001they perceive have been taken. I'm just so exciting to hear not just the the leadership that's going on at the school, but also the awards that have been won and also the programs that are being commandeered and also future opportunities. It's a pretty pretty exciting thing to see what the future holds forms. We always in grow and improve at PBMS. So, any other questions, comments? All right. Thank you. Keep up the great work. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Up next, we have citizens comments. Do we have any? No. No citizens comments. Mr. Porter, we do have a donation to recognize. That's right. Um, clear in donation. Thank you. So, um, Village Pumper 2, uh, donated $500, uh, to, um, Mobile's 2025 education program elementary school. Want to acknowledge them at this meeting. Mrs. Hart
002did send them a thank you uh, letter uh, for their gracious donation. Thank you for the donation. Um, I'm assuming Park View or Yeah, Park View. They did it all in one because it's listed on your twice. They covered it all in one. Okay, perfect. Up next, Mcuano High School. Good evening. So, I brought three three students with me today from our student government. Uh they're going to introduce themselves to start. I'm Riley Jes. I'm Dalia Welsh. And I'm Evelyn Shaell. So, a little bit can you thanks a little bit little bit different than the park views. Um, we wanted to or I wanted to start and just address um a little bit regarding our school goals because they are a celebration for us. But I told the girls I would speak on this. Um
003uh so we are on a uh first drive at the high school uh to get to a composite score of 22. Uh and uh we have done a lot of work. Our teachers have done a lot of work. Um therefore our students have done a lot of work this year to help us get there. Um with continuing to concentrate on a guaranteed and viable curriculum, a lot of conversations about formative assessment. So, we're not waiting until we get to um what most people would call, you know, a unit test um or a sumitative to find out that students haven't learned um many more checks along the way. We're working on um definitely growing in our use of data in the building. Uh so, again, we're recognizing and able to intervene faster when a student is
004not understanding. Uh and then our work around collaborative work that the teachers do meeting weekly around uh our PLC's. Um, I am pleased to say, Ben said I can't give too much, but I'm pleased to say that uh I I think everyone will be happy with results that we're seeing from the ACT and the preACT um this year at the high school. So, we we believe the work is is going in the right direction. Uh and again, a lot of lot of work on our teachers and students on that part. And then finally, we're looking at uh parent communication. And this year, some of the things that we put into place, a weekly newsletter instead of a monthly newsletter to make sure that families felt communicated with, I put together a parent advisory group that
005meets once a week. Um, I'm sorry, once a month. Uh, and has been a great addition for us to get feedback and and communication that way. Uh, and then we really this year worked on positive contact uh, contacts with home student of the month. We have character awards. I had a staff member recently who has two children at our high school who said their ch her children unfortunately don't always love school um who wanted to let me know. She said, "You might think that those contacts you have put in place maybe don't mean anything." She said both of her children uh received a character award which the the teachers can randomly give their certificates that they give this year and it made the world of a difference in them feeling connected to an adult in
006the building feeling like somebody noticed them um and really encouraged us to continue those. So, okay. So, I'm going to talk about AP exams. I am in three myself and By the looks of the data, they um the total AP students and number of exams have increased greatly um since 2021 and the total AP students in 2025 was 517 and number of exams was 936, meaning a lot of students were taking multiple exams this year, which is really good because AP exams um greatly prepare us for the future um college courses. And you can also receive college credit from them depending on the score you get which is very helpful and um honestly improves confidence like knowing what to expect in future years and yeah so I'm going to talk about some of the music
007program um accomplishments recently. So, like Parker, you said um the high school also performed at Solen Ensemble and I think we had 50 um some students that went to state 100 students that went to state this year and then seven of those students got exemplary awards and 12 of them got nominated. So, an exemplary award is a award that is given to a very few number of students and it's like the best performances in southeastern Wisconsin and it's not common at all for kids to get them and let them get nominated. So for us to have seven awards in um given and 12 nominations was probably the biggest number the music department has seen um and then three of those were in choir, one was in orchestra and three were in band. And then those
008students were recognized individually in classes um for that. And then the Jerry awards are for theater um and the those are like the outstanding musical awards. So those are statewide awards that are given to students for um their theater performances. So, three of them were given for lead performance, one was for a supporting performance, and then two were for outstanding youth. Um, and those are from musical direction, choreography, lighting, costume design, sound design. Um, and then on June 8, 2025, they're going to do a performance at the Overture Center in Madison. Um, and then the Jerry's are a big deal as well. And then this is also a number that, um, having that many awards is not a number that the music department usually sees. On May 2nd, we had a spring pep assembly uh
009where our spring sports teams were recognized. We played games such as basketball with impaired vision goggles and tugof-war and teacher versus student dodgeball. They announced the prom court. And this spring cup assembly really helped us see a school big school spirit boost. And before the assembly, we had a lesson plan on behaviors and we really saw a great increase of better behaviors from our homecoming pep assembly. And then this is the second year in a row that um some students led a clothing drive. So, how this clothing drive worked is the week before they had students and families donate um unused clothing, purses, shoes, or not unused, but like clothes that they don't use anymore to donate. And then what happened was during our lunch hour, those clothes were put on clothing racks and they
010were sold for um a low dollar amount. And then students could shop during their lunch hour um and buy the clothes that, you know, someone else may not have wanted but they wanted. And then all of those proceeds went to Save the Children, which is a organization that helps um like kind of third world countries and struggling countries with um donations. Um last year the proceeds went to Yemen. Um and then this year they're still kind of deciding they donated to Save the Children in total for that organization decide where what countries needed the most. This is 100% student run, though they do work a lot with admin and custodial staff on getting the tables, the clothing racks, and then this is so far made about $2,000. So about $1,000 a year it's made for
011them to donate to the Save the Children. And then this was originally um started through a global scholar project. This is a club that students are participating in that help them um kind of in start students with a global international career. So international relations or language career um and that's part of their project and then they get certif a certification at the end of the their time at the Mcuano High School saying that they are a global scholar. Um, we got a new schedule this school year and there are 63 minute class periods which has worked tremendously well for learning and student attention spans because you know we don't have long ones of those. But um it's nice because we have a variation of days per week and we meet four or three to four
012times a week depending on what letter um day we start on. And it's been really nice because there has been clear communication on what day it is to avoid confusion and it has been really helpful. It's it's nice to have um a different schedule each week because then classes get mixed and you don't get as bored with the same classes over and over per day. So, and then um this month we had a Rotary teacher of the month u Mrs. Sarah Wright and she's a speech language uh pathologist and she's had 20 plus years at MHS. So this award kind of just represented the great work that we have in the staff going on at MHS and it was a big honor for Mrs. Wright and the Mcuano community. I'll end it with our graduation
013that's coming up very soon, June 8th, uh 2025 at 2 o'clock in our West gym. Um we uh added something new this year to graduation. and I decided that most people don't want to hear their principal drone on um about the great accomplishments of the class or speak to the class. And so we brought in a tradition that I've seen work well uh in many many other schools and that is that our senior class voted on a teacher that they want um to give about a five minute speech to them and leave them with some knowledge. Uh this year's senior class voted Mrs. Margie Canfield, which is super fitting given the fact that she has been at Aquano High School since 1978. and will be retiring this year. And so the class decided to honor
014her and ask her to speak at graduation. Um so we'll do that every year. A a teacher voted on to speak at graduation. And then also knew this year we had parents reach out and say, "Can we get some of those yard signs um and celebrate our students throughout the entire community like we've seen other districts do?" So there's a picture in the upper right hand corner of the yard signs um that we brought in. Um and the company gave a really nice kickback to the building for each that was um was bought too. So we'll use that for things like teacher conference dinners and teacher appreciation week in the future questions at all any questions. What grade are you girls then? Are you seniors? I'm a junior. I'm a freshman and I'm a sophomore.
015Awesome. Well, very well done. You're very well spoken. So, did you get to perform tonight? Yeah, we performed it. We performed a song. Yeah. Awesome. Thank you for your dedication. So, sorry the weather put a damper on it for you Friday, but I'm glad you made it here. So, thank you. Want to thank Stephanie Blue, too. Um, talking about the high school, and I'll use her word, vibe of the school is totally different walking into this year versus previous years. And I just want to say thank you for all the hard work and the direction you're taking the school. I think that's all we have. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Consent agenda. We're looking for the approval of the committee of the whole meeting minutes of May 12th, 2025 and approval and approval of
016vouchers and receipts. Any questions or comments? None. That is approved by consent. Moving on to policies. Uh yep. So carrying forward the batch of policies that we had last week at the committee of the whole. These will be on June as we work towards um action on them. If there are any questions from the board, please ask them during the meeting or don't hesitate to reach out to me. Happy to provide more information update for not here to take action on these. Any questions on those me? Is there any update on the surveys being made public? We are working on that. We're still working on figuring out which surveys we give and then what copyrights are associated with those. Any other questions or comments? All right. Thank you. Up next, we have 8600 transportation. Um
017I asked Mr. Buck Holtz to please join us um in maybe helping us answer questions or guidance. I know he no longer works for the bus company, but he has many years of being involved with the bus company and he might be able to help guide us. Um, we put this on the agenda because there have been numerous complaints throughout the whole year on behavior issues on the bus. Caroline, could Katrina come up too? Anyone mind? Just just we have joined questions. Thank you both for coming. So for those of you who don't know me, I am Katrina K. I am Helen's I guess replacement. Yeah. So I am now the Dowman transport for you guys in the Awesome. Nice to meet you. So, I know I had these conversations with Allan before and before
018I guess the bus drivers used to have the authority to write up to students. Yes. When we um became part of Delman Transport, the discipline policy changed considerably to where went from a bus driver having immediate consequences um to me issuing the suspensions, you know, gets kicked off the bus kind of thing. And then that was changed to um school administrators now have the sole authority for warnings uh days off the bus up to I think five days and if there were anything else further than that it would go to Tom who who's been a very great champion for bus drivers. He's always been there when it was u came down to if there was a safety issue with a student he would you know suspend that kid for up to 30 days I think
019it was that's the max. Yes. And so that policy has changed, you know, like I said, from immediate consequence from the driver to now it would come to the office. I would then make first contact with the parent. Um, a warning, typically a warning kind of thing. And if I wanted a suspension, I'd have to go through the building principal to say, "Hey, I think, you know, we need a day off two, three days kind of thing." And that administrator would make the actual decision whether that there would be a suspension or not. Um, like some of the complaints that I've been getting this year is inappropriate um, language. I know I personally my daughter came in asked what the dword was. So instead of calling the school, I followed the bus, found out where
020the kid lived, knocked on the door, and it's probably about two months ago. And once I did that, um, my daughter said that kid is the quietest kid on the bus. parent took care of it, but not everybody has time to do what I was doing. Um, and we heard stories of food being thrown at bus drivers, kids just kind of out of control, a lot of bullying going on. So, I would like us to put more teeth into consequences on the bus. I think that's the only way that this is going to stop. It's the only way we're going to stop the bullying and everything else that goes on on the bus. So, that's why I asked you here um asked like what your recommendations would be. I think what frustrates a lot of
021drivers is uh lack of feedback sometimes as to what has been done with a student um from administrator to the office or you know whichever direction it would go. And it's I think hard for a lot of administrators. I think they all do a great job, but they also have to put out fires in their buildings every day and then you add on to it school bus discipline, hours of watching videos. Now the administrators don't do that. That would be out of the bus company office. Um so to collaborate a lot of that sometimes it would take a day or two to get video evidence of it. Um so there was you know by the time that's done the principal takes action doesn't come back to the driver. So the driver thinks maybe nothing was
022done. U another really frustrating part for bus drivers is all of your K through six students are in assigned seats that they're supposed to be. And if there was an issue with a student, the administrator would say, "Move the kid over here. Move them over there. Move them here." And we all know kids don't always get along with each other. That's fine. But at the same time, that's not an effective policy to move a student out of an assigned seat consistently three, four, five, six times before. Okay, now we're going to give him a day off the bus. So I would think that you know a faster progression to suspension would be helpful not only for your drivers who are frustrated every day because of you know some kids who are being naughty consistently and
023they're not removed from the bus. Now, what that suspension would look like as far as lengthwise, that would be something you'd have to figure, you know, you guys would have to work on. But in my opinion, a faster road to suspension would be helpful to not only bus driver, but your administrator who's in the building who has to deal with this also every day. Katrina, may I ask, how do the bus what's the expectation for the bus drivers to manage behavior on the bus? What do they do when a student is misbehaving? What's the expectation? Okay. So, um if they have a student that misbehaves, if they can't handle it first thing in the bus, they do a write up. What's called a drivers are required to write students up. Right. Thank you. So, they
024write it up and then they bring it to the office and then that's when I contact the parent first and then I also contact courtesy, contact the principal if it's minor, you know, like the kid is jumping around or whatever. If it's violent, physical, then I contact the principal immediately. Um, I did look at the bus policy discipline procedures in here, and we do pretty much follow step one, step two. I have not gotten to three yet since I've taken over here, but we have had some discipline um, able to be suspended pretty well recently. those policies that you have in front of you there, they've been have they been in place for a long time. These are what I got off of the school district's transportation. So, they've been in place since I've been
025here, but that's Do you mind if I bring those up real quick? Yeah, please do. Okay. So, I'll just navigate here on our website. So, when we start off at our homepage underneath departments, you will find business services and bustransportation. So, when you click here, there's a variety of things uh parents can find. Um I'm going to click on bus disciplinary procedures, but just to quickly go through this. If somebody has a transportation concern, they can click this link and fill out that I feel my bus stop is unsafe or I have an issue with whatever they might have, we review those every September and October. Um if there's special arrangements or schedules that have required, uh we put everything that a parent might be looking for here. So if I go to the disciplinary
026procedures, uh the K6 and the 712 look very similar. So I'll just stay right here. Uh step one is a driver statement is issued and a bus driver issues a driver's statement. The bus company informs the parents uh of the statement via phone call and the bus driver can assign a seat and a seatmate as needed and they can have no more than three driver statements before going to the next step. Step two is a conduct report. So this is a little more severe in nature. The principal will receive the conduct report from Dowman. Uh principal will investigate the severity of the behavior and if the behavior is less severe in nature, the principal meets with the student and issues the discipline. And if the behavior is more severe in nature, the principal will meet
027with the student and inform parents of the outcome uh with a progressive discipline up to one, two or three days based on um severity. Once a conduct report is issued and a subsequent conduct report comes in, there's a suspension and a conference um where ultimately my the principal, the parents, the student and myself will gather uh we'll put a plan together, an improvement plan in and put that in place and a second suspension can be issued up to five days. And if a third conduct report comes in, then the same parties are going to gather and we can have a suspension up to 30 days um to figure out what the next step is there. Um, you know, you can see by the footnote there, we updated this in February of 2019 and it aligns
028with policy 8600. Um, that is our current practice. Katrina, how many bus referrals are you getting from your drivers on a daily basis, weekly basis, monthly, whatever is appropriate? Towards the end of the week, more than towards the beginning. um usually in the afternoons, but I would say roughly 15 a week that I'm getting across the board. Okay. Um so one challenge though with our drivers, with the bullying, with the bad words, they cannot hear very well. They can't hear the students. They can hear noise, but they can't hear specific. Like when I was on the bus today, my bus was silent and I had two boys sitting behind me, but with the windows being open now and the sound of the engine, I couldn't even understand their words right behind me. So, that's that's
029one of the issues um that the drivers are having a hard time dealing with. If they hear about the bullying, then they'll bring it up and then we're able to watch the videos immediately. um well immediately being within 24 hours uh and seeing what we see and then we contact the principles right away about whatever we hear or see. Um so most of our drivers are able just to see possible telltale signs. So a student facing backwards facial expressions. Um there's a new game now, you know, like raise your hand if and then they say something and then that usually turns nasty against the student, you know, who wants so and so off the bus or it just turns mean. So they've been learning to recognize those signs, but with actual words, um unless it's
030super loud or reported to them, that's where we are having a challenge. And so do students often report to the driver what's happening or do parents often reach out about what's happening? Yes, we get it from all directions. Um the parents do or the students do approach the drivers then the drivers bring it up and the parents either contact me if it's I don't know if they get the number or feel comfortable enough but most of the time I get it a student tells a teacher the teacher tells the principal the principal tells us or the parent tells the principal who then tells us and like I said we look at all the videos and then give it back to the principal just One quick question. I mean Tom Katrina, what's our daily wrership approximately?
031Most of our buses are pretty decently filled. Uh about probably on average I would say 50. You know, we have more. Some are in the upper 60s and then some probably in the 30s 40s. So I would guess 50. We have 34 68 routes. So 50 times So about 3,000 kids a day. 3,400 per well that would be yeah mornings and afternoons. Thank you. So I just want to read this for all the parents who are watching. This is in our um in our board docs and you go to Bus Conduct. Parents are to be informed that the school bus transportation is considered at school for purposes of the school discipline when students are on the bus. the bus driver or designated the bus monitor is the sole authority on the bus while students are
032being transported. Um, I'm just saying personally, I know there are a couple things that were pretty serious on the bus that I don't think warranted a move in the seat and I think the kids should been kicked off the bus. Um, and that's the behavior and the bullying. I think if somebody's throwing food at a bus driver, I think that's an automatic off the bus for a while. Um, is the board comfortable with three? What is it? Tom, you go back to right there. Is the board comfortable with up to three or do you think we should put more teeth in going to three or is it going to depend on what the writeups are? Just looking for thoughts. Carolyn, clarification on this. When you're using the word suspension, is that suspension from school and
033from the bus? Because if we are treating the bus the same as it is the school I have. I just want to know is that are they off out of school and they're off the bus or are they just suspended from the bus? I just want a clarification on that wording. Suspension off the bus. If there's behavior that um warrants obviously when the principal is involved, correct? Like a classroombased u behavior issue can result in a suspension and that's going to come from the principal. If there's something that's really isolated to the bus, this is what we're looking at right here is what we follow and the discipline will occur, you know, a suspension from the bus. to answer your question, it can be a obviously if a kid is suspended from school, they're clearly
034not going to take the bus that day. Um, but yeah, typically at times there are just suspensions on the bus while the kid is still at school, but there can be instances where, you know, it goes more severe than that. They're suspended from school outright, but that that that comes from the principal at that point. That does not come from me with our zero tolerance bullying policy when children are being bullied in the classroom and or on the bus that would fall that behavior is the same depend doesn't matter what location they're on. Yeah. So if you if you look back at policy 8600 essentially says as soon as the student steps foot on the bus they're considered at school more or less. They're based. The behaviors that are expected at school are same behaviors
035expected on the bus. So the expectations don't change whether you're on a yellow school bus or you're in home room or the cafeteria, what have you. With our bullying policy, I'm assuming is it I didn't pull this one up. Is that one warning or is that zero warning? Zero tolerance meaning that you're not allowed to bully another child. Therefore, that would be that would and should be the same. Kind of tying back to D's question, I really believe you can get a maybe a minor offense. You take a pen from somebody who's sitting next to you from their backpack and they complain. Maybe that's more minor. Um bullying a child, endangering the lives of everybody on the school bus by throwing food at a bus driver or distracting a bus driver to the point where
036they are not focused on the road but worried about what's happening behind them to protect another child and they're looking back and screaming. I I would say that should be suspension from the school. It should be suspension from the bus. I am not interested in having a headline that any of our bus drivers are distracted to the point where there's an accident or that any of our children are feeling unsafe to ride a bus. So, I I agree in that. I think when I've been involved in any type of that step three stuff there, it's pretty cut and dry with me. If you're a distraction to the driver, you're a safety hazard to everybody. You're off until you get it right. It's about that simple. Uh Jody, did you want to I guess expand upon
037this policy here and talk about you asked about does it happen in school? What happens in school? What doesn't? We put this policy 5600.01 in place for disciplinary consequences for student misconduct. And that covers, it's not an exhaustive list, but it covers a um a lot of possible behaviors. You mentioned bullying and what can be ha what can happen in the instance of bullying. It could be a suspension from school depending on the age. It could also be uh inter intervention with the principal. It could be intervention with a phone call from the parent. So in many instances it is progressive unless it becomes something that is repeated and pervasive and we know that it is happening. I think the key in a lot of these issues is do we know that it is happening
038and what is getting reported to us. Katrina, we've, you know, I know you and Tom have talked about it, Tom and I have talked about it. If behavior is happening on the bus, it needs to get reported to Katrina. It needs to come to us on the school so that we can do something about it. Um, once we do something and when we intervene, uh, those consequences can be severe for the bus behavior. Um, in talking with Tom, I did learn that when we Tom, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, but when we suspend kids from the bus, we've been offering to provide alternate means to get to school. So, it's actually been a while since we probably have gotten to that step, but yeah, I I want to say that that there
039has been times in the past, and this probably goes back a few years, where we we had a very prolonged uh suspension from the bus, but the student was unable to find transportation. So in that event, we weren't willing to give them a pass and say, "Okay, we'll just ride the bus since you have no other means." And in those instances that I recall us providing alternative transportation, really using seniors on the go taxi service. So that's costing us more money. Yep. That would have I think in in these situations, you know, we talk about needing to partner with our parents. You know, part of that is if a student is suspended from the bus, unless we are otherwise required to provide by law transportation, which we would in an instance for a student with
040a disability, um we then make need to make sure that we're following through so that the parent or some family member, friend, whatever it is, is actually transporting the child to school. Um because I think that that's a critical component of getting the behavior to change. I mean, we can issue the consequence, but we also need to have the support from the family to help correct that behavior from home. If all we're doing is providing another means to get to school, that becomes I don't think that that quite gets the message across as we're going to discipline. You had mentioned that prior to Dow taking over, the bus drivers had the ability to impose some immediate consequences. What What were those? It it was generally a write up that went home with the student right
041away that day. Um, and it was it was somewhat more effective, I think. Okay. Um, issuing that instant consequence where the student had that piece of paper and it said on the bottom it said, "Hey, you have to have mom and dad sign this or you can't ride the bus tomorrow." Would we ever deny a student? No, we never did. The kid was there. We were taking them. But, uh, that had changed, like I said, to the current policy roughly when Houseman had, uh, taken over. So, is that something that we need to consider bringing back? I like that idea. I would just advise some caution on that because if we have students with disabilities who are suspended from the bus, those and they cannot get to school, those count towards a 10-day suspension limit
042for students with disabilities and then we will be in violation of IEPs and we'll be on the hook for compensatory ed for that student. So, there's no way to I don't believe that there is a good way for all of the bus drivers to know that. And just for perspective, I don't know how long we've been in partnership with Gman, but that has really been heavily emphasized in about the last 10 years where school districts must ensure that a student with a disability can get to school if they otherwise cannot. Right. And our drivers are not privy to the information of who is special needs and who's not besides just observing. And nor would there nor there be reason to share that, right? So what's an alternative option then? Because what we're doing isn't working.
043what we were doing in the past was working at least to an extent but now we're we're handcuffed because of our students with disabilities. So what's the alternative? Yeah. Well, I I guess the question that I ask is again when we know and I have to emphasize when we know when we know about it when the driver reports it then there is a process in place. Now, if the chart up there that talks about three warnings, uh, then a one-day suspension or whatever it is, if if that is ineffective, then I think we need to revisit what steps one through four are. But to turn over the responsibility of disciplining a student to anybody but the principal of the school, then I think we're going to run into some longer some bigger issues down the
044road um that we have to have our hands on. I think then we have to have I guess more concrete policy for the administrators to follow through on that. Absolutely. Well, but my other concern with that is we're getting what about 15 reports a week of what we know. But clearly from what we're hearing from other parents, it's more frequent than that. But if the bus drivers can't hear it and they can't intervene and they can't write kids up, what are we doing? Like how do we know? To add on to that, I wanted to add, you know, you're I felt like 15 was really low. Yeah. Yeah. And I almost wonder if that in conjunction with a it's not an indictment of our drivers, but a sense or an environment of apathy because their
045hands are tied. You know, this is going through an administrative process and they don't really see any end endame with it all. I mean, is is our 15 really 45 or 50? You know, probably. So, so how about I mean it's complex problem but that says no more than three driver statements. How about if we break this out into anything the the driver sees as an immediate danger to their ability to drive the bus. They get to go I don't know a red card right to the principal like you need to make sure and then the principal can investigate if there's special needs. Right. the principal is perfectly qualified to administer all the discipline to the kids. I think one of the things, Mike, that that we need to re-emphasize is retrain these expectations with
046our principles. And if if the the idea of three driver statements is enough then to move on to the next step, perhaps that's the issue. Perhaps it is you need one warning. If I That's what I'm getting at. If the bus driver says this is it, it has to happen. Yes, that should be like you're you're not waiting for three times. I think the intent there with the driver's statement is really just to empower the driver to have the authority to move a kid to a certain spot like that is within their rights to move a kid to a seat where they can take that authority. Perhaps that three driver statements is excessive and too lenient. Maybe give them the opportunity perhaps for one and then go to the principal. Sorry, if I could just
047continue on with this real quick. Yeah, I don't have all the answers for this stuff the driver can't hear. But if we can't solve the whole thing, maybe we can at least start with the safety of the bus itself. And that's where bus driver says this one almost caused me to have an accident cuz whatever it something was thrown at me or I don't know. But at that point, they should be able to go right to principal and say you need to take action and and it should be done. Would the board be open to Tom convening a team of um from um from Dman uh to sit down and talk about like what are the limit what are the the experiences that our drivers are having? What is going on on the road? What
048are things that we need to be mindful of and come back with a revised um uh discipline flowchart here uh for what would be the next school year. Would that would the board be comfortable with that? Yes. Yeah. Can we send a message to the drivers, too, and let them know that we are here for them and we want to hear. So, if they're on the fence or they don't want to seem like they're being complaining, please complain. Please tell us. Please pass that word along. I want the principles to be hearing this. I want the documentation going to Tom. I We want our kids safe and feeling like they're being heard. And I know they don't they can't hear. I can't even hear in the back of the Suburban when my kids are talking
049to me and it's only two rows back. So, I know they can't hear anything. But maybe there's a place on our website or social media where we can direct our parents where to call because there's a lot of people where they've called me. They're like, I don't know who to call. That's a good it's a great question. I know because I know Tom. So, I call Tom if I have issues. But a lot of parents don't know that. So, what number should they be calling if they hear that their kids been being bullied or if they hear that their kids being robbed while they're on like all of those things that are happening that those bus drivers have no idea. How do we get that heard, right? Well, like I said, if it's if they
050call the bus company, then we investigate immediately. If they send an email to the principal, the principal then contacts me, too, and then we look at the video. So there's and then the students going to the teachers who then go to the principal who then goes to me. I mean those are the ways that I've received it so far. I mean you know our and our principles have the ability at the end of the day that if there is a bus that is unruly the principal can get on the bus and ride the bus route home and we've had and then yeah and then come back to school. So we can address it. But again, one of the key things is knowing from the driver what is happening on the road and then we can
051respond. And if it's already not being done, maybe I don't know, a survey or ask the drivers, hey, what would you like to see? Like how can we empower you? Maybe there's some good ideas we haven't thought of. Jake, did you have something to say? I was just going to mention which I think we're on track to do but yeah we got to find a way to you know differentiate that step one where certain things are obviously fasttracked if you know there's danger it's distracting a bus driver I mean can't let that happen three times before we right well with the no more than three times if it is a danger safety physical issue I immediately go to step two um if it's jumping on the seats crawling on the floor things like that then
052we'll keep down at the lower level and just contact the parents. But yeah, as soon as they put hands on any other student or um a perceived weapon or slurs, racial slurs or any other damaging words, then we immediately go to the principal. Jason, being new here, I'm not sure exactly um the answer to this. Um the mobile phone or the phone policy, does that extend onto the bus? The cell phone policy is for enter the front door of the school and leave on the back at the end of the day. Okay. So, door to door unless it's field trips on a bus. Correct. Field trips. The any any staff member who is supervising kids can set the expectation after school. It's no phone time and the policy applies in that instance. So, I know
053this is true with my son. It's not just an anidote there, but I know the young young men that uh are in the scope group, a lot of them could attest to some of the first times that they saw many different things and heard different things is on the bus. So, I think there ought to be an avenue to give. Obviously, there needs to be some differentiation like Jake said, but to give more teeth and ability to have a consequence with what's going on with the buses. Okay. Any other questions or comments on that? Thank you very much. I appreciate you coming taking your time out and helping us out. You're welcome. So, Tom and Katrina will get together u in the weeks ahead and we will have something uh to the board for a
054summer meeting. Thank you. Thank you, Katrina. Moving on to personnel topics. Director report Um, I just have the director's report in which uh I last week shared an update on our wellness committee and the work that we have done as a wellness committee and what we're going to continue to do as we move into next year. Any questions or comments? All right. Thank you. Student learning topics. Hey, I also just have my director's report. Um, at the committee of the whole meeting, we actually had several um, student learning topics. First, we had Dustin. Um, he gave an update on our education for employment plan and highlighted some great things happening. Then, Michelle Ziggler and I had a presentation on the secondary ELA resource recommendation. We are recommending adoption of the My Perspectives resource. So that
055will come for approval tonight. And we also did, excuse me, we also did an update on our elementary ELA curriculum renewal process. Um, we have been researching and we'll be piloting next year. And then finally, we looked at an extended field trip proposal for the marching band. So that also will be coming up for approval tonight. Any questions? I think we're good. Thank you. We're on to student service topics. All right. So, I just have my director's report also. Uh but last week we did a presentation on our behavioral threat assessment uh process and then we also had a presentation by uh Jen Tyson on student behavior and how that's monitored and dressed uh dressed during the school day. Any questions? We're good. Thank you. Thanks. Finance and facilities. I give an update to the
056committee of the whole on the steps we've taken and in our efforts to reduce the the budget deficit. So to date, we've reduced almost 1.1 million of the $ 1.4 million deficit. So we'll look to balance that up uh in the coming uh weeks or months here before we adopt the final budget in October. I also gave just a little bit of information on the uh the outlook for the 2526 tax levy as well as the 2627. Just as a reminder, next this fall's tax levy will not reflect the construction borrow for the new middle school that will appear in the fall of 26. And then I just gave some budget year-to- date expend expenditure developments and everything looks fine. Any questions or comments for Tom? Thank you. Moving on to action items, hires, retirements,
057and resignations. Um, all right. We have two employees that we offered a contract to. Jamie Pruska, not Pruska, Pruska. Uh she is going to be the business and marketing teacher at the high school. And then we have Shelby Starret, whose name might sound familiar to you because we she was going to leave us and now she is coming back. We have a position available to her um because as you see below, we have a resignation of an art teacher, Meredith Huber, who is um going to she would like to teach at the high school level. So, she's going to do that and Shelby is ecstatic to be able to stay with us. So, worked out for everybody. Great. Make a motion to approve hires, retirements, and resignations. Second. We have a motion in a second
058to approve hires, retirements, and resignations. Any questions or comments? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed say no. Motion carries. Moving on to secondary ELA adoption. All right. So, yep. Again, we are requesting um approval of the adoption of the My Perspectives resource for grades 6 through 10. Um that is after thorough research and a piloting process. So, looking for the board to take action on that tonight. Make a motion that we approve the My Perspectives resource for grades 6 through 10. We have a motion and second to approve the secondary ELA curriculum. All those in any questions or comments hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed say no. Motion carries. Moving on to extended trip proposal marching band. So again, looking for approval um on
059this marching band trip that is to occur in August of this year. Make a motion to approve the extended trip proposal for the marching band. Second. We have a motion and a second to approve the extended trip for the marching band. Any questions or comments? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed say no. Motion carries. Moving on to policies. We have two policies up tonight. Crosby, thank you for being the careful proof reader on these. We did make the corrections to them. One is on intercolastic athletics and the other one is on elementary and middle athletics and activities. Uh these have been to the board, I believe, three times for review. Looking for a motion. There's no motion. This is going to fail. We need a motion for each one. Um,
060it can just be under policies. I'd like to make a motion that we approve the intercolastic athletics policy and the elementary and middle athletics and activities policy. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any questions or comments? I actually have one question. Browse me on the elementary and middle level. There's still an error in the very last sentence. I think it should say or permit the use of any drug or medication just like the other one. Thank you. I'm sorry. Yes. Okay. Uh if you amend that, we will add the ore in there. Okay. I'll make the amendment to add the ore in the correct place. Second. We have a motion and second to add the amendment to the policy in the elementary middle school athletics. Um any questions or comments? Hear none. All
061those in favor of the amendment say I. I. Those opposed say no. Motion carries. Now we're looking for a motion to pass the new amended policy and the inter Scholastic um athletics. We have a motion to vote on it. Yeah, we need a motion to second because it changed. Oh, we did. Yeah, I don't think we need a new. Okay. All right. We have a motion in the second. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed say no. Motion carries. Up next, we have the relocation of the Wano Veterans Memorial to ren to renovated Parkview Middle School location. So, um so after the committee of the whole meeting, uh we're recommending that the board take action on the proposal to move the Veterans Memorial uh from the current location to the renovated Park View
062uh school location per the site plan drawing presented on uh May 12th um upon the completion of the project. Just for some background information, the Moana area school district would be honored to host the site or host the veterans memorial on our site. Uh we're committing to the space being presented during the May 12th committee of the whole meeting. The district would provide uh the cemented area. So if you can picture the uh the layout of the property, the three flag pole fle I'm sorry, three flag poles in the drawing electric to the site and we would maintain the location through lawn care and snow removal. that additional funding uh would be the responsibility of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion or other interested parties. So, we've got that drawing on the map uh
063and that is what we would be. I just want to be clear, too. The school district is not in the business of fundraising for this. So, I'll make a motion to approve the relocation of the Veterans Memorial to the renovated Park Middle School location. Second. Right. We have a motion and a second. Any questions or comments? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed say no. Motion carries. Moving on to unfinished business. Superintendent report. So this is the time of year where we start to recognize our staff who've hit some big milestones with us. Our 15, 20, 25, 30, and 35 years. Uh so I'm just going to go through the list of uh staff that um are hitting these milestones. So, 35 years of service, Lisa Hastler, uh, speech and language
064pathologist at Parkview. 30 years of service, Mark Dum, Sue Hos, Carrie Schultz, Tracy Stockwell, and Kevin Wright. 25 years of service, Carrie Adams, Pam Kramer, Shelley Mlan, Ron Schlick, Jeremiah Chitwood did hit 26 years uh, this year. Uh our 20 years of service service uh folks are Sue Brezvar, Cindy Fendrich, Kristen Gluch, Sheila Growl, Christy Hogan, and Tammy Johnson. And Dean Kavneski, Charlie Cool, Amy Noatne, Daniel Perie, and John Summers. And then our 15 years of service folks this year are Ryan Vice, Megan Cash, Jennifer Lince, Janette Moore, Chelsea Pasinsky, Ashley Roers, Zack Schneider, Katherine Selzer, Megan Swift, and Polly Wushek, uh, in our food service program. So, uh, great group of folks that have committed many, many years to us. Um uh we we we greatly appreciate their service uh to our district and
065to the kids uh who go to school here each day. Uh question came in uh regarding the detachment request that we saw last year. And uh just to remind everybody, update everybody. So detachment request was made. We did a hearing, I believe it was back in February, if my memory is serving me correctly, about a year ago. Uh the board at that time voted to approve the request. I believe it was on a five to four vote. Um the ascending district Palmyra Eagle uh rejected it. So then it was appealed to the state boundaries panel. Uh that's DPI panel uh that is made up of schoolboard members from around the state. Um the boundary panel then decided uh that the um the denial would be upheld. So the denial that uh Paul Eagle made up
066they upheld the decision and then it was final uh unless the family decides to appeal it again or go through the process. So uh boundary appeals generally work like that. It's either individuals or small areas large area detachments. Um school boards have to vote on it and then a state panel if appeals are made find the final decision. Quick question. If if they do appeal it again and something changes do we revote on it? Correct. So if they submit another request for detachment um it goes back to both school boards, both school boards vote on it. Um and if there is if both boards say yes, the detachment happens. If both boards say no, the detachment does not happen. If one says yes and one says no, has the opportunity. Finally, um we while we
067are at that point where we start to acknowledge years of service, um I do want to take a minute to thank Tom. Um so, uh over the last 10 years, uh as Tom is our CFO, um our district has uh passed referendum uh to build a new high school, built the new high school, uh handled the financing uh behind the the high school plan, restructured the debt of the high school plan, repeatedly uh taxpayer friendly budgets, paid the high school debt down uh ahead of schedule, uh went back to referendum and part of this then we go through a borrowing process and uh um there you know school business managers can get an award from the state association. Um you know that is one definite measure of merit for their work. Uh but the other
068one is the bond rating. Um, and I I don't know in the realm of of the business official what is more important, the WBO uh recognition um or the bond rating, but through Tom's work uh through the the work of our administrative team, our school boards over time, we hit a level of double A+ um in the uh in the rating. Uh so Tom, I'm gonna ask Dale to come over here. Just want to give you a little recognition for your work. I don't say this too often. [Applause] you don't want to hear. For the record real quick, as a taxpayer, seeing all the stuff that's gone on, I am blessed to live in this district with someone like Tom watching all of our dollars. It's more important than most people realize. And you, like
069uh Dale said, invaluable. Thank you. Great. Tom, you can now replace the one that we gave you earlier this uh earlier this year. In the interest of making this meeting more and more quickly, I'll save the speech for another day. But thank you all. I do appreciate it. Thank you. Awesome. Congrats, Tom. Um president's report. I just want to say the people watching um don't have to tell the district office employees you're the board but I know we hear about like the bus pro problems on the bus um but walking through the schools we have vast majority of our students are wonderful students great students I'll hear complaints about kids are unruly in a school I don't I'm in a schools enough to walk through the schools walk in classrooms kids are engaged very respectful
070So, just wanted to put that out there. Just because we're trying to fix and fine-tune things doesn't mean like our kids are out of control. So, that's what I want to say. And also, I want to thank Stephanie Blue again because the high school really really has changed. If you walk in there, the vibe, the friendliness, the staff, it's it's definitely a new vibe and the positive in the positive. So, that's my report. Thank you. Up next, we have the executive session for Wisconsin statute 19.85. We'll be discussing specific student discipline and employee compensation, teacher salary negotiations. Are we going to come back out? We are not coming back out tonight. Okay. Thank you. All right. Looking for a motion to close the open session and go into close. Make a motion that we go
071into close session. Second. Have a motion and second. Crosby, roll call, please. Jason, yes. Mike, yes. Jake, yes. Dale, yes. Carolyn, yes. Yes.