uh fund 50 is our food service. We have details on page 25. We anticipate 2.8 million in revenues, 2.9 million in expenditures. We have a very healthy
035fund balance of over just over $1 million. Um, but our we work our fund balance down. The reason is in 2425, we increased our meal prices by 40 cents. Our school board has put a lot of thought into making sure that we're not raising meal prices too much on our students who eat our meals through our school. We serve thousands of meals a day. Um we are probably the largest restaurant in all of Maguano when you think about our food service program in that sense. We raised meal prices 20 cents this year and our goal is to create a break even budget where revenues equal expenditures and we're balanced in fund 50. Uh we have a little bit of uh again more expenses than revenues due to some one-time uh expensive equipment that's needed in
036some of our kitchens throughout the district in each of our schools. Fund 73 is our employee trust fund. So when we hire a brand new teacher today in addition to their salary, part of their compensation package says that we will pay $1,000 per year of service if they stick with us till age 55 and have 20 years of service with us. Those $1,000 per year will add up and will be paid out upon uh retiring in good standing from the school district. As teachers stay with us and acrew years of service, the amount we owe them grows. I'm proud to report that we are fully funded here. We don't owe uh we don't need to set aside future dollars at this time. That future liabilities that we have are funded right now. That we're not
037kicking the can towards future school boards to deal with or future administration to deal with. When we say we owe money in the future, we properly set money aside to pay for those future liabilities. they are funded. Our last fund then is fund 80. That's uh the two school resource officers totaling 150,000 in cost. We levy that tax and then we pay that money to the village of Maguano who provides the two school resource officers to provide student safety at our middle school and our high school. Fund also has a community education program that's self- sustaining. So we it raises about 35,000 in revenues and has 35,000 expenses. We're not looking to necessarily raise revenues this way, but to really to just offer a community education program that our kids, our residents can access that
038the school district ultimately offers. So, in summary here, as we back up into the 7:30 time slot here and the annual meeting will be shortly, the summary of our financial affairs is this is that um I wish I had better news. For years and years, we decrease our tax levy by about half a percent each year. Um the tax levy is set to increase uh by 7.4%. When we consider the mill rate, the mill rate is the second lowest in our district history at $612 per $1,000 of a house's or property's value. So while the school levy is up relative to house values, the K12 mill rate is historically low. We have a balanced budget. When student enrollment decreases, our revenue decreases and therefore our staff should decrease and we've accomplished that. It was hard
039work, but um I believe that the budget reflects uh fiscal prudence. Our employee benefits costs have been contained. So I mentioned earlier that our health insurance uh is one of our most volatile line items and we have worked extremely hard to contain those costs and we've done a good job there. Our fund balance is in a good position. We have 32% fund balance available. Board policy asked that we maintain a minimum of 15%. But the money that's uh there as fund balance can be used again to make sure that we are meeting the needs of our kids. And should any one-time projects uh present themselves, we are funded to handle those. We do not short-term borrow. Uh when you take a look at our cash flow, all school districts really bottom out uh and hit
040low water marks with their cash position in November and December, many school districts, including many here in Waksha County, uh run out of money on hand and have to do short-term borrows through their local banks to cover their payrolls and other things that occur in November, December. However, we do not have to do that. We avoid those unnecessary short-term interest costs. We are also double A plus rated which puts us in the top six school uh excuse me top yep six school districts in the state who are rated by standard and pores and top 18 financial performing school districts in the state when we consider those that are rated by Moody's. Our referendum debt will begin next year. Uh and our oped our future liabilities associated with teacher um teacher compensation packages if we owe
041money in the future those are already fully funed. So we again we are not kicking the can. That's the summary of our financial affairs. That's the budget and that's the tax levy. Deb. Yes. Sure. Sure. I'm going to get to it here. Uh let me click back a few times here. There we go. categorical aid special education comes from the state government. That value this year was about two last year was 2.7 or 2.8 million give or take and now that's at 3 million. So it provided some help. Um so but ultimately what I would like to have seen was that state aid from the state government would increase. That's the biggest investment from our state government. Um that goes back to the founding constitution of the state of Wisconsin is to pro provide uh
042education for all residents, all kids. Um and state would help share in that cost. I wish they would have shared more. Okay. Any other questions from the electors of the school district? Yes. Yep. Sure. So, yep. Those go. So, li this should really say liability and property insurance. It's it's um kind of just lumped it together there. But yeah, those have increased as well. As hurricanes and natural disasters occur and insurance companies are ultimately paying for fires out west or floods down south, our rates go up here. So really, nobody's immune to that. Yes, those costs have gone up significantly. the cost to replace anything um should there be a tornado, god forbid, or what have you. Um it costs a lot to replace those things and therefore insurance is up significantly. Anything else? Okay,
043I appreciate. Thank you. Okay. Uh we will now move into our annual meeting. Um I will serve as the temporary chairperson uh for the meeting. Uh this is the annual meeting of the Mcuano Area School District of Waka County in the state of Wisconsin. Uh we had our formal budget hearing which is uh meets our statutory code requirement. Uh we were posted for this meeting uh on the school district's official newspaper in the Waua Freeman. I'd ask everybody to stand please for the pledge of >> allegiance to the flag of America to the republic for it stands nationy and justice for all. >> So I welcome everybody tonight and thank you all for attending. Um so this evening all Muano area school districts residents um uh who wish to participate in the meeting uh must
044register. Laura, do you have the list of registrants? There are 13 individuals uh that are signed up tonight. So tonight everybody is a member of the annual meeting uh participant. Um there are some voting requirements. Uh, you must be a citizen of the United States 18 years or older, and you must be a resident of the district for at least 28 days prior to any election. Um, tonight, uh, our board clerk is not here with us this evening, so I do need to take nominations, uh, for a clerk. >> I'd like to nominate Jake Highenthal. >> Second. >> Jake, do you accept this nomination? I accept. Are there any other nominations for clerk? >> Any other nominations? All right, we will need to then uh Oh, wait. We don't need to vote because Jake is
045unanimous uh for the clerk. Take note down. Okay. What's that? You can't say all in favor of Jake, please say I. >> I. I. >> Any opposed to Jake? >> Okay. >> Jake passes. All right. >> Nice job, Jake. >> Jake, good job. >> All right. Uh I will now take uh nominations uh for a chairperson of the meeting. >> I'd like to nominate Craig Vertz. >> Second. >> There's been a motion and a second for Vertz. Mr. Vertz, do you accept the nomination? >> I do. Thank you. >> Are there other uh nominations for chairperson of the meeting? Are there any other nominations for chairperson of the meeting? Okay. Uh there has been a motion and a second for Mr. Craig Bertz to be the chairperson of the meeting. Uh we will take a
046voice vote. All in favor of Craig, >> please say I. >> I. >> Are there any opposed to Craig? All right, being none, Craig, you take over the meeting now. >> Uh, thank you, Joe. Dr. Cook, sorry. So, we're starting at seven. Is that correct? Uh, minutes of the 2024 annual meeting. No action required. Reports. Uh, treasury report. Yes. So for the treasures report, the accounting firm of Hawkins Ash CPA's LLP of Manitawak, Wisconsin is in the process of auditing the general purpose financial statements of Mcuano Area School District as of and for the year ended June 30th, 2024, including its various funds and account groups. Any adjustments required by the auditors for the purpose of forming an opinion on the general purpose financial statements taken as a whole have been or will be discussed
047with the district and if necessary recorded in the district's accounting records. The audit is scheduled to be completed in November. A summary of the district's unodudited receipts and expenditures are presented in the proposed 2025 2026 budget included in this document. The accounts are presented in an outline form. Additional details regarding the district's budgeted receipts and expenditures are available from the director of business services. In addition, copies of the audit report will be on file in the school district office and may be examined by any elector of the district. Thank you. >> Thanks, Jake. Uh let's go to 8B, superintendent report. >> Thank you. Uh the Mcuano Area School District continues to operate in a highly effective manner, attaining high academic achievement, providing excellent programs for our students while maintaining fiscal responsibility to our communities. Our
048district ranks in the top 10% of all K12 public school districts in Wisconsin. We have the highest third grade reading scores among Waaw County school districts. Two of our schools have been rec recognized nationally as blue ribbon schools and one nationally recognized as a green ribbon school. All schools in the district meet or exceed expectations on the Department of Public Instruction school report cards. Students at MHS continue to excel in the classroom, in our career and technical education programs, in the performing arts, and in athletics. Our comprehensive programming meets the current needs of our students while preparing them for their future endeavors. In November of 24, the community supported the $89.1 million Parkview Middle School project. Construction on this project will begin in September of 25, so in a few weeks. and will be and
049will be completed by September of 2027. Through this process, our district received an upgraded bond rating by standards and poor to double A+, the highest rating among K12 public schools in Wisconsin. In addition to our school performance and facilities discussion, the Maguano Area School District strives to meet the needs of our community through our CTE programs. We are developing the next generation of workers and leaders in our community. We are maintaining strong values maintaining the strong values of our community and our day-to-day operations as a district and we will continue to do so in the future. Respectfully submitted by me. >> Thank you, Dr. Cook. Uh board president's report, Dale. >> Thank you, Craig. Um on behalf of the board, I just like to say we're very happy and excited of all the groundwork that's
050been laid out over the last two years. So we're really looking for an exciting future. Um, we've implemented a lot of leadership training, a lot of accountability that wasn't here before. We aligned all of our schools to district goals. We added classroom time. Uh, we discipline policies and behavior expectations for the district and in the classroom. Um, we started staff evaluations, exit interviews, state interviews. None of these things were really done in the past. So, when I talk about the groundwork, we really did have to start at the groundwork and start over. Uh we um Dr. Cook started parent teacher committees. Uh we have Rachel updated all of our handbooks that were outdated. We feel we are more transparent in our communication and we're really really excited for our new middle school. It's going to
051be we're going to be breaking ground in September. So, thank you. Uh, next up is the uh postretirement trust fund report. >> All right. So, anytime a school district has a trust fund, it's incumbent upon us at the annual meeting to report to the community uh what this fund is, how it's been used, and is it performing up to expectations? Are we are we doing what we said we were going to do with the money? And I am pr proud to present that we are. If if everybody who has a packet here went to page 30 and 31, uh you can see that there's two uh two pages. On page 30, um we have uh $4.7 million that was present in this account as of July 1st, 2024. And then if you go along that
052right hand side towards the middle there at the end of the school year on 6:30, 2025, there was $4.4 million remaining. Again, we're fully funded there. Those dollars are set aside, reserved and earmarked and untouchable except for the only thing which it can do is to pay for teacher uh compensation packages uh that we provide to them should they work for us for uh 20 years. So it's really a retentionary tool. Um and those dollars are accounted for as you can see on that page. If you flip that and go to page 31, um we have a $500 match. So, we have a 403b uh option which allows for employees of our school district to defer some of their funding uh and uh for their retirement needs. And for our teachers, uh those who set
053up to $500 aside, we match that $500. Um as you can see, there was $925,000 in this account on July 1st of last year. And if you come towards about the middle of the page on the right hand side, there was 21,000 left. School board took action to say we're going to turn this from a retirement benefit into an active benefit. So rather than waiting um till the end of your career, we have a five-year vesting schedule that once you're with us for five years, uh we're no longer going to hold this money. We are going to put this into your hands to have and to hold. So we transferred and put this money into the teachers hands which meets what this handbook always said it was that after you're with us for five years
054this money is yours. So we did what we should have done probably a while ago but that explains why there's less money in that fund 7 that portion of the fund 73 account. >> Thank you Tom. Uh community service fund report >> like uh what we just did there. If there's a community service fund 80 tax levy we have to report to the electors. Here's what we did with the tax levy that was issued. Some school districts will use their community service fund for really grand um recreation projects, ice rinks, um you name it, pickle ball courts. Um we have a very small fund 80 tax levy which again it pays for the two school resource officers in and a self-sustaining community education program which ultimately is uh no cost to the citizens. uh the
055cost really for that tax levy is solely for school security purposes. So that's the report there. >> Thank you Tom. Um action items >> setting of district levy. >> Okay. So this is the time when we look to the electors at the school district to let us know do you support what we presented earlier here in the uh annual in the budget hearing here. So I'm not sure why we do it this way but this is just kind of the way that happens. If you look on page seven, we're looking for a resolution levying a tax for the district's fund capital expansion fund. We need your permission to move forward here. So, we're looking for somebody to make a uh the resolution that says be it resolved that a tax in the amount of $800,000
056be levied with the 2526 school year to be deposited in the capital expansion fund to be used solely for the purpose of maintaining Muano area school district facilities. We can do this by a show of hands or a written ballot if requested by anybody. >> So I don't want >> Do we have a >> Yeah. Go ahead. >> Motion >> your name again. Heather. Thank you. We have a motion from Heather. Thank you, Deb. We have a second and a third. And a third. Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Uh uh do we have any discussion? Is there any discussion here? >> Anybody has any questions? >> Yeah. Any discussion? Uh a show of hands, please. If you're in favor of this motion, eight. So we have 9 10 11 12 13
05714. All 14. Do we have 14 folks here? I think uh Heather came in after you may have may have counted. I think regardless it is unanimous. >> Motion passed. >> 13 or 14. >> Laura would let us know what you think on the total vote thing. Thank you. >> We can hold off Laura until you're ready. >> Um resolution authorizing operational debt service and community service tax levy. >> So, Yep. Sure. The other tax levies then uh following what we just passed there um says be it resolved that a tax in the amount of 33 uh,898,417 be levied on all property real and personal which is taxable under Wisconsin state laws within the Mcuano Area School District counties of Walka and Walworth state of Wisconsin for the purpose of financing the operation of the
058public schools of the school district for the year 2526 pursuant to the budget. for this year as presented at to the annual meeting. So u again the tax levy uh information the school board on or before November 1st has the duty to vote on a tax sufficient to operate and maintain the school district if the annual meeting fails to do so. Further, if the annual meeting votes on a tax that violates state statutory revenue uh statutory revenue limits, the school board must lower the tax to bring it into compliance with the revenue limits which is in section uh state statutes 120. So this is the time for the electors to show support or lack thereof of the tax levy that we discussed earlier. the final tax levy. Ultimately, responsibility is with the board, but this
059is your the school board's chance to take the temperature on how the community supports or doesn't support what we discussed tonight. >> So, we need a motion. >> Yes. >> On the resolution authorizing operational debt service and community service tax levy. Do we have a motion? Thank you. Do we have a second, Deb? Thank you. Any discussion? I just want to make it clear this has this doesn't have anything to do with this tax levy with the middle school. >> Correct. We do not begin to levy the additional tax dollars until next year 25, excuse me, 26 27. Next year's tax question is going to come up. So you bet to ask. >> Yes. Yep. >> Yes. >> Any other discussion? So, by a show of hands, >> we have six out there. Seven, eight,
060nine, 10, 11, 12, 13. Yep. >> Sorry. We have 13. Yep. 130. >> Motion carries. Thank you. Number 10, board salaries. Um, it's up to the citizens voting at the annual meeting to determine what board salaries would be for 2526. Currently board salaries are 3500 with the board presid president president receiving additional 1,000. Note this amount was established in 2021. Motion is needed in order to set the board salary amounts for 2526. >> For your information I'll just add to that if you don't mind. >> Please go down. >> Jeremy verts. Um page 32 has other walkshaw county school board salaries that are listed there. So, for comparison purposes, if you want to take a look at where they're at, as a resident of the school district who I send my two sons here, what
061I can easily say is that this is full-time work for part-time pay. Um, no matter the amount that's established here to pay board members, it's it's uh it's 10 cents an hour if you're lucky. I I I appreciate the investment that you all make into making the school district uh what it is today, >> but clearly we're not going to pay you enough for your time. >> Well, and and uh I would like to I would like to keep them the same. That's my opinion. Anybody else want to jump in? I know it makes you look like a schmuck right now if you say you want to up it, but I think the same is keeping the same is fair. I agree. Anybody else, Jason? >> I'd like to make that motion. Do we have
062a second? Deb, no increase. You want just want a second to keep it the same? We have a second from Deb. Thank you. Any discussion, Deb? >> No. that. So, a very small sliver of our school district um the village of Maguano overlaps and straddles as you head down on Highway 83 south ever so slightly. So, if you look on our map there, we're pretty much have a flat line on our southern boundary with a little pink area that kind of pokes out down and that little area belongs in Walworth County. By and large, we are a walkshot county school district. We just Yeah, we could compare to Milwaukee County for some purposes. uh we could compare to Walworth County for some purposes. I just for the most part our comparable neighbors are Walkshaw County
063School Districts even though we have a little bit of land that's outside the county. Little funny bit of information for you Deb. There's a house in the orchard. There's a house it's divided in half. Half it's in Worth. Half it's in the village of Mcuano. >> That's your house. >> Oh. Oh, okay. Got it. So, we have a motion and a second. Is that correct? Yeah. And a school board salary staying the same for 2526. All in favor, show a hand, please. Motion carries. Thank you. Unfinished business. >> New business. >> Uh, new business, please. Okay. All right. So, the the uh annual meeting has certain powers that doesn't solely rest with the school board. It resides with the electors of the school district. Um should the school board ever have uh tangible property that
064the school board deems is no longer necessary. We're looking for permission from the electors. Say, we have a um an old fleet of textbooks that we no longer need. Uh we'd like to perhaps sell those school those textbooks to another district that may make use of them. So, we're looking for permission um to get permission from the electors to sell uh tangible property. So, be it resolved that the the resolution would say be it resolved that the school board of the Muango Area School District is hereby authorized during the current school year to sell and dispose of any tangible personal property belonging to the school district that is deemed by the school board to be no longer needed for school purposes. I'll make that motion. >> We have a second. >> Second. Have a motion
065and second discussion. >> No, we could never sell a building without the electors giving us correct. Yep, Matt. >> If there's no seller, uh, no buyer, then a donation can take place. is more or less the same thing here. There there comes a certain point in time where we don't have enough storage to keep everything we've ever purchased. If we still had 1972 textbooks here when Craig was the second grader, I think we'd have too much stuff on our hands. So, there comes a point in time where we do need to to move on from certain things, sell them if no buyer donate. >> There is specific board policy that directs what to sell, when we sell, and how we sell. We have a motion and a second. Anybody else? Any other discussion? Uh, can
066I have a show of hands, please? >> All right. Thank you. >> All right. The next one then is a resolution to authorize the school board to set the date and time for the 2026 annual meeting. As I said earlier, by default, state law says it'll take place on the 3 Monday of July. Sometimes it helps us to uh establish a more flexible date to meet the needs. Sometimes we've done them um as early as July, sometimes in August like tonight. Sometimes we've done them in September. I know our neighbors to the uh east of us, they do their annual meeting and budget hearing the same night that they do their final tax levy in October. So school districts do it a variety of different ways. Sometimes we just time it up differently. So for
067this year, we delayed it to August so we could uh learn the state budget in July and present more factual information for everybody. So having that flexibility just lets us have a more informed budget hearing and annual meeting. So I'll make the motion to um authorize the school board to set the date and time. >> Second, >> 2026. >> We have a motion by Tom and a second by Jake. Any any further discussion? Uh can have a show of hands, please? Motion passed. Thank you. By default, it'll go to the third uh excuse 3rd or fourth Monday of July. >> It's one of those two. I pardon me. I don't know exactly which one. >> You said you had the wrong date on it. The 27th and you thought it was the 20th. >> That's
068the final in October when we do the final certification tax levy. That's coming up for this year. you and likely after board elections in April, we'll plan ahead to say when do we want to have the annual meeting. So that decision will take place in April. >> Heather, does that answer your question? Um, new business C resolution to authorize a school board to purchase student accident insurance. >> Okay. So the school board, not sure why, can't purchase this unilaterally. They need the approval of the electors. So there's times in our schools where kids bump heads. they by no negligence of the school district there's an accident that a student's um family's insurance would have to cover their needs. Some of our families don't have proper medical insurance should their kiddo get hurt while at school.
069Um with permission tonight would be able to purchase student accident insurance to help families out should something happen to their kiddo. Again, that is of no fault of the school district, but we can help families then bridge any problems that may come their way financially speaking. I move that we pass and authorize the school board to purchase student accident insurance. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion by a show of hands, please? Motion carried. Thank you. All right. Then the final uh piece of new business is a resolution to authorize the school board to acquire real estate through purchase or con uh condemnation. So, be it resolved that the school board of the Muang McGuano Area School District is granted the authority of the electorate to acquire real estate through the purchase uh
070or uh or condemnation. Um why we are asking for this is that a number of years ago a private property was donated to us in the pheasant run subdivision. The intent of the donation was to allow our skilled trade students to use that property to build uh through a a learning experience to build a house which we would then sell, take the proceeds from the sale and pick a different property and just kind of rinse and repeat over and over allows our kids to learn how to really build build something of significance and give them real life value. We sold that property for approximately $120,000. those dollars are reserved and earmarked to buy a piece of property that's closer to the high school so our kids don't have to spend so much time commuting um
071there and back each day. So um really the intent there is to say, hey, can we have the flexibility should we find a property that we want to purchase that we can that we can do that well without having to call a special meeting of the electors. >> Do we have a motion? >> I'll make that motion, >> Tom. Uh do we have a second? Second. >> Thank you, Jake. We have a motion to second. Any discussion, Heather? >> Sure. So this is just for permission for the coming 25 26 school year. Um I I completely understand where you're coming from, right? Like you're grant you're granting broad powers. Sure. Sure. Yeah. I think that we can go ahead and and um so how this is where >> maybe you want to have the um
072>> this is where I met >> the lawyer the our our guys at Joel and those guys review that. Well, it would be I mean for the purposes of the meeting I mean it is it does carry annually and we could make a somebody could move to amend the motion and with the amendment it could say um for educational purposes or for the 20 you know for educational purposes during the 2526 school year. I I can't really honestly think of another situation at the current time where we would be looking to purchase. >> Um once upon a time we were looking for a place to put our middle school, but we kept it where it is after we did an exhaustive search. I can't think of anything that would put us in the land buying
073business except for this. So I think it's perfectly good to do that. >> So do you want to make an amendment, Heather, to this or Do we need another mo motion then? A motion for this? >> Yeah, we would have to. Okay, >> we would have to I so I I will move to amend the motion to include uh so to state be it resolved that the school board of the Muano area school district is granted the authority of the electorate to acquire real estate through purchaser condemnation for the purposes of hands-on learning experiences for students that okay and then we would have to vote then on the amended so there has to be a motion to approve the amendment And then we would then go forward and do a go back to the vote
074for the motion uh to pass this resolution. >> Yeah. >> So we need a a motion. >> Go ahead, Joe. >> Yeah. Is there a motion to to approve the amendment to the motion? >> I'll make I'll make a motion to approve. >> I'll second. >> So we have a motion to approve and a second to approve. Now we would need to vote on that. >> Okay. All in favor of the show of hands to approve the >> amendment >> carries. Thank you. >> And now we have to vote on the resolution >> and the new wording for the resolution >> which we just amended. But we need a motion first. Correct. >> Correct. >> There is a motion. There is a motion. >> Oh, there is a motion and a second. >> Y we
075have discussion. >> Vote on the discussion vote. Y >> see normally these meetings are board. We just made it. We just livened it up. Good work, guys. >> So, is there is there discussion then on the uh amended motion? >> Uh uh with a show of hands. >> Need a motion to approve or we would approve vote to >> carries. Thank you. >> Thank you everybody. >> Thank you. >> Um I believe that's I believe we adjournment a voice vote to adjurnn. Is that correct? >> Correct. Mike, >> is it everyone? >> Oh, it's everyone. >> Yes. >> Oh. Um, do we have a ad ajournment? >> I. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> Motion carries. Thank you. >> Does anybody need a little break before we start the meeting?
076>> Okay, we'll take a two-minut break. Six years, Deb. Congrats. Right. Calling this meeting to order. Monday, August 18th at 8:09 p.m. Um, Mike Guch, could you do the roll call, please? >> Jason Bennett, >> here. >> Crosby Bugenhagen, >> she's excused. >> Mike Guch, I'm here. Jake Heliganthal, >> here. >> James Olsen, >> he's excused. Dale Porter, >> here. Eric Schwarz, >> he's excused. Carolyn Simon, >> she's excused. Craig Berts >> here. This is an open meeting and has been posted. Please join me for the pledge of >> allegiance. Thanks. We're going to go down to consent agenda. We're looking for the approval of the committee of the whole meeting minutes uh of August 11th, 2025 and approval of vouchers and receipts. Are there any questions or comments? Hearing none. That is approved by
077consent. Moving down to personnel topics, director's report. Oh, okay. Then we are moving down to student learning topics, director's report. Okay. At the committee of the whole meeting, I had threeformational items. The first was an update on our third through fifth grade ELA pilot. We will be piloting two different resources this year. Parents of students in the pilot classrooms will be getting information regarding the pilot this week. Um, and then we will be holding a community viewing night. We will obviously monitor that throughout the year and we will keep the board updated on our progress. The next item was just a quick update on our August professional development. We have teachers coming back into the building and other staff next week. We have a variety of professional development activities that will be occurring with our
078district-wide kickoff happening on Tuesday. And then finally, I gave a presentation on the elementary progress reporting work that we've been doing throughout the year. Um, we did a review of our current practices. We collected feedback from teachers and parents and um have made some recommendations for moving forward. So we will be starting to put those recommendations into place and then um we'll keep the board updated on our progress. Any questions? >> I don't see any. Thank you. >> Down to student service topics. I just had a presentation or actually just a memo from the committee of the whole just talking about the AODA grant uh that we were awarded uh for $50,000. Um so I will keep you posted as we bring somebody in uh for approval and next steps. >> Awesome. Thank you. >>
079Tom, do you have anything? >> Yeah, just a couple things. uh we talked about the student uh bus discipline uh plans we have in place and then we also talked about the 2425 budget amendment which is an action item but we need at least six members here to approve that so we'll just skip that when the time comes and table it till September >> on which one was that oh >> yeah 2425 yep yep we need at least six members okay >> okay thank you moving on to action items hires retirements and resation All right. So, we have one contract that was offered to John Leonard and he is being offered a limited term contract for a social studies position at Mcuano High School. And some of you might remember John. He was with us
080last year as well and is coming back. Help us out again. >> Make a motion to approve. >> Second. >> We have a motion, a second. Any questions or comments? Hear none. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Those opposed say no. Motion carries. Moving on to number two, open enrollment policy revisions. >> So, back in July, uh we presented some uh revisions to our open enrollment policy um to address some current needs in the district. Um we had that policy on the uh July agenda. Uh and we're bringing it back for approval this evening. Notably in it, it's going to talk about how we uh focus on space allocation in uh in the uh under open enrollment. Um how we are going to handle student discipline under open enrollment. How we're going
081to handle habitual truency under open enrollment uh in an effort to make sure that our learning environments are maximized for all of our students. >> Looking for a motion. I'll make a motion. Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Any questions or comments about the open enroll open enrollment policy revisions? >> I have a question, >> Mike. >> Um, I don't know if you have it up and you're looking at it, but section E of 3756, whatever 001 tag >> determination. >> Yes. >> Yep. >> Okay. in the red the the two sentence paragraph the habitual truency determination shall be made on the sole base basis of enrollment in the non resident district and then it says open enrollment may not be denied based on the students truth truency from any other district
082can you just explain that to me like I'm a kid because I read it like five times and I don't understand that >> so if you're a habitual truent in the Mcuano school district, we will determine that you're a habitual truent and we will send you out. However, we cannot deny you based off of your enrollment in your resident district. So, if you are a resident of the Palmyra Eagle School District, we'll use that and you are a habitual truent in the Palmyra Eagle School District. We can't deny your open enrollment application based off of your attendance in your prior district. However, we can do that if you are a student in our district. >> Okay. So, I'm just reading again. Uh, habitual truency determination shall be made on the sole basis of enrollment in
083the non-resident district. >> Correct. So, if you open enroll in, we are your non-resident district and we will make the habitual truent determination as a school district. Okay. It just seemed very wordy and I was reading it as they come in from a district different district and we can use their attendance but then they get here and we can't. >> So we can't use their prior districts in in attendance. So if a student if my child if I wanted to enroll my child in the uh Mosquo Norway school district and they were a truent here and this policy were in place there they can't deny based off of truency in this district. However, if my child goes to the mosquito Norway school district they had this policy in place they could send my student back
084to Maguano based off of their attendance and their truency. Okay. I guess the lawyers and you guys made this wording the way it is and I still really don't >> this is all >> I know what you're meaning to say, but that's not what it looks like to me. But I'll take your word for it. >> This is statutory language to make sure that this policy accomplishes what we needed to accomplish. >> Thanks for trying. Any other questions or comments? Okay. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Those opposed say no. Motion carries. Moving on to controversial issues in the classroom. >> Uh so there were some questions that came up just about making sure that this policy accomplishes what we need it to accomplish. So you can see on page one of
085the policy highlighted in green. Um, in the discussion of any controversial issue in the classroom in the course of professional duties, district staff may not initiate discussions of a controversial issue that is not already included in the curriculum or otherwise approved by the building principal. Nor may district staff express his or her personal opinion under such circumstances. District staff are prohibited from displaying political or controversial flag, signs, clothing, access, accessories, or similar materials in the classroom or other student areas unless related to a course of study or certain instructional material as it has been permitted by policy. This does not include the US flag, the Wisconsin flag, the flag of the municipality, or the school flag um in which the school is located. Controversial issues may not be initiated by a source outside of the
086school unless prior approval. You can see where that language uh that language is in the policy. We also have the language um failure of district staff to adhere to the provisions of this policy may result in discipline up to and including termination. I apologize that that is not highlighted in green. Looking for a motion, please. I'll make a motion. I'll second motion to You're going to make a motion to approve >> to approve. Sorry. I make a motion to approve the policy >> and I'll second. >> Sorry. Thank you for clarifying. Are there any questions or comments? >> Yes, I got one >> Mike. >> So, and and it does talk about in the classroom. Would this prevent I know they have days when there are recruiters from different branches of service and I don't
087know if they show up with like the Marine flag or the Air Force flag when they set up shop. Would this preclude them from doing that? >> It would not. That's part of the approved presentation. So, okay. So, like for instance, just for example, if we have a social studies class where um part of the curriculum is discussing a current issue, right? I mean, if it's controversial, just you know, putting it out there, right? what's controversial to me might not be controversial to you and vice versa. Right? So, if we have something within the course of study or something within the course of the presentation that somebody could perceive as long as the building principal says yes, this fits fits with the course of study, we can allow this for this purpose, then we wouldn't
088have a problem. And the flag for the for the uh recruiter would would certainly fall within that. >> Thank you. Any other questions or comments? All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Those opposed say no. We moved down to co-curricular handbook. >> So we came together, our team came together again last week and final edits were made to the co-curricular and activities handbook. And so we're just looking to put this into place for the 2526 school year. >> Make a motion to approve the co-curricular handbook. >> Second. We have a motion, a second. Any questions or comments, Mike? >> Not on this one. We're all good. Thanks. Thank. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Those opposed say no. >> Motion carries. Move on to staff handbook revisions. >> All
089right. So, same thing. Uh just looking to uh get an approval of the revisions to the support and professional staff handbooks. And again, these were really just revisions made based on the updated software that we're using. We switched to Skyward instead of um AIO for absence management. So very technical revisions but necessary ones. >> Like to make a motion to approve the revisions to the staff handbook. >> Second. We have a motion and a second to approve the staff handbook revisions. Any questions or comments? >> Hearing none. All those in favor say I. >> I. Okay. Those opposed say no. Motion carries. Number six is moving. We're moving that to next month. >> Mr. Border, if we could um because we've talked about this now over a couple of meetings, would the board be okay
090if we had that as an action item um on uh the cow in September? Would there be objection to that? I know you can't >> I do not have any objection. Anybody else have any exception? >> No objection. >> Okay. We'll put it on then for action item on the call. >> Okay. Thank you. Moving on to expulsion resolution. >> So, uh two things are included. First is the just the policy on suspension and expulsion. Just you know any disciplinary uh proceeding including expulsion uh is grounded in policy. It's grounded in statute. Uh as we talked about at the uh committee of the whole proposing that we uh implement an expulsion resolution that would allow us to do expulsions by a panel of three school board members. uh if we need to use this uh
091for instances of major discipline as it pertains to drugs to alcohol whatever it might be for repeated refusal uh or in the instance where we have a young child a younger student uh whose behavior is such that we would need to move forward for expulsion we want to be a little bit more nimble uh than trying to convene nine members of a school board. So, uh, if we do this, just as a reminder to the board and the community, uh, three panels, a three member panel could hold the hearing, make a recommendation within 30 days, then the whole board then has to vote on that. And so, we would have it agendaized both as uh uh a consent agenda item uh for the whole board and we would also have it listed for close session
092for the whole board and whatever the board wanted to do that evening. Uh, they could do. uh if they wanted to hear the details of the expulsion, we would do that in close session. If the whole board supports the panel, um then we would uh we would uh take action on it on the consent. I'll make a motion to approve. >> Second. We have a motion in a second. Any questions or comments? So, I have a question. Um so, do we make this committ ahead of time or are we just going to try to find three board members that are available? >> So, we we we could break the year up into almost trimesters like a September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May, and then kind of riding it out into June. Um,
093board president has the authority to to designate those. Um, it's important to note if uh Mike, Craig, and Dale are a panel and Mike is not available, Jake could certainly come in. we would just have to find the person for their availability. So there's flexibility within that panel >> and it was a minimum of three, correct? >> A minimum of three. I do encourage consistency though with it having used this this type of resolution in the past. Uh consistent three member panels um are the best way to do it. We need to notify the parent for instance that there will be three members of the board present to hear this. If suddenly five people show up, you know, we're putting the parent and the child in a different position. Then >> my only concern is
094if you look at the last six weeks um of getting those three people to the meeting. >> Yep. We will have the flex. So it really can be anybody, but it also is helpful just for us, you know. So when we schedule it uh for Christine, Laura, uh Gina, whoever would be scheduling it, you know, if they know my first three people to call in September are Dale, Craig, and Mike, they can call them. If Mike's not available, we can go to Jason. Um you know, having those designated is helpful. >> Availability in the summer probably isn't the best comparison either, though. >> And again, we haven't had a expulsion hearing in two years, so it's not like it happens monthly. Just thinking out loud. All right. Any other questions or comments? All those in
095favor say I. >> I. I. >> I. >> Those opposed say no. Motion carries. Unfinished business. >> Yeah. So, just sit here with a tremendous amount of gratitude. And it's also surprising that we are uh this is the last school board meeting of the summer. Um new staff uh come in this week. um all staff come in next week and uh you know it definitely feels like we have transitioned into that school year up and running uh type feeling. Uh we've had just outstanding work done this summer. I want to thank Andy Wegner and his team, Kelly and her team uh for all the summer work that they did. Uh you can see the projects that are ongoing. Um, you know, Andy, you know, in coordinating those projects, um, has, you know, had to navigate
096weather, the availability of contractors, but as a result of that, the Clarin roof is is well underway. Um, almost it's nearing completion. Uh, we've got a new scoreboard at the high school. We've got uh the track that's gone in. We've got an elevator repair that's happening at Prairie View. He's just done a fantastic job. Kelly has the switches up and running. um you know at the end of the day we don't you take your technology for granted and she and her team have just done an outstanding job there. Um our MASD just the office staff uh at the district office uh their availability their collaboration their professionalism and all they've done to get new teachers on on boarded set up with benefits and payroll um you know being responsive to the community over the course
097of the summer and making sure that our staff are taken care of and prepared for for the beginning of the year. uh Alicia up in front and all the ordering that she had to do going into summer school, getting, you know, curricular materials ready to go. It's it's it's just been outstanding. Um we had unbelievable level of participation from our staff this summer. Uh be it from a coaching or an advising standpoint, those that came in for professional development, served on committees, taught summer school, wrote curriculum, um you know, there is the the myth that schools shut down in the summer. It does transition to a different type of work. Uh but our teachers have just been incredibly incredibly uh uh busy over the course of the summer. And then one reminder on September 4th
098at 8:30 in the morning uh we will be doing the groundbreaking uh for the Park View uh project. Um so I I did send a a reminder or invite to the board. Uh we also are going to be inviting um you know municipal representatives from the municipalities that we serve. Uh people who have helped out with this project along the way. uh did reach out to Sean McNelte um and some past school board members who were around when the vote was taken uh for this. Um and then those who were just actively engaged as as we uh as we worked to get that project passed. Um you know, that'll be a big step for us when the shovels go into the ground. Uh but what we're really looking forward to is two years later when
099we cut that ribbon and said the school is officially open. So thank the board members, thank the community for supporting uh that work. Um, we are definitely, you know, gearing up and getting ready to build up. >> All right. Thank you. Just want to reiterate what I said before. Um, two years of making progress, laying out the groundwork, looking forward to some more positive results. >> Yes, I have had uh someone reach out to me and say that they really like the new marketing um effort that we're making. I thought that was pretty neat. I wasn't expecting it. I'm not on Facebook, but apparently on Facebook it's pretty sharp and they said it's very professional. There you have it. >> Thank you. We are looking for a motion to adjurnn. I'll make a motion to
100adjurnn. >> Second. >> A roll call vote, please. >> Jason, >> yes. >> Uh Jake, >> yes. >> Myself, yes. Dale, >> yes. Craig, this