001e e e calling this meeting to order Monday February 24th 6 PM cross do R call please Jason Mike here Jake here Jim here Dale here Eric Carolyn here Craig here Crosby here this is an open meeting and it has been posted please join me for the Pledge of Allegiance States all right up first is Citizens comments do we have we do would Deb swek please come forward you have three minutes and I'll give you a 30 second warning thank you hello Deb turn it on there we are hi um I just wanted to say a few things about the scoreboard um part of the agenda um I just wish we would have seen some other bids from other companies um I if unless I missed it I thought that would have been good to
002to see and then on the scoreboard do we really need to have something that shows pictures and um little sayings I mean can we just have a scoreboard do we have to have some real fancy thing and the cost goes up um I think it was said that they would show um the graduates going across the stage or whatever well I don't think we hold the ceremonies here anyways so I don't know was just something I wanted to bring up thanks thank you time's up Deb thank you any other all right close comments are done going on to consent agenda looking for the approval of the committee of the whole meeting minutes of February 10th 2025 and approval of vouchers and receipts any questions or comments hearing none that's approved by consent and move on
003to Personnel topics director's report we do not ever report this evening okay do we have any for student learning yep okay just director's report so at the committee of the whole meeting I had two informational items the first was just an overview of the standardized assessment plan for the district and the second was an update on our curriculum renewal work specifically our secondary Ela and science pilots and then our elementary Ela research work and more information about both of those things will be coming back to the board in April and May and that's all I have any questions all right thank you not to student service topics I just have the director's report and that was just a recap of the Aspire program um that came to present last time uh they were really excited
004the feedback was really great from families and so I appreciate all of you taking the time and just the interest uh in the program so that was great thank you was awesome was good any questions for Christine thank you finance and Facilities director's report all right so um couple questions I'm going to answer here one came from Crosby and one came from Jake at in January I believe so Crosby you had asked about the decoupling Bill and what kind of effect that would have on Magano um I I showed this graph back in October I believe um this shows Kett maray Magano moso and waaaw um in regards to how much is in our tax levy that goes to pay for students that attend private voucher schools so we are the orange chart uh orange
005bar obviously a lot less than walaa but this really shows that every school school district is in this upward trajectory of the tax levy is increasing this element of the tax levy is increasing to pay for students who attend private voucher schools okay um our value this past year was 1.4 uh8 million um that the coupling bill in essence what it does is it uh it's state government's way if this bill were to pass to say we're going to take this off of your local property tax levy we're going to fund this through some other type of Revenue source and say it has nothing to do with with public schools and we are going to decouple the two um so if that happened then obviously our tax levy would go down which would be great
006the way that it was proposed is that um there would be some additional revenues for us but the probability of this actually happening is is slim to none um this would this is a 300 Statewide uh tax levy goes up $300 million to pay for students that attend private voucher schools so if this were to be taken off local property taxes then there would be a new $300 line item that the legislature would say how do we pay for this where's the money coming from currently it's coming from property taxes so you know they collect that 5% sales tax that's on everything we buy they could pay that for that through uh grow purpose revenue or some other source but it's probably not going to happen would we support this yeah I don't think it's
007happening though did I answer your question there Crosby thank you um I know that Milwaukee has decoupled and I think rine was in the process of doing it as well do we have the option or is that no longer an option since they moved away from the individual City school choice program to the Statewide school choice program so I believe that there's four Statewide programs there's uh the Milwaukee parental Choice program rine parental Choice program uh the special needs scholarship program and then the Statewide one that's like everything else that isn't Rina Milwaukee um but at the end of the I guess I don't know enough about Milwaukee and rine but we don't have an option to say hey can we do this ourselves that that is not an option okay Joe am I missing
008anything on that okay all right um so I'm just GNA go through a couple budget things here Jim you're you're I guess new to some of this information so I'm going just quickly explain um explain this so in the packet here I'm going to just highlight a couple things one is every time we meet here and I give a director's report I'm just letting you know how our payroll is progressing I have three uh exhibits here we just completed our um 18th payroll of the school year so what I do is I these ones in yellow are the four prior years and then I look at where did where were we or I guess where are we and where are we going and so then I I basically build these into percentages and so we
009are 56.6% I know there's a lot of numbers on the screen I apologize that it's not big but I can project forward and say if we are 56.6% of the way into our budgets based on history we are going to land right here which puts us at about 99% of our overall budget which means we'll be 1% under budget regarding salaries that's the biggest line item that's the one we should all be concerned with the most so I have no concerns about this at this time okay so just giving you guys an update on that I'll do that every month as we as we go forward the following exhibit so as you take a look at this is fund 10 this is fund 21 so on so forth all of our funds are there and
010then there's nine buckets below it the first one is employee salaries so we have 29.7 for the budget here's how much we've expensed or encumbered and here's how much of the budget we have remaining so it's my job to say is 43.1% enough to pay the remainder of the school year I just said yep we're good I think there will be 1% left in this bucket when all things are said and done and I look at each of the funds uh employee benefits purchase Services supplies equipment Etc and just say how are we doing we're doing fine I have no concern concerns to share with you guys at this time so that's just kind of State of the Union real quick regarding our budget you guys have any questions about that I I'll keep sharing
011this with you at each board meeting as we move through the rest of the second semester um for our bank balances I gave a quick memo here I shared this with you last time uh the last sheet here I have a graph that shows you where we were at the month of December as I said the last meeting and I'll make this just a little bit bigger here this uh November is our low water month and and regarding our cash position we had $8.7 million uh of cash available at the end of November so again if the board were to ask how much could we spend on one-time initiatives whatever it might be that you have whatever needs the district might have that's the amount of money if we had less than that then we'd
012have to short-term borrow which we could do uh but it's nice not to then you don't have to pick up that extra interest cost by borrowing money uh many school districts do do that by the way most school districts I dare say do short-term borrow because they don't have enough fund balance available but we're in an awesome spot that's the point there and then lastly Jake you had asked a question about last year's FTE projection um and I'll get back up to that here so let me just make that a little bit smaller so last year we projected I think we adopted a budget Assumption of minus 25 we were projecting and these are all the grade levels this is 4K 5K first second third goes all the way down to 12th grade we were
013projecting a minus 30 what actually happened was a minus 60 okay um the reason being is that for uh we were really close at almost every grade level but 5K predicting 5K is is hard to do you're just wondering as these kids come to you for the first time fully well how many of you are there you have a kind of an idea of how many kids are coming because they attend 4K but 4K is not compulsory kids don't always attend 4K for whatever reasons the family might have so it's kind of guesswork on 4K and 5K once you have your 5K class in you know what they look like as first graders when they come back at second graders as they come back so we were close but we missed on the 5K piece
014we were basically pretty close across the board in every other grade level so as we adopted this year is minus 125 FTE we'll talk next year and in February to see how we did but that's I think it's a reasonable assumption that we've adopted at this time and just to be clear then what we're really talking about so the budgeting would be based on the higher of what we actually have on that third Friday or the three-year average so what what I do is I I plug the minus 125 in that goes into our three-year average and we build a number off of that so we already know last year FTE and the year prior so we basically put a minus 125 in there and move forward got it okay yeah and that's the director's
015report thank you moving on to action items hires retirements and resignations so tonight we have two retirement notices we have uh Christine Butler Chris Butler who is a second grade teacher teacher at Rolling Hills Elementary and we have Ann Lanna who is a teacher at Parkview Elementary School um one of our family and consumer science teachers looking for motion to pass those I make a motion that we approve the retirement notices I second we have a motion in a second to approve the retirements there any questions or comments Carolyn just a wonderful thank you to both of them for their service any other questions all those in favor say I I all those opposed say no motion carries n to 2025 26 budget assumption and goals all right so we're looking to continuing to build
016the budget out we adopted all of our Revenue assumptions at the last meeting we have a minus1 25 FTE we assume we're going to get a plus 325 per student basically everything else stays status quo for the most part so now we're going to adopt some expenditure assumptions what I'm recommending is that CPI was 2.95% let's go ahead and adopt that in our budget um obviously there's a long ways to go things will change we'll begin negotiations with the teachers union at some point in the future but to build this budget we will put that in um for a salary of some assion uh salary increase assumption and then for the health insurance I'm recommending that we do a plus 10% um you know as I talked to fully insured districts around the area the
017standard is plus 20 and plus 30 we found something that inflates at a much slower level so I think we're doing every everything we can to keep that but to be reasonable with ourselves hopefully it comes in at a plus five you know something like that but let's just go here and keep this thing conservative in nature um plan for you know kind of the worst and hope for the best uh and then lastly I'm recommending here at the bottom number three is the overall budget goal if we could adopt just let's build a balanced budget where Revenue uh revenues equal expenditures and the general fund and fund 10 the focus needs to be on fund 10 um at this time so those are my recommendations to you that uh we use to build our
018budget as we move forward do you want individual action for each of those oh think you could well that's up to you guys if somebody wants to make a motion we accept all three I'd like to make a motion we accept all three second second we have a motion in a second to accept the budget assumptions and goals any questions or comments all right all those in favor say I I hi all those opposed say no motion carries up next scoreboard update all right I'm going to ask Andy tral is going to come join us here um got your comments here we we are going to address that here so um tonight I guess you know we have an update as my memo spelled out that we have 395 uh $390,000 raised from private donations
019so far the all-in cost for the Mater the scoreboard itself the installation and um some other services needed to connect uh the electrical supply and the fiber optics the all-in number is $625,000 so we've secured just about 400,000 we have a little bit more work to do we talked about this about four weeks ago so in four weeks time um $400,000 has been raised um and so we're bringing this I guess to potentially for action it's your choice if you like to table this in weights or or if you say we're comfortable with where things are we' like to move forward um we we still have some more uh the the major spots on the on the scoreboard have for the most part been taken care of um but if you're comfortable with where we
020are um we have 125,000 in sponsorships remaining which if we sell all that out uh that would put us at $515,000 um that's a five that's how much we would dra draw in five years to be completely paid back for this school board would take six years so if the school board were to front the money there would be 100% payack back in six years time through private donations and that's pretty sweet anytime um the school district can get an expense to be picked up through some type of method like this it made me think that maybe we should sell some sponsorships on our buses and maybe somebody could pick up the tab on on the school buses but the here and the now is the scoreboard um so Andy's done a lot of leg
021work into all this here I'm going to ask Andy to jump in and just kind of talk about that and why dakron why D Tronics Andy I'll turn it over thank you uh thanks for having me um as far as wide de Tronics um there really are two uh of the Premier scoreboard companies um that that people purchase is De Tronics and nevco we actually have boards uh from both companies uh in the on the football field it's nevco uh the new West gym uh those boards are nevco the old uh North gym is D Tronics and then baseball softball and soccer are D Tronics uh all have been uh very very quality boards for us over the years when you go from a a standard scoreboard to a scoreboard SLV video board uh de
022Tronics uh jumps ahead as far as quality they are uh considered to be uh the best in the industry all the top boards in our in our area uh are actronics Lambo field Camp Randall The fiser Forum the only one that's not is Brewer stadium they do something different there it's it's uh like a Samsung more of a TV type of thing rather than a scoreboard uh video board um Big 10 everybody uh that neighbors us Illinois Northwestern Iowa Minnesota uh and then in our conference as far as high schools go uh there are three schools that currently have uh video scoreboards that's Arrowhead moso and okam walk all three of those boards are de Tronics uh the okon walk ad is new so I didn't call him because his board went in before he
023started but talked to both Arrowhead uh and moso both named Ryan by the way uh and I asked those guys uh if they bid out uh their scoreboards when they didn't and they both said the same thing that they did not that de Tronics is a superior uh video board uh and that that was the only uh company that they uh they reached out to when they did their boards I think Arrowhead made a comment that if you're going to spend a half a million dollars um you know go with the best and and not wish that you had done something uh something different some of the other cool things about doctronics uh doctronics has a curriculum uh that they provide uh with the purchase of the board uh that our students will use so
024in our uh Sports Marketing class as well as our AV club uh we're going to be teaching our students uh how to and shortly thereafter they'll teach us how to uh use the video board create content for the video board uh so that uh the games and and activities that happen out on that board a lot of what you're going to see is going to be produced by uh by our students D Tronics tells stories of of students gave one example of a student uh at Oak Creek who learned everything about running a doctronics board and everything he learned was exactly what uh you need to know to run the board at at W Madison and he got a job when uh he was a student there immediately because he was already trained on the
025technology which is which is really cool as well uh the other nice thing with d Tronics it's uh works as part of our we have a uh exclusivity clause or agreement with a company called BSN which we buy all of our uniforms from uh as well as our spirit packs and uh in we're a Nike school as as most of you you know um as part of that deal we get a kickback based on how much we we purchase every year in purchasing this scoreboard uh that will be part of our deal we'll get 7% back from uh BSN that we can use for hard Goods so buying uh supplies for athletics whether it be balls or equipment of some sort that we need uniforms they also do branding so if you've been in the
026high school different there's branding all over the school and we're constantly updating those things uh we can use that Kickback money for any of those uh types of things as well which we wouldn't have uh if we went from uh with another company and then just the service at daktronics has been has been amazing Tom and I have have gone out and uh done some sales pitches uh three different uh businesses uh individually and then we did a a presentation at uh Morning Star golfers club where we had a number of uh business owners uh at that event uh and our sales guy Chris from daktronics joined us for all those presentations he's willing to do more um I know when we've had service calls uh daktronics has been fantastic to work with I wish
027Zach was here uh he he kind of oversees that type of uh that type of stuff and and he's preferred working with them uh over um nevco my other our other provider uh so that's why uh de Tronics so on excuse me on the uh screen right there then we have um you know what the proposed scoreboard would look like there's two anchor Partners up top those have been committed to and then there's five founding Partners on the bottom and four of those five have been committed to uh in addition to the two up top and the Five Below there's 12 what we call Premier Partners uh which is uh basically those individuals would get video um commercials played pregame halftime postgame you know at certain spots throughout the game um that as a cost
028of there's room for 12 of those we have three another one jumped in today so we have nine of those which is essentially 1,500 a year um or 7500 in total for five years so we feel given that the the majority of the large dollar ones are committed um and they might all be committed I just as I think about this we're waiting on just a couple other entities to answer back um I think fair to say we feel pretty confident about you know selling those Premier Partnerships that uh that we have outstanding at $1,500 a year for five years um you know I guess again to summarize and hopefully answer some questions that folks might have in the room D Tronics commitment to acquiring sponsors they've been really instrumental in this I'm not sure
029that other scoreboard partners are providing the support to meet with others to say we're going to help you pay for this they have a great track record in doing that which obviously when sponsor are paying the school's bills that really helps our taxpayers the academic component of the board um which you know will fit into a Sports Marketing entertainment course which is one of our Career and Technical education courses at Magano High School uh Zach Ortiz will probably lead this I shouldn't say probably uh Zach's going to Le this and he knows that um but ENT essentially there will be a transition where students will take over that and it'll be our students who are running this on Friday nights and other large events and that really kind of um coincides with an academic um
030and then lastly you know D tronic has has Superior Products as Andy said and arrow hads comments there um if you're going to do something do it right spend the money once and get it done correctly so um I think it's ultimately Andy it's been about two or three years I think 20122 is when we started to research the eventual replacement so um here we are so I guess what we have in front of us tonight is if you're comfortable um we can move forward the only contingency I would ask that we have it to be aware of and I have that in my memo is the village of Magano um plan commission needs to uh approve this we're hoping to just put it right where you see it on the screen right there um
031but they might have an issue with it facing County Road NN so if that's the case we might just have to find an alternate location and whatnot um so if you're comfortable we can proceed with the purchase and then the payback would take five to six years um and then it would be just contingent on the village Planning Commission approving it if you guys have any questions we'll answer them all right now we have to wait for a motion sorry oh yep sure sure I make a motion that we move forward with approval for purchasing the scoreboard of District funds uh with $515,000 to be raised via scholar uh sponsorship and repaid to the Magano Area School District over an approximate period of 5 years well it says five I'll I'll answer that question when
032well go ahead say she said approximate so yep or right there I'll second we have a motion and second any questions or comments Mr gu I'm just curious if if for some reason they do not approve the current current location what's the additional cost to move it somewhere else since the current location has all the hookup there for power yeah so um as far as the power goes yes I know fiber optics are going to have to run as well so and Tom you might know more than this on uh on this question but I think it's fairly similar if we had to go to the other the north east corner I think would be the other option The Village would have to approve that as well because it would be much closer to the
033road than you wouldn't see it you'd see the back of of it um so we'd have to get their approval on that as well I don't think it's a huge difference but I don't have the exact numbers I could get that for you so the the the picture that you have here I'm sorry this wasn't really made for a presentation here but um channeling electrical work um you know so here's the stadium here's the TP where the clock operator and the scoreboard operators are that's the East Side um we take fiber optic runs um along this route here to the concession stand yeah so we ultimately take it North uh excuse me South to the TP and then furthermore down to where this is here I think if we were to move it somewhere closer
034to the TP or to the you said anding the northeast corner here that would probably cut our cost down to be candid um where it's currently situated is is probably the furthest away where we have to run the electrical supply and the fiber optic so um my Ed educ educated guesses that it would get cheaper if we had to move it no I'm happy with that answer thank you thank you Crosby I think you said we would repay it in five to six years right yep what is the life time of a scoreboard like this 10 to 15 so we would have opportunity to make money from it so I what I would recommend to this yes what I would recommend is that the first five or six years is ultimately the district's Payback and
035then the next five or six years goes into a syncing fund to pay the next replacement of this and ultimately you never have to buy a scoreboard again others will do it for you okay and then did I hear correctly that we would get 7% back for what is that for again is that equipment and things like that yeah it's not in cash it's it's to be spent through BSN uh to purchase uniforms equipment uh branding type things as a as part of our Kickback program so if my math is mathing that's almost $44,000 that we would get back to spend it doesn't include the installation the electric all that kind of stuff it's the board itself but it'll 7% of 483,000 then okay I was using the wrong number then but the guy over
036there chunk of money to pay for uniforms and equipment and all that other stuff correct okay the two scenarios that you just went over for placement time is there a reason we would want it where it is where the scoreboard currently is now versus is the closer location um Andy I'm going to look your direction here goe option actually seems better to me the the current location or the northeast corner would be the traditional locations for a scoreboard obviously you need both Sidelines to be able to visually see it uh as the game is going on so you can't go like behind um you know if you go closer to the Tepe but still on the the south end here now it's behind our our bench you can't see it as you're coaching the game
037so those are really the two options um so it's really yeah it's really down by the Indians want to go yeah I think that scoreboard has been here longer than I can remember or that location anyway um but I think uh originally they put it there because it's further from the road and it's not quite as in your face as you drive by um because it would be really close to the road with that little bit of parking uh there and then uh the board in that northeast corner thank you see so ever since I've been on the board we've had citizens complained about the speakers at the at the stadium lacrosse youth football soccer football everybody that uses it had a complaint with speakers will this will this take care of our our speaker
038problem so if you've been if you've been to moso for football games there's no problem hearing everything there and it's the same thing it's built into the scoreboard and it's much more powerful than our current system as well yes it's is it around a speakers around the around the facil say Hensler field that's your speaker that's the only that's the speaker there correct yep so this this is video board scoreboard speakers all rolled up together yep another question Crosby does this work well in the sunlight because if we're looking at maybe repositioning it I just want to make sure that we don't drop all this money and then we can't see it right okay yeah it will show up just fine okay yep Jake I thought we had talked about potential for like an extended
039warranty or something on this just so we would know what the cost would be over 10 years or something to that effect I don't did we have we looked into that at all I don't know anything about an extended warranty yeah J I'm sorry that I guess I we can look into that I don't have an answer and if I miss something it's a fiveyear warranty is their standard I don't know if there's an ex extended option within the panels on the screen area it's you know they come like in rectangular sections so if one section goes out you simply replace that section not the entire video board so it's I mean it's built for replacement pieces to be you know for them to come and go as needed um but uh I guess I
040would have to get back on that I don't have an answer sorry I didn't anticipate that I apologize okay crossby we're talking about the Sports Marketing class and the other educational opportunities how how many students do we anticipate that will impact don't know that either um yeah that would be more a Dustin Layman question as far as how many kids he has in those classes now but I really think that our kids a number of our kids will get really excited about creating this content you know whether it's the kids creating Tik toks in our hallways which they don't do anymore because we don't have phones maybe after school they still do that um but I mean they love doing that kind of thing and that's definitely what this is our MTV uh announcements that
041they do during the the school day that the kids really enjoy that as well so I don't we're not going to have a problem getting kids that are excited for this class but as far as how many that is without offering it so there is room to expand what the video board can do so as they talk about like the uh future careers in the field that such a board can provide to students um we can expand this to have you know on the field cameras and play-by-play announcers we could be Chang in you know video shots from you know whatever sideline a to sideline b or to an aerial shot whatever it might be so um there's a this is definitely going to be a crawl walk run roll out of what the board
042can do but I think as we get better at um managing you know the board itself and and getting the kids to know what the board's capable of I potentially would see this being more and more popular as time goes on don't yeah I don't know how to answer for that specifically though so you're saying it might be too complex for verts I'm saying it is that's exactly what I'm saying as a matter of fact you could handle it Dale but no way Craig couldn't any Carolyn speaking of that Craig are we freeing up time with Zach in order for him to take this on oh he's excited Andy will take care excited I just want to make sure that he's gonna have the bandwidth yeah and he knows and and one of our goals
043is to get uh installation uh in June uh hopefully done in June so we have a month month and a half to a create the content and then practice with it our first football game is mid August so we want to be ready to go for that but yeah Zach is uh fully aware that there's some work involved in this so you know when Zach interviewed here a number of years ago the one thing he said is he had a background uh personally in music and he said there's nothing worse that when the lights are on and everyone's looking at you and the microphone doesn't work that's a problem yeah so Zach understands the importance and he's the right person to really direct this for us so I have a supreme confidence and zachor tees
044in in that regard uh to help us make this thing great in year one so the reason we're asking this right now if I didn't say that before I'll say it right now is we um to place the order on if this goes through on March 10th and on March 11th we call and we say let's make this happen as as soon as possible so that we're ready to go by mid August um and have this thing ready to roll here for we got six home games this year which is last year I think we had three and now we're flipping that six out of nine are at home so we would like to be ready um by the SE start of the season and that's just varsity football last year Zach and I went
045through with 63 events on the turf some small events like a freshman football game where maybe you have 100 people and then huge events like um I don't I think I don't think we had uh the egg drop last year from from Brook life but I mean there's thousands of people when they do that and we can incorporate the board and those types of things as well which our advertisers or our sponsor uh seem to think would they were really excited about so we guesstimated about 50,000 people in that Stadium uh each year nice Crosby if we were to not do a video board we were going to do just a regular scoreboard yep is there an opportunity to pay for it in sponsorships or Would we not get enough money in order to pay
046it off so the cost of a replacement and getting a similar um was $150,000 give or take that's the number that datonics gave so if we were to do something similar um could we get $150,000 from individuals for sponsorship on that board ah man that's a question for the business Community they're the ones who speak with their checkbooks and I don't know if they would be willing perhaps but you're asking me to speak for others that's obviously I'm going I'm going to be guarded when I do that so our current board we do have one sponsor H Citizens Bank uh sponsored that years ago when when they put it in um it's just just a fixed box underneath uh the scoreboard and you could certainly do something like that I don't know if you could
047add if you could sell um 19 different sponsorships like you can with the the the video display um but I think you could do certainly do a few fixed um and then the eyeballs are on it during games when somebody's looking at the score any other questions so forgive me I'm new to this topic um are there any other concerns with the Planning Commission for maano as far outside of just the two locations there's no issues with size or anything that goes with this board outside of those locations none that I'm aware of at this time but the plan commission will let us know if there's some issues and if there is some issues we come back on March 17th and we discuss whatever so we we'll make this whole effort contingent on the plan
048commission saying um good to go and that's why we're holding off to order until we get obviously their approval because there could be concerns that we're not aware of until we until we get in front of them any other questions Caroline for the previous scoreboard or the scoreboard we currently have I know we had talked about repurposing it gifting it donating it something giving it to an elementary school I know she's limping along right now it could be a huge investment for somebody and then just not work but what are our options for so I would I would say that given uh the life uh expectancy of that like a like a used car it it's kind of reached its end of useful life at some point there's one mechanic from that services that board
049in the Great Lakes area and the replacement parts simply really don't exist anymore so if we were to gift that to somebody it would kind of be a a buyer beware a donor beware type situation like I we can't really validate or give it a warranty that it's going to last right um it's probably it's definitely got a limited lifespan left you could put it on we do we put things on our auction site from time to time it's something you could put on there uh the controller itself is discontinued um we have multiple because it's the same controller that we have in the west Jam right now so we're we're fine um but that might be a concern for somebody but you could try to auction it and get a few bucks for it
050for sure the last time it was fixed I believe Zach Ortiz stole components out of a controller in the west gym to use it there you can kind of see where where that's headed it's we could certainly make that effort most definitely if we can use it for the middle school we'll do that um but I just don't want to raise expectations on on that just to be toy candid right understood I think it would look great in vert's backyard any other questions Co can you just please clarify the Planning Commission is that to get approval for just where it currently is or is that also potential approval for the alternate site uh we would go in asking for approval of the current location they may advise us that that's not going to be approved
051and and and tell us to reconsider at which time we'd have to shift so would it save time to ask for approval for both places both sites because I'm not an expert on going to the Planning Commission so I maybe defer to tell our friend Kurt Weeble house who uh helps us with our referendum work is is giving us an assist on this one right now since he works with the plan Commission in many ways as it relates to all of our building needs and particularly our referendum um he put us on the agenda and is helping us move for in that area if bottom line is we're trying to put this thing in the stadium and the location that makes the most sense to meet our needs and satisfies The Village um I would
052be shocked if we were the one community in wsha county that says that can't belong here it seems to be fitting in perfectly in other Heartland moso Oak Creek Franklin other Area Community so I don't anticipate that they're going to push back but we're going to be asking uh the questions so that we can move forward whether it's option A option b or option C did I answer your question I think at the very end you did but I didn't want to confuse you I'm just saying if you're going to go in I don't know how those work either you're saying we'd we'd want approval for the spot it's at right now nope you can't have it okay now do we have to wait weeks to start over and say how about the other spot
053in northwest or whatever you said or are we going in saying we want to know all the options where we can put it because then if we do have approval for uh both options I don't know how long it would take to find out what the savings is on fiber optics running 100 yards down the other way and and I'm not an expert maybe that's a couple thousand but if it's like 990,000 maybe we want to put it closer to save 90,000 if it's a huge savings yes I think you have to consider the Aesthetics of it all as well if you have that huge back of a scoreboard that close to the highway as Bo driving but I don't think it looks as nice me you throw a logo or something on the back
054of it how to try to dress it up but I do think the current location is the spot to go um as far as the Planning Commission and how we go in with options uh Tom and I can certainly talk about that with Kurt make sure we're we're ready for that meeting if there's anything additional that materially changes between you know getting the scoreboard putting in its current location we'll come back on March 17th and say here's what we learned on March 10th your call now where should we go next so we can bring anything back that um warrants more decision-making we'll bring it back to you guys any other questions all right there's a motion to approve the scoreboard and moving forward uh any more questions or comments nope all those in favor say
055I I those oppos say no motion is approved move not to unfinished business superintendent report yeah uh we are now at the end of February um and we got kind of an exciting time ahead for winter sport at the high school um with uh wrestling State Wrestling coming up this week with the tournaments coming up for the other sports uh uh in the weeks ahead basketball hockey uh gymnastics and such so uh really looking forward to to see what our athletes can do and we wish them well um also want to acknowledge the uh MHS Building Trades class uh they won the NextGen trades challenge uh a week ago remarkable accomplishment um uh we thank the teachers the students who were involved uh and Dustin for his leadership in there um and just one reminder
056we haven't had policies on the agenda for a while uh just give you guys a bit of a heads up to buckle up in March um if you uh are having a hard time sleeping at night I've got an aid to insomnia uh coming your way uh so expect that coming up here in the next couple of weeks uh just as a reminder our policy given that we're going to have a lot of them coming up we'll probably put them on the agenda for both the uh Committee of the whole and then the whole board and then there will be one or two policies that we'll have the whole board tend to in March if there's no questions or revisions needed and then we'll take that whole policy book then uh or not policy book
057but that substantial number of policies forward in at the April meetings then uh for approval so they don't all have to be read in a onewe period of time all right up next we're going to have executive session according to Wisconsin statute 19.85% the superintendent evaluation and school safety so looking for a motion to close the open session and go into executive session make a motion to move into executive session second motion and second roll call please Jason here Mike yes Jake yes Jim yes Dale yes Eric yes Carolyn