Mukwonago Area School District - School Board Meeting 6/26/23

001boneless meaning to call this meeting to order Monday June 26th 6 pm now we're going to do roll call Cherry's not here Erica here kale Vito here Jake here Craig here Crosby here Carolyn yeah and Cherry's here all right this is an open meeting and it has been posted um please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all please join me in a moment of silence okay we're going to move on to Citizens comments first up Aaliyah Aaliyah poplinski you'll have three minutes and Craig will have the timer go and he'll let you know when you have 30 seconds left if you can speak into the mic that'd be great well I

002don't think the mic is on green means go there we go good evening members of the board I would like to talk about policy 5514 I believe it is an unnecessary policy the children that would be affected by this policy have rights that you are trying to avoid by implementing unjust policy 68 of trans and non-gender conforming kids don't have access to Medical Care that would get them the gender dysphoria diagnoses you are requiring 52 percent of that 68 percent don't feel safe enough at home to get the necessary treatments in order to achieve that diagnosis for you sixty percent of kids who are not able to use their gender aligning restrooms have been found to commit or try to commit suicide in the last year 54 percent of kids have or do self-harm because

003of not being able to use their aligning restrooms this in turn cause causes other mental health issues lgbtq kids are in turn more susceptible to bullying and harassment this has led to more than 58 percent of them suffering from depression or severe depression these kids also report a whopping 71 having dealt with discrimination based on their gender identities these kids have rights rights that it feels this board is choosing to ignore there have been multiple studies done by the Trevor Project and that data was looked at and verified by the American Psychological Association there have also been studies done by UCLA that shows there has been no correlation between trans transgender and non-gender conforming people using their aligning restrooms and incidences of privacy violations and assaults going up none of these things have any correlation

004these children have rights rights that you are knowingly choosing to ignore and you are going to affect them horribly I've been told there is one of five thousand children that are either transgender or non-conforming in the school district I know that to be a falsitude I also know that there is more than 20 percent of your student body that is in the elementary middle and high schools that fall into this category of lgbtq and by putting this policy in place you would be affecting them and their mental health thank you thank you Deb switchick hi hi I just want to let you know that I talked with some other teachers and just for what it's worth they liked the bridges program with the math um with the social studies I would like to see a

005different News Channel besides CNN that the children are watching maybe like Newsmax if they have something um Hillsdale some other conservative company I did look at Pebble go I was not very impressed with it it had on their calendars no Father's Day no Halloween had a lot of other things that they celebrated and they also celebrated Beyonce and Selena Gomez's birthdays which I found very odd so if you look at that I would appreciate it um I was talking the sick bank I just had some questions how often can an employee apply for the district funded or District expense extension just wondering if anybody's looked at that I think the teacher's pay should be comparable but have you also compared it to other professions besides just other districts the boards okay this pain of student

006teachers does that make them employees just wondering and I would have rather seen that money go towards retaining teachers um and also to get into consideration the free clinic that the teachers have should be also included in the thought process of raising Teachers Pay thank you anybody else wanna we pulled this like a minute or two early anybody else want to make any comments my name is Stephanie cerniglia I made a Citizens comment at the last school board meeting so I'm just going to keep this rather brief it is that we cannot reduce the protections federally given to one to accommodate another we can make new accommodations also that this affects my children and they have said it when I ask them very plainly how would you feel they would not feel comfortable there's different

007parts very Elementary in their description of how it would make them uncomfortable that's all thank you thank you anybody else okay citizens comments are closed we are going to move on to presentations all right just give me a second here while we get the screen going on so we are going to present here I'm going to look to uh bear with me for a second here guys I got signed out let me just do this very quickly we're going to go through our facility results of our facility study that we most recently completed at Claritin at the end of May all right well Kurt yeah do you want to come up there and grab that uh spot there Clint anybody else that wants to come to the table there so as you guys all know

008Kurt Weibel house and Clinton selly who have been working with us for quite some time uh in these efforts here uh I will bring you the clicker here then we can pass it back and forth let me just give it a start here foreign thank you Tom all right uh presentation we're going to go through really two three uh primary goals that we want to hit at this presentation one is we went through the community focus groups in May in April and May so we want to recap that for the board what we heard from the community during those sessions uh second item is from those sessions from the board's discussion last fall in summer and really going back all the way to July of 2021 is our first meeting when we met at Big

009Bend to start talking Master planning so it's really a culmination of all that put together Administration team has a base project plan that want to put a draft out get feedback from uh from the board and really preparation for a fall of 2023 survey right so that base project plan that's not a referendum plan that's a base plan for discussion for a survey to get more feedback that will ultimately take us if the board so decides to go to a referendum and the third thing we want to hit is uh talk through the timing between now and and December of 2023. I want to start before we get into the Community Focus Group results and feedback that we got is take us back some uh some new faces on the board that was not part

010of our October 2022 really exercise of prioritizing projects so I want to refresh everyone's memory as far as where we left off with the board back in October as we prepped to go into the community focus groups so if you recall there was an exercise that we had had whoever on the board was interested in in filling out a little survey outside of the board meeting to help prioritize and be able to critically think through the options again started with a ton of different options of of Master planning of what does the district need so if we think back to 2021 when we we first met at Big Bend we heard from the principal of what needs is this building in need we looked at it from a comparison of what is a typically an

011a new Elementary School have what are the deficiencies and so we did that at every building and and just talked through and just put all the ideas on the table then we narrowed it down and then October 2022 when the board prioritized we had three separate columns and we said if the constraint is dollars which is often the constraint if we had 120 million dollars to spend which of these projects would you support and then we said if you have 142 million to spend which of these products price you feel is the greatest impact for our students in our in our district and then the same thing at 172 threshold and then the next question that we asked um that uh we got feedback from the board was if you agree with these project priorities

012what do you feel the greatest tax impact would be supported from both your perspective and the people that you represent so this first question is preliminary maximum Target referendum threshold so back at that that time we had five of you board members that filled that survey out two people indicated that um likely it would support 142 million dollar project which is about a 50 Cent tax impact per thousand um and so those are all preliminary tax impact numbers um as that time has passed we've refined those numbers further but this was a snapshot in time one response we got was in between the 142 and 172 which was 157 one one person indicated that the likely uh would Target up project not to exceed that and another uh two responses as 172. okay um when

013we get to the when we get to the community focus groups we're going to be kind of draw some parallels to where you guys were at in October to where the community feedback that we got in April and May there's a lot of similarities the second uh piece from that board exercise was in that middle category where I said the constraint of 142 million dollars if that was the constraint where do you see the biggest needs what's going to be the biggest impact to our students and learning and staff and Community what projects would those be so um uh the five people that filled out responses the five board members that filled out responses um these that are on this list were indicated by three or at least three of the board members between three

014and five board members indicated these were the priorities back in October right at that time it was new Middle School um so I think everyone's been agreeing along the process that middle school is the primary focus of of uh these Master planning discussions and it was new Middle School versus uh renovated Middle School October back in October I think it was three or four people that indicated new Middle School was a priority at that threshold the second priority was bringing 4K into the elementary schools so um not all of our elementary schools have space or have adequate classrooms for 4K we use partner sites so that was a priority to bring 4K in another one was a section in elementary and Eagleville invest in some Capital Improvements at those two schools uh specifically the other

015schools weren't far behind we got two uh two responses in most of the other schools but uh section in Eagleville were indicated back then the next few items were specifically related to the high school so we broke down a few options um uh tech ed so taking Woods metals and Welding moving it to the auto shop or expanding into the well auto shop and taking the auto shop and expanding into the South gym um the next item was taking their family and consumer Ed we heard from Dustin a number of times uh our career Readiness coordinator of how our tech ed department has has used what was done in 2016 to 18 those that referendum and how that has just catapulted that program for for forward and um in their space uh they aren't able

016to uh accommodate the demand So a family and consumer Ed expansion the next item uh was take the print center and utilize it for a health clinic that option has since been pulled out of referendum planning and has taken and has moved forward actually that work is actually starting uh in two weeks um to take in uh the the board had moved forward with doing self-insured for our health insurance and that Health Clinic uh Renovations has started in a couple weeks with a plan to have that complete at the end of summer so um it fit in well with the overall Master planning discussions that we've been going through uh next one is uh old fitness center so it ties in uh really item uh d g and H all fit in together these are

017kind of domino effects of of if we're going to take the South gym over with tech ed and expand into there um we need to do something if additional space so indoor multi-purpose facility a large Turf facility that much like you're seeing Muskego do right now in other districts do um put a new addition on for that which would then free up space in the old fitness center and allow us to renovate that so those are the priorities back at that time so then fast forwarding now to April and May we had Community Focus Group April 12th which is a focus on middle school so Tom did an excellent job presenting Middle School Solutions uh the 26th was at Big Ben was an elementary Focus discussion and then the 10th was high school focused discussion

018and then on May 24th it was a summary of everything and really that was our that's where a lot of this feedback that I'm sharing today uh we got out of that that last meeting along the way we were getting feedback and that was kind of the culmination of bringing everything together on May 24th so this next slide on that last uh breakout session or last Community Focus Group what we did is is we put all the projects on the table and uh summarize them and talk through those items and and break out question number three asked a similar question to what the board was asked back in October of assuming you you support the projects uh and the priority of the projects where do you see um your level of of maximum tax impact

019or support that you would have so you as a taxpayer what would you be willing to spend in extra taxes uh some of you agree with the projects that are on the list and so out of the 37 respondents that that filled out that that questionnaire 19 of them said I would support between a 48 to 92 dollar per 100 000 of of uh property value uh which which equates to roughly 130 million dollar project the next uh category was 17 of the 37 indicated 84 to 128 which is a 150 000 project and then we had one that indicated uh a zero attacked impact um at a 76 to 103 million dollar project so it was a very supportive group I mean those those uh sessions that we had and some of you board

020members were at that which was great so for you guys to actually hear uh what people uh from the public are saying uh but I think you'd agree that there was a very supportive uh group that were there and people that were invested in the in the schools and wanted to wanted to see um uh us make some improvements uh the next item is uh breakout question number two some of the conclusions we came out from there we had 35 respondents there and we we asked them we put six different categories and we asked them to prioritize what do you feel is your greatest priority what's the biggest impact to the district if you prioritize and put them in order a priority so for example Middle School was a priority um it was one priority

021class elementary school was another category um Capital Improvements was a category high school multi-turf facility is a category and as was techy at a category and so 29 of the people that responded to this indicated that middle school is their top priority whether it's new construction or renovated Middle School 29 indicated one or the other indicated middle school as a top priority for the district right which confirmed where you guys were at back in October that middle school is a priority to do something with our Parkview Middle School and then three people indicated to Elementary School uh was was their top priority but overwhelmingly the middle school was was uh the top priority from that from that Focus Group and then dissecting and digging in a little bit closer to that question to the next

022question is we we said okay um if middle schooler was a category and inside that category there's two options that you have to pick one or the other if you're going to invest in a middle school would you invest in a new construction or would you invest in renovated and it's in the context of the constraint of there's obviously an uh not uh unlimited dollar amount because the the question after that was what would your maximum tax impact do so there is some constraints um that that they would understand that you can't just uh pick the highest cost option museums you have to pay for it yet as well but this next item uh 22 of the respondents indicated that new Middle School is preferred over 13 indicated uh additions and renovations to middle school

023so again taking back to your October survey you guys did confirm where you guys were at is in line with the with what this group felt as well any questions on that so far right then the next uh question and takeaway that we we took from the server that was filled out during that meeting is uh uh we talked about elementary then so middle school again was the top priority of this group elementary schools was the second priority of this group and I went to tech ed and Capital Improvements and then the multi-purpose facility and then the high school Turf baseball softball field so that was the order that that group uh ranked them in um 28 of the people of the 35 indicated A reduced 19 million dollar investment for elementary schools where a

024seven indicated a 5 million dollar investment so when we talked through the elementary school I'll really talk about uh early in this process we talked about three different scenarios one was an all-in we called it which was uh Bray Architects when they looked at in elementary our current elementary schools and they compared that to well what if we were building a brand new elementary school what would the program be what would be the types of spaces in elementary school would would have and layer dead on top of when the principals provided feedback when we did tours what are the spaces of deficient so the first category we looked at was an all-in we called it and that was between 79 and 90 million dollars to address all our elementary schools right as we went through

025this process the feasibility of of that um was was lower and lower as as Middle School was the priority became more of a priority the visibility feasibility of doing a 90 million dollar elementary school project and the middle school project it just wasn't there right so as we went on uh it whittled down to a 19 million Elementary project or a five million dollar or somewhere in between but those are the two numbers that we get feedback on the 19 million or the 5 million so 28 of the people indicated the reduced scope option of 19 million and seven indicated uh The Limited option of 5 million both of those accomplished the goal of bringing 4K into our elementaries um where we're taking sixth grade vacated classrooms as a middle school would be six through

026eight leaving the sixth grade empty in the elementaries allowing us with both of these options to re reallocate those sixth grade into 4K adequate size 4K classrooms so they both achieved that after I get through these results we'll get Tom's going to talk a little more about about those two specific options and dissecting a little bit further is something that we want to get reaction from the board between between those two options from this this small focus group of 35 respondents they indicated 19 him as an administrations weren't weighing through the pros and cons um we want to get feedback from the board if 19 million is the right way or 5 million and like I said Tom's going to walk through that in a little bit um and so the next uh slide then

027is I'm going to hand it over to Clint because as we went through the process we've been talking and the process has been fantastic walking through I mean when I say July of 2021 a lot of time has been spent along the way a lot of different perspectives that we've been hearing through this process which has been great because it allows us to make sure that we are looking at all different angles because when we get to a final this is where we want to go with the district we want to be confident that we've looked at all different perspectives and this was just another step step in that and so up until this point we've been looking at um new middle school and kind of categorizing what that looks like new Middle School is

028that off-site finding land off-site or is that taking our existing Middle School site and building on on-site so uh Clint and Bray Architects has put together a concept of doing it on site and we think it's got a lot of Merit that it works well there and financially it is a better if there's some savings to do it on site some of the listing infrastructure there to do it on site obviously the big concern with on-site was traffic flowing we feel we have a solution for that too so like Clint talk a little bit about the on-site new Middle School thanks Kurt so again the I think the focus group if you want to say kind of an aha moment was really kind of the realization that the existing site really could work I think

029we as a group I I think we recognized a lot of the challenges with the current Middle School site and and I think we almost kind of our first impression was to run from this location um just just you know we didn't want to kind of deal with some of the challenges of that site the busy intersection all of those types of things not only that but from building a new very large new facility on the current site and you know trying to avoid I think some some disruption but I think one of the lessons you learn is is that you know a short-term year to two-year heartache of building if if this is the right site is worth it right in the long run because ultimately we're making a 50 75 year decision for

030the community so if this is the right site there is no reason to run so just as a quick reminder this is a bit of a slide that we used along the way kind of showing what a new school would look like and it's it's not very great right it's just a a recipe for how to build a new school without kind of the vision of what this could look like but again we were looking roughly 235 to 250 000 for the new build we've come up with a revised estimated budget of 97.3 million I think that's pretty significant when we were looking previously at about 84 million dollar project for the current Parkview conversion Edition renovation versus what we were previously looking at which was about a hundred and eleven thou a million for

031uh for the new school that's a pretty big difference right I think and you guys struggled with that as we were looking at this you know that that that's a lot and we maybe are sacrificing other parts on the end of the project I think when we're getting much closer like this um it it it it probably swings the the opinion closer to the new school and again we saw that in the focus group as we look at this site again per GIS information and Andy if you believe this to be right the entire site including Clarendon district office and Parkview is 36.9 Acres so um so again if we were to say what do we what would we want in an ideal scenario to to build new to to start fresh usually for middle

032schools the recommendation is somewhere between 20 and 30 acres for a middle school and then roughly for an elementary you'd probably want about 10 to 15. again there's many many schools on much smaller and there's some schools that are fortunate to be on much larger but as we look at the site and what we think this site could adequately accommodate there's again there's no reason to run from this site there there is space here um so then the question is how do we do it so what we did was we took uh comparable oops I really messed that up thank you Tom mm-hmm we took a comparable project so the yellow blob that you see here is actually roughly the footprint from a middle school we are will be complete in the next month up

033in Oshkosh so it's a little bit smaller than what we would be building for Mukwonago this is closer to a 800 student 8 to 900 student middle school and you guys are looking again closer to 1200 um but taking this footprint because it would very likely there's a lot of the similar you know gym sizes cafeteria sizes music a lot of similarities um the the the classroom portion here is a three-story so one story per grade level this middle section is a two-story and then this section is a one story with again gym music and band and what we just wanted to do is test fit how this could work so um hopefully your eyes are good but you can see the outline of the current uh Parkview Middle School at a bit of a

034angle here so so that's where that would be and this would really allow us to build pretty much the full extent of the current building as well as all of the parking without with again with some disruption in heartburn during the construction phase but we would not be impacting kids and and staff within the building we could do this work between the two facilities but Clarendon district office and create that that new facility at the end of the day we would again build it between it leaves us with with quite a bit of Green Space to to do a track possibly to to do a baseball field or or more but we we have really adequate green space at the end of this I think the other great benefit to this is the possibility to

035create a shared bus drop-off situation again Mukwonago is pretty unique in the large number of buses that you have at any one of your buildings so we'd really kind of employ a similar strategy as we have at the high school where there would be parking all along here and again whether the the cars would or the buses would go out and and only right turn out onto the road on this side or we would again potentially have some flexibility that maybe they come through the parking with some reconfiguration and you know of playground and space over there again we would have to kind of determine the best scenario for that um parent drop-off we would create a nice Loop the red is to denote the the loop for the Middle School parents and then the

036blue would be the Clarendon parents which would basically um continue as they currently are so we think this works really well uh we think this is feasible we think this is the right site as we've been going through this process we've talked about the right site the benefit is being close to the high school and kind of minimizing the disruption of going a long distance between middle school and high school and as we looked at potential sites really I don't think any of them really offered a whole lot More Than This One potentially would we just have to be again mindful of the traffic and and we think we're pulling far enough away from the the um the main you know our main busy intersection here that this will work in a satisfactory manner all

037right yep all right so I'll chime in here and jump in on this topic for the elementary school so as Kurt said earlier we were looking at two options there was a 90 million dollar reduced scope option in a five million limited modification so with the reduced scope option we were looking at uh only additions where needed much less than the all-in option that we originally pondered um The Limited option is the limited modification excuse me for 5 million isn't asking uh to expand our walls in any way shape or form leaving the building Footprints as is but getting certain classroom spaces ready for 4K and in a couple instances like section and Claritin when there is locker room space that's unutilized or underutilized just turning that into classroom space so really just modifications no

038expansion taking a look at the 19 million reduced option the pros that we have for for this option is that this is closer to the all in elementary model so if you're trying to build the ultimate Elementary School this is a little bit closer uh to the all-in option versus what the five million dollar limited modifications does and the focus groups with the 30 some odd folks that we had there they supported this uh this option a little bit more than the reduced the five million dollar reduced excuse me limited modifications options the cons of the 19 million dollar reduced scope option is that anytime you start expanding the walls or building on a classroom it's a it's an inefficient way to grow your space so it's it's cost it's a lot cheaper to modify

039in existing space than it is to Pusher walls out and add two classrooms okay so in terms of the additional square footage it does become expensive on the next slide here I'm going to share with you some 2324 updated enrollment counts and at this time we've looked at our long-range population study as a key factor in some of our decision making while I do think that there is some truth to where that we will ultimately land as a community our current enrollment at this time isn't suggesting that our elementary schools need a major expansion that may change in the future I can't predict that but I'll share the data here on the next slide here um and then finally the last con that we have then so the larger investment that Elementary obviously reduces opportunities

040somewhere else so it's uh it's nice to consider everything but at some point you got to pick and choose what you can't afford and what you really need and setting your priorities so for the elementary school here if we take a look at the count of number of new students going back five the five uh this current school year 22-23 the a couple years prior and as we head into next year if we take a look at the number of new students that are coming into our district uh in grades one through twelve as well as the number of new Resident students so just excluding open enroll students and looking at the students who are moving in we spent the majority of our time attracting somewhere in the 200s you know at 244 students in

0411819 interest rates were a lot lower if you're seeking a house mortgage back in that uh back at that time rates are a lot higher now so you're seeing a Slowdown in the number of people moving in and out so we have a declining number of new students coming into the district at this time it just becomes a little more difficult and I'll share this on the next slide here when we look at grades one through six okay the number of new students we're currently seen at this time I just don't know if it's good Optics to be building your walls bigger and larger when this is occurring so in a sense here I think ultimately when we take a look at the five million dollar limited option here I think we're ultimately finding more

042pros at this time for this option so again the the pros here are to renovate the existing sixth grade classrooms that will be vacated as they move on to the Middle School and then we can turn those into 4K classrooms so really turning three classrooms into two and adding bathrooms this is a much more efficient use of funds that get added Space by just renovating underutilized spaces like locker rooms okay and then this also addresses the first step of the elementary school master plan and allows for the for the future enrollment so when the enrollment changes actually happen we can react at that time and what the work we do here won't get in the way of that so should an elementary school for whatever reason need an expansion or additional classrooms in some capacity

043the work here will not prevent that or get in the way of that in any way the only con that we could come up with the five million dollar option is that ultimately we are not getting to that standard of what a new elementary school should be like so if we were building a new elementary school today we'd make them look different than they currently are do they work absolutely they work could they be better sure um but if we do this five million dollar option are we going to still meet the needs of the kids you bet we would all right so from there that takes us to the high school discussion do you get I'll let you just back up any questions on the elementary info I just shared we good okay so

044talking about the high school right now um and speaking with Dustin Layman here about what he ultimately feels uh because a big component of this is the CTE program and potential expansion uh in speaking with Dustin and all things considered on his end his priorities are to move the auto shop to the South gym and then to take that vacated auto shop and expand his Building Trades courses constructions Woods Etc at this time he feels those are the biggest impact All Things Considered with all the other competing priorities we did spend some time talking about about our culinary arts programs but given the other priorities we don't want to pursue an expansion of our culinary classroom space at this time if we do find a permanent solution for our 18 to 21 year old program

045and we can get those students for those three years taught in a residential setting which is preferred for them to learn life skills get them out of the basic School setting that they've been accustomed to the majority of their lives and and acclimate into you know a life after school setting if we can find a permanent solution for those kids they would vacate room 124 which is a room about the site Andy fair to say is about the size of the room we're in right now foreign has a vision on how we could use that space to expand uh at a future time but right now not a priority he would uh recommend All Things Considered all right Kurt I got this one right all right thanks so uh the capital Improvement discussion we talked

046about just the various needs throughout the building all of our buildings here and we take a look at our 10-year Capital plan you know there's over 30 million dollars of things that we will eventually need we revisit each and every one of those projects that time it up correctly we squeeze as much meaningful life out of a building be it the roof the boilers the chillers whatever it might be without putting the that building in Jeopardy in any way and when that project comes due we do it we have to use our existing operating budget which historically as as we all know we've talked about this a lot here one of the lowest in the state for 30 years so anytime we consider a referendum it's just worthy to consider perhaps uh what Capital Improvements

047could we add in potentially and what you're seeing on the on the screen here are the most important projects that would be coming due here shortly now when I present the budget here tonight for you guys you'll hear um in in fund 46 which is one of our funds that we can use to help our billions out we've included the Claritin project for roof as well as the other section of the high school roof that needs replacing so we are prepared potentially to do those in our existing operating budget however for consideration here if the referendum were to pass we could give ourselves the breathing room and not have to include those into our operating budget we could go either way but if a referendum didn't pass we got to do those roofs we're prepared

048to do those roofs if we must we've squeezed as much life out of those and uh next summer we got to start making moves on that those total up just under seven million dollars all right I can't remember Chris I still got this one all right thanks Kurt so all together we have a base project plan for 132 million dollars so what that consists of is the new Middle School that we just looked at with Clint uh on the existing site at 97.3 million the elementary school limited modification options at 5 million uh the high school tech ed expansion and multi-purpose facility for 22.7 and then the Capital Improvements just under seven million dollars that total is 132 million dollars so that's the basic project plan an idea that we're considering at this time okay

049so as we move forward into the financing of that because ultimately I think what you would hear and we heard this certainly at our community focus groups I want to back up for a screen here these projects are all worthy projects some feel just more strongly about some than others it just comes down to what is the tax tolerance of the community okay so I'll talk about that here in the next couple slides the way I've described our financing is just try to boil this down as simple as possible it's no different than paying off a mortgage on your house or a monthly payment on your car whatever it might be what we're aiming to do in the first bar on that chart on 2324 is set our our referendum tax levy and we'll consider

050that know the Baseline year so whether we looked at scenarios of seven eight or nine million dollars that we would be able to Levy come this fall and then we would lock in at that for 20 years thereafter okay so each of those various dollar amounts we use those kind of in conjunction with where we thought the state budget was going what are local property our operating tax levy was going to be because at the end of the day we want our referendum tax levy and our operating tax levy to be at 31 million dollars this fall okay so we presented three options here okay the one on the far left is if we had a nine million dollar tax levy and a 21 million dollar operating Levy so the operating Levy is in Blue

051on the far left the Orange is the referendum tax levy just above there all three options here are totaling 31 million dollars which represents the two percent decrease from last last year's tax levy so as the op as the Blue Area increases from left to right as it grows from 21.8 million to 22.8 million to 23.8 million those are the range of values we thought our operating budget might land so as that operating uh that blue area goes up or down the orange area goes up or down so as we enter this coming year we're really just looking to set those Baseline tax levies so that we can then walk forward into the future consistently for 20 years at those levels all right so the far left if we Levy nine million dollars in the

052orange area in the far left this fall and continue that on for 20 more years we could do a project totaling 103 million without increasing the tax levies from the levels we set them at this fall if we did the eight million dollar scenario in the middle we would be able to do it 89.5 million dollar project with no increase to the to the referendum tax levy for the next 20 years and then we have the seven million dollar referendum tax levy on the far right and if we did a seven million dollar Levy this fall and then continued that for 20 years we could do 76.1 million dollars a project so we're just trying to paint that range of values of where things might go so here's where the curveball comes in I never

053saw the state biennial budget coming out the way that it did it creates a challenge here it creates opportunities but also creates some challenges in the sense of the referendum plan I've same information is on this chart I just added one more bar based on where I see us going right now I see that that are operating tax levy is going to go up to 25.5 million dollars this fall so in other words state government is giving our school district the ability to raise more funds for operating purposes but they're saying Get It from your taxpayers don't get it from the state we're not going to give enough money to offset the increase so with that pressure with that expansion in the far right bar in the Blue Area it shrinks what we can Levy

054for the uh for potential referendum debt so we have a 25 approximately 25 5 million point five million dollar tax levy for operating purposes and a 5.5 million dollar tax levy for referendum purposes the good news I would say is that in Prior decisions in saying the tax levy um we are able to Shield our taxpayers this fall from an increase they won't feel it we're able to reduce taxes and you'll hear that from me here when I take us through the next year's budget it does put a little more pressure on what a referendum impact might have okay so if that's what I do think we are going to land on is that the far right scenario if we did a 5.5 million dollar tax levy increase excuse me of 5.5 million dollar tax

055levy this fall and then we maintain that for the next 20 years thereafter for a referendum tax levy purposes we could do 54.1 million dollars of work without an increase to that orange bar so once we set that this fall 20 more years of that without increasing it does that make sense any questions all right so we just take a look at last year to this year you can see that last year that we were provided a lot more state aid which meant our I pushed our operating tax levy down so on the left hand side the Opera the blue area is small that allows for the referendum tax levy to be much larger as we look at the bar on the right that operating tax levy grows therefore it puts pressure on the referendum

056tax levy so as we look ahead here now a potential mill rate increases in what those mill rate increases would provide the majority of all of our respondents at the final meeting we had at Claritin indicated support for a mill rate increase in the range of 48 cents to 92 cents per a thousand dollars of a house's value or in other words 48 dollar increase to 92 dollar increase per 100 000 of a house's value so if we focused in on the uh no impact on the mill rate this fall and carry that forward we could afford an annual payment of 5.5 million which would give us a project size of 54.1 million dollars although that's a diminished Outlook from what we previously had that is still really good so while not all the news

057is excellent we're still I want to keep this in perspective we're still in a great spot if we did a 48 Cent mill rate increase that would give us the ability to afford 7.9 million dollar referendum debt payments this fall and into the future so there would be an increase now and that would give us the ability to to do our project uh totaling 85 million dollars if we looked at a 92 Cent mill rate increase that would equate to 10 million dollar annual payments this fall and then 20 years thereafter which would give us a budget of 112 million and the last question that we uh as we focus in on the overall project size if there was a mill rate increase of a dollar 28 we could afford annual payments of 11.7 million

058which would allow for the whole project to be completed so those are estimates at this time all the information I just shared with you we still don't know all the final details of the biennial budget a lot of what I have right now is in I like to think it's intelligent guesswork I think I'm going to be close to where this thing will shake out but there's still some time left where some things could change but I think we're approximately pretty close and in the right ballpark all right so Kurt I'm going to pass this one back to you or I'm sorry Clint I get to play the role of Bill Foster tonight so um uh Community surveying again this was a process the district uh hopefully uh recalls from the last time um the

059district utilized so we last time we went uh through a bigger citizens committee process and then School perceptions administered a community-wide survey again just a bit of a reminder that that's a paper survey that gets mailed out to all Resident mailboxes and the the residents then have the opportunity to take a paper version or a online version there's a specific alphanumeric code that they use so that people can't stuff The Ballot Box so to speak again School perceptions uh is a a has I forget their number I think have done over a third party consultant they don't really I mean they care that you get good results but they don't care if you guys build a new middle school or not so in terms of getting a great entity to represent and go through this

060process really again their their goal is that you get good good data on the back side of this the other part of this obviously is this is an educational opportunity for you to educate your needs out to the community they sometimes refer to this as kind of a an educational newsletter if you will and really what we're trying to convey is the need the solution and then the cost and for a lot of people for your non-parent non-staff people the cost is what's going to impact them the most what what can I mean these are all great ideas but can I afford um what Tom's going to do to my taxes is a question a lot of people have to base their decisions on good way to put it yep again and then we collect

061feedback to refine the process and then give you I think good information to make a consideration if you do want to go to referendum or not as Kurt alluded to um we think right now the the overall strategy will be to present a base uh project with a tax impact for this we can test some additional projects or ideas as as kind of alternate or add-on type things actually if you look back to the previous survey we did in 2016 there there was a series of questions that were asked really with no cost information do you we conveyed a lot of the needs at the high school you know cafeteria is too small auditoriums too small not enough gym space we talked through kind of all of those different topics got feedback from the community

062without any dollars and cents attached to it if they thought that was a good idea and then we actually did present a base plan at that time again a little fuzzy on my memory was roughly again I believe the 49 million and then we tested an alternate option for I believe it was 54 4 million which we got clear support for the base plan we did not get good support for the alternate so the the district that that time moved forward with that base plan the general idea is that that we will come back if the board likes going forward with this process will come back in August or September with a draft to review ahead of this going out to the community in the fall time so here's kind of a quick uh snapshot

063then of the timeline moving forward again that August September we would finalize the survey with you this would go out to the community then in September or October generally they like to have it excuse me open for three weekends we would get the results sometime in early November and then we would basically have um whatever time remaining in November and all of December to kind of make additional decisions uh deliberations and your final deadline to go to referendum is January 23rd we would recommend not waiting till the last minute generally we you know whether we can make that decision before Christmas or shortly thereafter that's usually kind of a preferred method because obviously following that then there's a pretty lengthy communication and informational campaign that goes along with the referendum what questions do you guys

064have at this time did we answer them all great can we get that presentation yeah I will update that and get that onto the board doc site Erica yes so if there if there's no major concerns with that base plan what that tells us is the uh admin team core team is that's working on this is we'll start having those discussions uh with school perceptions a lot of strategy that goes into the the survey to make sure we're communicating them clearly and so that'll start uh right away and then come back in August September right and if there's any refinements we want the board to look at that and make sure we're comfortable before it goes out um and and then it's kind of the last look at it before it goes out but but

065uh that would be the the next step for us to start talking through survey it takes a couple months this it because I don't know how much to say right now I mean if we're going to have another meeting where we discuss I'm in looking at your presentation um the proposed that you did does not follow what the committee does not follow the priorities of the committee and so I are we going to have a time to talk about that or is this the time to discuss it we could do it now and as well as July and August the summer months are what we have um to work with here so there's there's still time will look to use that time to have this conversation you started the conversation you had rated them one

066two three four five six and there are a couple items that were discussed at some of those meetings that weren't on there and so of the ones you offered some of the ones that you have in the final presentation are five and six and they really were looking at the elementary prior more than they wanted more at the high school I'm I'm thinking in just being at those meetings and listening to the comments that it was because their last referendum really focused on the high school so to focus more 22 million dollars at the high school level when we've just done that when the other people it's their turn I think that's I heard some of that conversation at some of those meetings and then when you got down to your presentation that's not what

067you brought out so that's yeah I think it's that's the feedback right now to tell us if we should come back with more detail because you you are a correct that focus group that we heard that the two pieces that that varied from you know the 35 or so that was at that last one one was they were supporting there's more people that supported the 19 million dollar Elementary and so that's you know with Thomas pros and cons so if if the board once they have further discussion about that and I don't think right now probably isn't a time that we can spend a lot of time just to have other things in the agenda but hearing that would tell us then let's come back and and dig in deeper on those elementary school because

068it is different what the focus group is um what what that feedback was and it was just a piece of layering on top of the other data between what's happening in the elementary schools right now uh what what that 19 million dollar options just remember we started pretty high level we started working our way down but starting to look at what does the 19 million dollar option look like specifically at Prairie View right it's it's a classroom or two classrooms that's added on it's kind of a it gets the additional square footage but is it the best square footage to add right now for does it restrict a future Edition when we do a future Edition are we tearing off a good portion of that we're starting to get into that level of detail and

069I think if if the the board at this point says well what you've heard from the focus group that that 19 million was more appropriate and now you're here you're hearing from the the admin team that well maybe that's not the best solution right now I think it would be appropriate to have a further discussion because we want the board to to weigh in on that and look at both perspectives and then the other piece that that varied a little bit was the the tech ed side right uh we started with on the 10 side what's what's the from Dustin standpoint in that and that department what's the ideal for the the master plan of the school and we put all those ticket items in in and uh in tech ed was supported very well

070um and and now as we get down to refining and prioritizing everything it's well is the culinary area um those are all all desires but it's a culinary area area more of a desire than the other so I think two of those areas are where we got feedback and and if the board's not um with a little bit of a presentation in time you had to think about it right now I think it would be appropriate to dig into that a little bit deeper before we we go to the base question right because the other thing is last time at referendum we had it was directed the directive to us was if you take the time to include your your community and then you don't listen to what they say you probably will not succeed

071in what you're saying so I mean again this is only the small group it's not the survey but so maybe at some point in the survey it would be like we did last time with the base and then the alternative one because yes I'm and I'm glad you said that because that is that is specific to the survey and and I can't repeat that enough right when we go out to survey and we get those results back uh history has shown if you follow what the survey says and that's that's the the percentage of population that you're getting back and that's why why when you get that information back it's reliable information so we want to follow the survey information when you look at the focus group right it's so for example we have 35

072people that put those responses in right not it's a small sample size we got good perspective and just the data that we put on the screen there's other things that that help massage the overall uh base plan but those 35 people we know there is more Elementary parents principles of that 35 right so a few people does skew that overall so it is taking that feedback that perspective layering on top what you guys know about the district layering on top of what the administration and and this process has to ultimately come to what should the community-wide survey say and that's the piece that that that result that we get back in the community-wide survey that's the piece that we definitely want to follow so Kurt I think it great job so far there's a lot

073that went into this I know that we are a destination District there's no doubt um I I think the low birth rates and and we're seeing other school districts absolutely have horrible uh um enrollment uh we're still doing great but I I kind of think that 19 million maybe too much for our enrollment dropping so much we still have positive enrollment but I think it's something we should talk about as a group for me there's sort of I think two themes with regard to the elementary are just overarching themes I think one of the things we kind of keep hearing over and over again is is do it right um if we're gonna do something let's do it to the best of our abilities and do it right and I think I think one of

074the challenges we see on the the 19 is is it's it's limiting flexibility in the future and I just don't again I I think our our opinion is you're just not getting enough bang for your buck in terms of it's not doing quite enough for those buildings so I I and I think for me the second thing is I completely agree with you we we asked the elementary to wait in 2016 and now we're sort of telling them to wait again so I I think as the financing piece of this starts to flush itself out and again we're not even exactly sure at this moment what anything is going to cost relative to the to the levy and so forth right now but as as this becomes a little more defined I think what maybe

075help is just the the general sense of okay when when is it Elementary's turn you know when when could we do something of significance to again get them their their time so those are sort of the two I think key things relative to the elementary for me I do think that given oh I'm sorry Erica my bad sure raise my hand go ahead that's all right do you mind clicking back a few slides to the tech guide so any of the options here yep that was it thank you sorry the mill rate increase which of these options or do any of these abandon your 0.2 percent goal on the mill rate do we so we we will do that this fall what we do thereafter will have those impacts so I think come this fall

076we're dead set on that unless you guys feel differently about it um and I'll again I'll be presenting that information here shortly for the proposed budget but I think we are in a position to decrease the tax levy for uh the fourth year and what we do then in 24 25 you know obviously the the referendum question how much money goes into that can you go to the uh can you go or I'm sorry Clint yeah there we go thank you we would have impacts there that you see on the far left column so once we go beyond 54.1 million there's going to be an impact it's guaranteed you could do a project totaling 54.1 million dollars and you wouldn't have a referendum tax levy impact you're basically going to lock in at 5.5 million

077every year and keep that on for 20 more but once we go bigger than that there will be a tax impact to answer your question Erica yes okay so what I heard says I know because I have more things that are detailed but again you like you said we have a full agenda so did I hear we will be getting together to discuss this with more details at a time earlier than the survey right I think that makes sense and I think we have time for that right we said October September I mean uh August September for the survey that we're targeting uh so if it's September and I think that even gives us a little cushion yet as well really we want to get our survey results back in in November so I think

078we're in good shape for the survey and I think it makes a lot of sense to come back and have a more focused discussion about this I guess I'm asking you so will you plan a meeting to have that discussion yes we'll work on planning another meeting so we can discuss it any other questions all right thank you thank you moving on to consent agenda looking for approval for school board meeting minutes for May 22nd 2023 an approval of voucher number 141 620 to 142 292 in the amount of 2 million two hundred twenty seven thousand two hundred three dollars and nine cents and receipts for May totaling one million 281 927.17 in discussion right consent passes moving on to Student Learning hey good evening um we have women growth and development the resource with

079the agreement that everyone was going to look at it a little bit more carefully and I am going to bring you back a suggested content that would actually where everything in it would align to the standards that we teach for human growth and development at seventh grade and in ninth grade so I'll be bringing that back in July I informed the board about the K-5 math pilot again we are going to be piloting Bridges I ready and envision K5 and did training for that recently we went over the pilot process for Mukwonago School District and just basically discuss that process I answered any questions that you had regarding that and finally just a reminder to you to make sure that you're coming in to look at the kindergarten materials if you want to see them

080Gail I know you've been in it took you about how long sorry yeah I went in and looked at read all the books and I was there about half an hour 45 minutes and I thought that they were really well chosen for kindergarten and that they provided so much you could do with it Hands-On and really relating to a kindergartner's world authentic and reinforce their literacy skills I just I really loved it but I'm a kindergarten teacher so so again they're on the table in my office whether I'm here or not the ladies in the front can help you find those all right any other questions when I called they said do you know about the kindergarten did you talk to oh never mind I will make sure I will re-emphasize okay thank you oh

081thank you for letting me know that I just had a question on the pilot process and I know we briefly touched on this in our last meeting but under year two It's the final step is the presentation to the board for action and I know that we had discussed that it's likely not feasible for us as a board to approve every pilot material but is there a better spot for this than it being the last thing because as we were told in the last board meeting we'd already spent a lot of time on it so we should pass it so I don't want that to be a reason why we would pass a curriculum I think a curriculum should be passed and it's Merit not the amount of time that we've spent on it and

082I'd like to know if there's a better spot for the board to be able to review those materials before kind of being strong-armed into a decision um so again we are we just were trained on the math materials so I'm going to talk math just because that's the next one we're doing and those materials will be coming for training probably within the next couple of weeks you can have access to them at any point in the next couple of weeks the three math books tell me the grade level you want to look at have access to those at any point during the process which would be through throughout the entire year or two it's never a problem for you to come in and look at those or parents if they are in a pilot classroom

083and want to take a look at the materials you know the questions thank you okay personnel Community Community Education update Stephen all right at the committee of the whole we took a look at the last year's offerings and we were able to take a look at the age groups the communities that were served as well as some of the individual programs that uh that are offered and how that information is distributed to the community sick Bank usage Stephen this is a relatively new policy came into effect during the 21-22 school year during the committee of the whole we had a chance to take a look at how this policy works as well as its usage over the last two years how often are staff allowed to reuse or use it multiple times we didn't put

084a cap on the top of it it's about catastrophic leave if they're again if there's something that comes up it would be truly a terrible thing for someone to have to make that request multiple times but each of those times that the request would be made it would come to the Director of Human Resources and we would review it starting teachers salaries all right again during the committee of the whole we had an opportunity to look at the Mukwonago starting salary relative to our competing hiring districts and where our staff Falls relative to the uh their salaries and years of experience unique for tonight we did put together a graph taking a look at salaries of Mukwonago teachers over the course of their career versus the the county and then also provided a a table

085outlining where the differences between Waukesha County and Mukwonago in regards to salaries at the start of a career 15 years in and then 30 years in and so what we saw was it's about a six thousand dollar difference that Mukwonago Lakes are competitors so I think we have to address it sooner than later that's my opinion um is that is are we going to talk about the next Committee of the whole I don't think it's on the action that is it is on the action today no it's in the uh executive session executive okay gotcha sorry that's all I have then Stephen anything else no any questions thank you very much damn all right so we're gonna take us through it I know you are so yep yep someone take us through the budget here

086and uh budget and tax levy ultimately what I'm looking for you is to take action on this later in this meeting to approve one and the other um as I said earlier we're in a spot to lower our tax levy which is a great thing to uh to be able to tell the community um and then I we're looking for your approval on the budget so um I posted our budget booklet and I'm just going to walk through a few key things okay so the tax levy summary for our preliminary budget this is what we use for the annual meeting in this column here is what we're looking at for our tax levy so as we said earlier with our operating tax levy we are increasing this amount really by four million dollars that's the

087pressure that's put on due to the increased funding that we have access to it just the question or the concern is is where is this money coming from thank you Madison for giving us the increased funds I wish that they would have given the additional funding through state aid and not from our taxpayers um so it's kind of uh it's as the sword Cuts both ways I guess correct here you're seeing our referendum tax levy here from 23 20 22 23. to 23-24 it decreases there from 9.5 million down to 5.6 this flexibility that we have right there we need to Levy at least 3.1 with all these fluctuations that we have the bottom line is we are keeping our taxpayer shielded from feeling any type of increase this fall and if we weren't talking

088referendum of any sort we could do this indefinitely forever so we are in a good spot um you can see our taxes are going down by there's the 0.2 percent if this is an assumed value if our property values grow from 4.7 billion to just short of 5 billion that would be a 644 million dollar increase in the community's assets which is a five percent assumption we'll learn this value shortly but then in terms of the mill rate our mill rate will drop from 653 to 620. 620 would be the lowest mill rate in our District's history all right so that's the tax levy is there any concerns there right now about what we have I think it's you're for the strategy so we're going to stick to that unless you guys want to direct

089me otherwise in terms of the budget um so here's the budget and this is what you would ultimately be passing here um you'll be doing this twice once for this we'll present this at the annual meeting and then we'll do this again when we do our final budget when the known variables become finalized and off we go so we have our various funds here on the left hand side so let me just make this a little bit bigger here if I can all right the most important to funds are fun 10 and fund 27. truly these are operating budgets okay and in some way shape or form fund 41 I'm sorry here let me just I'm going to grab 10 27. if 41 and 46 all come from our eleven thousand dollars in funding per

090student so as we take a look at our starting fund balance this is an estimated fund balance where we're going to be next week I'm projecting forward through how this year is closing out I think we'll have 20.1 million dollars of fund balance available that is a snapshot in time our cat's position as I've shared with the finance committee earlier this year at least a few times our cash position goes up and down tremendously because we get all of our tax revenues right after you know July January 1st when people pay their property tax bills for the year there any fast forward to November and our cash position looks much much different but we put ourselves in a position where we avoid short-term borrowing it's an unnecessary expense that avoid it if you can and

091we are just the snapshot as of July 1st puts us at 20 uh 20.1 million dollars here you're seeing a balanced budget and this is what we talked about the last meeting that our our revenues and our expenses are balanced I'll talk a little bit more about what goes into those expenses here and I did give you a budget highlight sheet that I handed out here before tonight's meeting started but we are balanced in funds 10 and funds 27. I'll briefly just walk one by one here you see we have a balanced budget for our donations donations come in from various number of entities our ptos donate to us and typically our Don our money in is going to equal the money out the donors will give us dollars that are you know restricted to

092a certain cause in which they are donating towards and we always honor those wishes if we don't have any budgeted uh if there's no receipts and donations that come there will be no expenses so the revenues here will almost always match the expenses here fund 27 gets about three to four million dollars of funding and then they'll get the other seven million dollars from a transfer from fund 10. so you can see I have a note 6.3 million dollar in front transfer from 10 to 27 so in a sense 10 and 27 Are One Fund uh for the most part but we just segregate those special ed expenses so we can track those accordingly and report on those School Board doesn't have any uh any school board related debt most debts are issued through a

093referendum but the school board can take up to a million dollars a year in repayments and take on those debts but then you would have to carve that out of your eleven thousand dollars per student there are no debts we prepaid this off a few years ago we're in good shape referendum debt here and I'm just going to change the view here for a quick second here maybe that looks a little bit better there we go referendum debt we have a 6.1 million dollar balance there we can use that money at any time the prepaid debt we did do this this past year for 1.5 million dollars the year before that for five million dollars so we are in a position to continue to do that uh we have uh a revenues of 5.6 million

0945.5 million of that is through a tax levy and then there's a hundred thousand dollars of Interest earnings we have the minimum payment which we can look to adjust in October and take final action next May so this is just the minimum amount at this time but we will look to revise that and put that into our overall strategy our Capital expansion fund so we proactively always have taken eight hundred thousand dollars out of our ten thousand or eleven thousand dollars in funding per student and put some of that money aside we have an annual operating costs of six hundred fifty thousand dollars and then that gives us the leeway to put in 150 000 of of bigger projects that are one time in nature but we're in a if we take a look at

095fund 41 we have 3.2 million dollars available most districts would absolutely trade positions with us to be in to say those same things we just said right there so we're slightly adding the fund balance here I'm going to jump ahead to fund 46 all right Carolyn yes that uh Capital expansion that's where the roof for the high school and yeah so that's fun 46 right here they work in the same manner oh yeah so at fun 41 you get your ten thousand dollars in funding per student or 11 000 at the beginning of the year you proactively set some of those dollars aside fund 46 is that once the dust settles at about this time of the year and next month we're going to make a transfer to fund 46 is it a way to

096say how much of that 10 000 or 11 000 in funding do we have left and let's wisely set those dollars aside for known projects we know we're going to have I'm going to quickly skip ahead to the budget in fund 46 here let me change the view on this all right so here's the proposed budget here all right and I'm going to walk back to fun 10 in a second but you can see that we have a three million dollar um transfer from fun 10 to fund uh to fund 46. now we have a lot of things to talk about some of those things we'll talk about an executive session here until we have dollars allocated to increasing employee wages or things of that nature this is where we're putting the money for now

097we can certainly revise this and we will over the coming months based on your direction um we have 4.8 million dollars of projects we are going to tentatively move forward with because in the event that we don't have a referendum or it fails we have roofs to do so 600 000 of that amount is for the health clinic we've already approved that we didn't get to that work we're going to start that work it's not going to be done by next week Friday so we're simply carrying that project forward from this year into next year uh we have track and asphalt here we have previously approved 300 000 for a new track surface we are going to stretch the life of that into next year as we do with all of our capital projects and

098then uh there's potential that we might have to replace the asphalt surface underneath that we don't know that until we actually pull off the track surface that's a high water mark that I do not think will hit but it's there and then we have our roofs so again these two projects are for the most part carry forward from this PRI this current school year and then we have our roof at Claritin and our roof at MHS okay there's a chance to have these projects if they get embedded into a successful referendum they can fall off um we have more conversations that we need to have around this because you do have opportunities here and if I just scroll up here for a second and look at the current school year I do believe that next

099month I'll be back here uh in the month so the 22-23 school year technically can concludes June 30th the school board you have one month of retroactively make two final decisions do you want to move any money to fund 73 your post-employment benefit fund or do you want to put any money into fund 46 so if you find yourself with a surplus you can set those dollars aside and then when you develop your shared costs each and every year these costs are basically already included so in other words there's a lot of things if you have a one-time sudden expense of money and you're negatively aided at the tertiary level it's the only time I'll say tertiary tonight but when you have these dollars in fund 46 you're immune from that you avoid negative tertiary

100funding so we're proactively putting ourselves into a great spot okay all right so here we go I'm just going to quickly continue on here food service we have a deficit because we have to have one as members of the national school national school lunch program we can only have three months of operating fund balance on hand so we have one-time projects such as replacing dishwashers at Claritin and some other Capital needs in our kitchens where we are going to whittle this down by about four hundred thousand dollars here to be within the parameters of of the program okay our Student Activity fund much like our donation fund up here we have revenues and expenses that match each other students from activity groups or sports teams they sell gold cards or they fundraise in any way

101shape or form those dollars are then kept in a separate fund for them to have and to hold to use on themselves we don't take that money the kids work for it the kids get it scholarships uh same way money in equals money out or post employment retirement fund we're over 90 percent funded we have a actual study that's taking place right now to say this 5.5 million dollars in consideration with future liabilities is that enough money and I think what we'll find is that we are over a hundred percent funded I think we're good I think we're Beyond good and then our community service fund uh 120 000 of the expenses are for a two school resource officers and then we have some other add-on expenses that are coming through our Community Education Program

102with by and large the most important funds are balanced we have more conversations around our long-term Improvement fund and and how we manage this because I'm going to jump the fund 10 right now there's just a couple of things here let me change the view of this here and I'll make this bigger all right so as I go through this here you can see I highlighted in these blue squares there our prop local property taxes you're seeing the revenues are up top and the expenses follow in fund 10. our fun 10 tax levy is going up and we can counter counteract that and fund 39 by taking our fund 39 tax levy and dropping it down that is how we are able to maintain our our tax decrease from year to year okay going back

103to fund 10. you can see our 200 revenues with these are called Source numbers these are local things that are coming from our Mukwonago residents our our parents our kids in some way shape or form 600 sources are the next greatest ones that come from are that come from state government 700 sources come from federal government okay so really at this point I'm just simply looking at our remaining Esser funds we have nailed our game plan in that regard these funds have to be expended by the end of 23-24 and so we are in great uh great shape there altogether we have 63.6 million dollars and I conservatively estimate those revenues I think that will likely be more looking at our expenditures here we have our salaries here this is including a four percent increase

104for our that was our basic assumption we adopted a while ago we have the company benefits we were able to hold the line on our health insurance so our rates are not going up we uh we budgeted a little bit over five million dollars um last year and we're just a little bit under that due to the decreased participation in our health plan um but you can see what we have there all right and then as I just fast forward here we have 300 objects our purchase services so our utilities transportation is our net one of our biggest line items let me just go back up to that so trans object 341 we have 2.5 million dollars so after salaries and benefits that that's the third biggest line item all right so then 400 objects

105are for supplies or things that are five thousand dollars or less on an object by object basis calculators apparel library books newspapers Etc 500 objects are things that cost fi they're true Capital assets they cost five thousand or more dollars for each individual item so a lot of our technology and Hardware is in these budgets here 700 objects are for district-wide insurance for our property liabilities Educators liability Etc workers comp and then I wanted to spend a little time talking here I do think at the end of the current 22-23 school year we are going to find ourselves in a position where we'll have about three million dollars that we can proactively put in a fund 46 and show the community thank you for the dollars from this current Year's budget we are going to

106use this towards future projects we know we have you'll have the opportunity to reduce a future referendum question so if we had seven million dollars of capital items that we identified potentially in the referendum plan we could maybe pull those out and do those on our own more conversation should be had but we have that opportunity here likewise as we go into next year we may have a conversation here shortly about what we want to do for salary increases you could make this number smaller this for next year for the upcoming Year's budget you can make that number smaller um and then you can put more money into salaries or into anything you have opportunities here as a school board to figure out what would you like to do until we have more time because

107this information is just 14 16 days old we need more time as a board to work through this but ultimately we are able to make this number what we need it to be and then we have a balanced budget so our revenues equal our expenses those are a highlight of the funds I've given you a highlight that's on your on your tables there I'll answer any questions you guys might have about the budget right now again I think the important thing when a Community member asks do you have a balanced budget the answer is yes are you decreasing the tax levy yes there's more details this is preliminary this is what we show the voters at the annual meeting next month we make our final budget between now and then so this budget is not

108ultimately binding but it is a chance for the electors of the school district to say hey we like what the track you're on or here's some feedback for you make some changes so that's what the nature of the annual meeting is all about but if you're comfortable moving forward with this we'll we'll go and then knowing that we have a final budget you have to continue to produce in July August September and finalize in October all right any questions think we're good okay all right moving on to action items appointments resignations and retirements for appointments we've got Haley Toman Prairie View special education teacher Victoria Cummings Prairie View fourth grade teacher Michael Johnson MHS business teacher Amy Keller limited term reading math interventionists and for our resignation of graduates of Caldwell theater manager and technical

109director this will be effective August 31st I'd like to make a motion that we approve these appointments and resignations second we have a motion in a second any discussion all in favor say aye aye aye all opposed say no motion passes moving on to Neola policies for Neola policies We examined several policies at the committee of the whole and in the memo prepared for this evening we went over the changes that were suggested probably the most pertinent was the 8510 Wellness in terms of what would happen if the non-discrimination policy were to not be accepted as part of part of the policy I did follow up on that we would lose Federal funding amounting to about nine hundred thousand dollars per year and this was noted on the our administrative review for 2223 and in

110addition for for tonight the staff wellness policy Wellness language was removed from this from the 8510 and I also included the staff wellness policy to see how that language is was uh formerly included there foreign moving uh I like to move to pass the Neola policy updates I'll second we have a motion in second any discussion on various AI opposed say no motion passes moving on to Extended field trip from MHS dance team so um this was putting the agenda but I think we voted on it we went back and forth I think we did vote on it at the committee of the whole meeting decided we'd push things through a committee of the whole that involved field trips so sorry about that no problem okay moving on to policy 5514 student privacy in restrooms

111and locker rooms I like to make a motion that we move to approve policy 5514 student privacy invest rooms and locker rooms second we have a motion in a second any discussion I would like to add an amendment to that I would like to add the word original when it's right after students and in between sex assigned at Birth so that would read to that end except and otherwise required by a law students shall use restroom and locker room facilities on desert property and at District sponsored events according to each student's original sex assigned at Birth correct I'm fine with that second okay we have a motion in second for an amendment to add original after students and before sex assigned at Birth do we need to vote on the amendment or yes that's it

112okay do right now so we have a motion in a second on the amendment all in favor say aye can I ask a question about that sorry about that um I guess I'm curious as to what maybe the thought the rationale behind adding the word original and what does it change prevent promote I guess I'm not following the goal with that addition I think it just tightens up the policy how much more original can you be but at Birth well California you can now change your sex that was assigned at Birth because you can now change your birth certificate in California so if in the state of Wisconsin the state decided that that was then allowed this policy would be put in place to prevent that if it were to happen correct do we have

113that sort of authority so I mean that would take some analysis at the time that a law was passed um as to what a local school district would have versus what the overarching state law but for the time being this would provide absolute clarification that we're talking about sex at Birth we need clarification to sex at Birth I'm just asking the board I guess I'm not necessarily opposed to the amendment I I'm not sure it's necessary I don't know that's why I'm trying to figure out is it not necessary I don't know I don't think so I'm kind of a cheery with the I don't know if it gets more original in the state of Wisconsin as our state law says because we don't allow in the state as far as I understand for your

114sex at Birth to be changed on your birth certificate so I feel like we're adding something that is a non-issue for why and then if the state would do something then we'd add the word why wouldn't you just do it now it's hard because I don't think it's ever going to happen I said that a lot since 2020 but proven wrong I I don't see an issue with adding it I've heard anything to add the word already it doesn't hurt anything it's not that it's not not worth arguing over I don't think anybody got any reason why it hurts any other comments or discussion all in favor to add the amendment of adding the word original after students and before sex assigned at Birth say aye aye all opposed say no I do choose to

115abstain I have to also choose to abstain okay the amendment passes now we're going back to the policy with the amendment attached I move that we pass policy I'll apologize for this 5514 with the Amendment added second all right we have a motion and a second any other discussion all in favor say aye aye aye oppose say no motion passes moving on to youth apprenticeship Consortium with Muskego Norwich School District so yeah we're looking just uh take the official board action here to recognize and establish our Consortium with Muskego Norway School District Carolyn you had asked the question at the last meeting about what the increase in funding would be I don't have your answer right now Dustin Layman's uh in South Carolina having a good time and I need to get with him to

116get a better answer to that I just know it absolutely increases our funding for this for kids who get industry recognized certifications and I believe that there is also more language in the state biennial budget that will increase if it's 1100 and funding that number is going to go up somewhat significantly and then in the coming by annual uh first year 23 24 and again in 24-25 so having kids who graduate with tech ed industry recognized certifications is being recognized by our state legislators in a very positive manner right now so I don't have an answer to your question but I know it it's I see no reason not to do this I'd like to make a motion on second we have a motion in second any discussion all in favor say aye aye all

117opposed say no motion passes moving on to approval of an architect all right so Kurt I'm going to ask you to help out and weigh in on this here uh if there's anything we lack here as we talk about this here right now so uh in our board packet to you we prepared a memo um on June 6 so 20 days