001of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, moving into the consent agenda. Um, I have a recommendation for you. Okay. If the board is willing to uh re vote on the consent agenda, there's a lot of minutes that are part of that, but the approval of resignations of personnel and the employment of personnel, I'm recommending we take that to close session. That's all right. Okay. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion that we approve the consent agenda except for resignations and employment. I'll second it. All in favor or is it that's an all favor? All in favor? I All right. Moving right into the calendar. All right. Thank you, Mr. Hamman, and good evening.
002Welcome to our May regular meeting. Uh our calendar as we were in the end of April slated with a number of activities districtwide. Thank you for board members and guests that have been joining us at our year-end concerts and celebrations. again sharing that same feedback uh tonight at 7:30. Uh that's our goal. Uh if all things go as planned, our community concert with our um show choir tonight, intermediate, middle school, and the high school will be performing at 7:30 if you're able and interested. Great show to take in. Um the calendar notes, our upcoming meetings um through May. Uh we'll talk about graduation a little bit later and uh we're near June with our final day of school on the 5th of June. Any questions on calendar? Okay, it says 7:00 in here 7:30. We
003got moved back to 7:30. Yeah, moving back to my monthly celebrations. Yep. Thank you again. uh celebrations. Looking at the uh noted individual, our students from our elementary and our intermediate middle school. Congratulations to all students recognized for character traits uh that represent who we are as the school district of New London and students within their respective schools. Well done and keep up the good work. into uh my monthly report. Uh the month of May, uh this is the time of year where we uh make it a point to recognize uh our staff that are leaving us via retirement. Uh Pete Machinsky, Melissa Porath, John Ruck Dashel, Stacy Ruck Dashel, Lenel Shoemaker. Uh congratulations. The board has approved them previously. Uh just one more shout out to them and potentially others that may be retiring
004this year. outstanding work and we wish them very well and also welcome back and as some teaching perhaps in other capacities to stay connected with our district. Uh second like to thank uh Evan Wloff who we got to meet um from October onward. Okay. And thank him for being the very first board representative. Uh tonight we'll hear from Charles Sloma, our new board representative. Uh, but thank you to Evan and taking that leap of faith to step forward and support that process. And I'm certain the board very much appreciates that feedback that you gave us and look forward to working with Charles. Uh, year- end celebrations and accomplishments. I touched on that with the calendar. Uh if and able, I encourage all board members and community to take part of our spring uh events that
005are going on from uh senior awards which will be going on next week to our culminating event of what we do with graduation on um the following Wednesday. Uh looking really forward to that and it's a showpiece event of what we do as a district and how we all work hard for our students to be ready to take on the world. uh our B212 extra degree of effort um is Mr. Joe Grenzel. Um as I've shared in the past, annually uh the New London Area Chamber of Commerce started a recognition of distinguished uh educator school personnel recently about three years ago and uh you can see some pictures there and uh hey Mr. Grenz is looking good in that picture there with the rest of uh some staff from our district. Uh Joe was recognized
006for his distinguished uh B212 extra effort helping out others with not only within our school and community. Very welldeserving uh individuals recognized in the picture were nominees at this year's event. Um and it's a great uh award for Joe and as well recognitions for individuals for their best efforts and staff. FFA banquet which was on May 4th. Some board members were present there. Thank you for that. Just another culminating event. uh at the time of publication, that's where we were with some of ours, noted that uh Crystal Rusoff and her team did a great job with her leadership for students uh to highlight the awards that were recognized and what's to come at state and the national convention, an outstanding year in recognition for them. And then lastly, uh talking just a little bit about
007uh the staff appreciation which was last week. Um you may have heard or been part of or thanked as well. Uh but uh congratulations to all teachers and staff and their efforts as we recognize them from food trucks to a few other uh thank yous that were sent out from the district as well as parents and and guardians and our principal team did an outstanding job uh creating that appreciative environment of our staff this past year. So well done. Any questions for me of my report? Um, Scott, yeah, I do have a question. Oh, no, that's on that's on the business services. Okay. Um, do you want to talk about really briefly New London being spotlighted at center stage uh awards at the PAC Saturday? Sure. Because everyone is invited. We were talking about our
008radio stations today and um Kevin Spindler. Yeah. And then two kids from New London for um going to New York in June are up for Absolutely. finalist. We we uh yes uh we Kevin and the students will be recognized for their best efforts which is a a regional type um accomplishment within Kevin was recognized as the I might say this wrong but the educator of the year if you will for within that realm of the fine arts and and coral u maybe talk about that tonight a little bit at the uh at the concert he did on Monday night uh as well when they had their concert there But it it is an accomplishment. It's a from our musical and our stage hand that was recognized for exemplary work to characters within that musical exemplary
009work and then Kevin's leadership throughout an oversight of that. Well, and I know we've shared on social media, but like literally the whole like anyone can attend on Saturday at the PC. It's at 7:30. Thanks for sharing that. That's awesome. Thank you, Joey. You're up. Okay. Good evening board members and committee members. I have two things on the agenda tonight. The first is just to note that we were unable to have a facilities committee meeting between our last board meeting and this meeting to continue to talk about the potential stadium project to bring water and bathrooms to a concession space there. That's going to happen over the next few weeks. Just know that we keep trying to find a solution to that cost effective as we talked at the last meeting. Uh since it's been
010on a lot of our agendas, people keep hearing about it. There's potential that people might want to make a donation to that project at some point. There's nothing for certain yet, but just know that there's still continuous discussion about it. We will have it at a committee meeting and then bring it to a full board meeting uh as we know more information. My second topic is the state budget deliberations have begun. You'll see that throughout the news, whether you're subscribing to a list serve or just watching outlets, they are deliberating what the 2527 state budget will look like. Uh, one of the the notes that I put in there is we are part of the association for equity and funding and they have continued to lobby joint finance and their constituents to and their legislators
011to share how impactful a low revenue limit ceiling increase will be. Again, uh the one of the chairs of the committee, every one of his school districts would benefit significantly from that low revenue limit increase. Our local legislators are all but one school district is right at 11,325. So the the momentum for that to potentially happen, whether it's spread over the two years or even getting closer, is really important for the long-term sustainability of the school district. Um we feel that that uh coupled with some equalization aid is a really good uh factor for our budget in the long run. But as we know that it is just discussion and negotiations right now and deliberations and whenever we hear anything we will bring it and share it with you as board members or you have
012questions on something that you heard and you would like more information and how it directly impacts London, please let myself or Mr. know we'll be happy to get back to you or put it on an agenda topic because it is a really important discussion and we want to be able to arm you with good knowledge if someone is asking you about it or if you choose to communicate with your legislators. The Association for Equity and Funding has templated letters that say you represent the school district in London. They are at 11,325. If you want to bring them in within 90% of the state average of 12,650, you can support um this initiative. But they've all received that. They've all heard that. And I know when you had your legislative meeting about a month ago, it
013was talked about how revenue limits, you know, help the district. Does anybody have any questions on the two topics? Chris, you have more or less a comment. um our our senator and our state representative from our area held a listening session in the town of Black Creek at the town hall on Monday evening and uh um our senator uh Rachel Cabrell declared uh even before getting into the topic of education that she is 100% behind the revenue limit increase for low-funded districts. And that was everybody that testified on education there. There was people very liberal and people very conservative. I'll let you guess which which one I fell into. But uh uh the um uh everybody that was talking about education favored that. Uh but she declared it even before she heard from people. And
014um uh I think that's a good thing. She's not on the education committee, but um but I think uh it's good to know that there's a a senator getting getting out in front of that from our area. So, thank you for sharing that. I just had um one other request. Do you think um as you give your director report every meeting, we could just keep the like an ongoing update of the water and bathrooms and concession just because I don't want people to think it's going away. just because we voted option A down even if there isn't an update like maybe just I just like to keep that on the radar every time we meet in your report. Thanks Candy. Good evening board. I have four items on my topic summary tonight here. Um my
015director's report. The first one is that CISA 6 gave us another grant. Um, so we received $700 from CISA 6. It's called a smart thinking grant. Um, it was written for um the people service department and what it's going to do is provide materials for our child plan process. The board may remember we used to do child development days only twice a year. Now we're doing it eight times a year, every month starting in October going throughout the year. Um, so we needed some additional materials to support that and season 6 gave us the grant for that. Then we had another donation come in. Um the Lions Club this time made a donation to the district. Um they gave us an AED and an AED cabinet. This latest um acquisition of the AD, the board
016knows we've been receiving a lot of donations in that area lately. This one is going to be placed down by door nine of the high school which is on the south end of the high school building um near the fine arts end of the building. So we have we anticipate one more potential donation coming in with AED. So when um we get word on that, I will give you an update on that. My other two um summaries here are about testing. So our bilingual department finished access testing. Um um we anticipate the results. Uh our teachers already have the results, but we're not able to publicly share them out yet. But I just wanted to give a thank you to our bilingual department. Joanna Mertz, Jordan Thompson, Naen Grundy, Kristen Brock, Anna Rosas, and Kelly
017Mongia completed that testing and we had a number of students graduate um from the bilingual program. So, as soon as I can share that with you, I will give you those exact numbers. And then the other testing that just concluded was dynamic learning map testing that runs concurrently with the forward exam window. Um the kids that take the dynamic learning map are the ones that have the most significant cognitive disabilities in the district. So there were five of our special ed teachers that ran on that project process and that testing is concluded now and again as soon as I can publicly share the results I'll present them to the board. Any questions on that? Moving on. Okay. I'll uh share some highlights of director of teaching and learning. Uh this is a a plug for
018summer school. Actually today was the day that it closes. Uh but just a reminder that Mrs. Canva has been sharing the information of the enrollment numbers and that number is steadily climbing. They don't have a total right now. Um but it uh is shaping up to be uh decent enrollment for our summer school programming. Two other items that uh conversation has spurred the thought to recognize as well. Our district has gone through an amazing testing schedule as we talk about all the time. You know who we are and our students and how they perform academically. uh they perform every day in the academic setting and with classroom teachers um you know through assessments and subjectivity and in conversations at all times. Uh but we finished are in the process with our AP testing that's taking
019place up at the high school. Uh our students at the highest level uh demonstrating their accountability and and striving for that score of a three or higher. um no easy task and uh congratulations to those students and staff that have prepared them and the proctoring that have gone into that process as well. And then as well the one final uh assessment that's out there uh KA the I ready assessment is or entering that final window as well and that's one of our in-house uh tools that we use to gauge growth and achievement over this past year and our students are participating in that now and uh that information will be shared as with the board as well as our subgroup that we're actively working on to address student growth and achievement. So, any questions? Scott,
020is there a summer school enrollment up versus last year? I don't have that number. I've just seen the tallies, but I haven't compared it, of course, but I can look. And I'm especially interested in that third and fourth grade. Sure. Segment, you know, our kids that are not reading at third grade level signing up for that. So, they're all they're all invited, that's for sure. You know, and recommended for that. Um, but that we could break those numbers down as we get closer to the event. Thanks. You're welcome. All right. Moving on. Introducing Charles Sloma as our board representative, our board student representative. Um, good evening everyone. I'm honored to be chosen as the student board representative and I'm looking forward to working with everyone here to further student success for the next school year.
021Some things that I would like to highlight are, as Mr. Black said, AP tests are going on right now. We have a couple more days tomorrow and Friday. Um, just special thanks to the proctors, Mr. Mrs. Keller, and then also Mr. Eric and Mr. Shusler and all the other staff and teachers that have helped the students prepare for the AP test. And then also thanks to the students for working hard throughout the school year to be prepared for the test and then earn college credit to promote our initiative to be college and career ready at the high school. We also have a lot of sports upcoming for the postseason. We're wrapping up conference play for a lot of sports. Track this weekend has their conference tournament. Uh we're looking to do pretty well and we're
022hoping to do very well. And then other sports begin their um conference tournaments next year throughout the week. Show tonight, as it's been said, is the final performance. The year was very successful. I'm sure you guys all heard about all the success that we had. A lot of finalist late nights, but a lot of success that the group had. Just showcases what the students and then Mr. SK and Mr. Rambo have done to help everyone succeed in that group. Also, we have stapon assemble a couple weekends ago and that was a very big success. We had multiple events and many students that participated in that and some were nominated as some of the best performances of that weekend and a few even won awards highlighting all the success and dedication that they had to the
023fine arts. Hosenda also had state competitions and DECA had their national competition. There was five juniors and seniors that participated in that at Orlando and I believe that they did okay, but just the accomplishment of getting there itself is very good. And then HOSA nationals is coming up in June, but the state competition went very well. Um, multiple events went on to nationals. And then also, as Mr. I've mentioned teacher appreciation. We had that at the high school a couple weeks or last week, I believe. And student council put on a lunch at the end to just thank the teachers for everything that they've done throughout the school year to make the school and the community a better place. I think that's and if there's any questions, welcome to the board. Thank you. So board
024members, Charles part of that uh community production tonight, you may slide out of here if we get into uh business and whatever time you need to leave. Charles, please excuse yourself. Okay, I'm sorry. All right, moving on. New business. No vouchers. Oh, sorry. Vouchers and receipts. I jumped out. My bad. There were no specific uh vouchers to highlight for the month. There was one legal expense for the month. The one receipt I highlighted for the month was common school funds. We receive a one-time uh revenue during the year which offsets our purchases for library expenditures. So it's really a one for one match where you take the common school funds and you have to spend it either on books or libraries that are buildings or for software or databases things that are specifically used for
025activities and that is determined on there's amount per pupil that every school district gets in the state and it's based upon interest earnings from the bureau of commissioners and public lands. So that's how the money is generated from interest on projects and then that money is distributed that they have uh annually to school district. Any questions? Moving on. I'll make a motion that we approve the receipts. I didn't know on this one. Did we need Okay. And vouchers as presented. Sounds good. All that. Roll call. Katie Battton. Uh, yes. Mark Gman, yes. Nate Grezy, yes. John Haidan, yes. Holly Schwitzer, yes. Andy Thor, yes. Chris Martinson, yes. And then just read letter B for the receipts. Go ahead. I'm right. And uh just for receipts, we're recognizing uh receipts from the receipt register of May
0267th, 2025 in the amount of $721,64257. Thank you, Scott. No, no problem. All right. Unfinished business. First, well, no, nothing else coming up. Okay. Um new business, first reading of revised policies and administrative guidelines. So board members, in your materials, uh there's reference to three policies in this. Um one had been brought to the board and then asked to be revisited. So tonight's policies are the first reading ultimately. So there there's no action. It's just informing. Uh the first to comment on is the committee met on April 3rd to further review policy 852, the distribution of materials on school premises. on page 49. Um the only addition that was added um when it went back to the the committee was the noted items in yellow recognition of during school hours uh to support that process
027and protocol. The items that were struck through were part of our initial first presentation that the board received when it was presented earlier. Any questions on that? Okay. Any discussion? Any questions? Okay. All right. On May 5th, uh the committee met again uh to review policy 838, animals of school, which was asked to go back for um just revision and discussion from the the committee. Again, on page 50, you'll see the the guidelines where there was an addition made to a recommendation to change uh or add, excuse me, in the first paragraph, second line. uh student slash staff because indeed it does reference not only students but staff should they need or request a service animal for a specific um task or duty you know the American Disabilities Act that guiding you know seeing eye
028dog some type of animal that supports a purpose and process within. So it was recognition within that. The the other item is animals in schools and that the the process itself is geared around all animals in school. You know from classroom instruction as well as the service that are needed. That's very specific process that would go through to request that with the principal's recognition of the animal before it comes into school and then that communication protocol. any feedback on that? These wereformational only. No vote needed. And then the the third is uh and this was a new creation. So you won't see any yellow other than on the bottom where it says new. Um I brought forward a recommendation for the policy committee to consider uh therapy dogs in school. And this is something that
029the district already recognizes within, but there wasn't really a u yes there's framework and there's communication and accountability within but this puts it in writing okay for individuals if they are um interested or what whatever those processes would be and the reason why the district does recognize support that animals in school can be a positive you know social emotional uh learning as well. Um when we talk about uh therapy dogs and school specifics um it's brought in some expectations via the guidelines which we feel are well within our reason to ask and overwhelmingly uh the vast majority of these items are held to right now but we want it to be uh bring a little more specificity to that the noted part annually this process is recognized okay it's not one and done okay and
030it does as well give different expectations ations and proofs of liability. Um, and then ultimately exclusions should it not be going well and what does that look like if we find that that process isn't meeting the expectations of what came forward. You know, policy members of the committee, if there's any additional insight that I may have missed, feel free to fill in. I think this is well written, Scott, so you can do a good job with that one. Okay. All right. So, Any further discussion? Okay, moving on. All right, we'll bring that back at the uh next meeting. Okay, preliminary review of 2025 school fees. Mr. Mark. Yep. I'll start it out. Annually we bring forward the uh topic summary which recognizes uh various fees and programs which are associated with uh revenue generating funds
031to our district. Um like to say there there aren't any uh new items coming forward uh some adjustments which are noted in red. Mr. Uber will highlight those accordingly. Thank you Mr. Black. Uh so tonight is information only. This is what we've been doing the last few years to kind of just share here's where our fees sit. We try to have these approved uh in May. It helps with our handbook development and then also getting ready for the next school year. As Mr. Black mentioned, there are a couple fee recommendations that we have really in that red line versioner packet. We did type some information in the topic summary itself, but to go over a couple of the suggested fee adjustments could be to our school breakfast and lunch where you raise prices by 5
032cents for breakfast and 10 cents for lunch. Uh it is important to continue to remain competitive with our fees. We know that families aren't paying those fees, but with the increased prices to food costs and food service operation in general, it does help to increase those amounts annually to keep pace with the program. Um, if we would compare our lunch prices to other school districts and breakfast prices, we are on the low end of what our districts are charging. Doesn't mean we have to, you know, change it because that vicious to share. One other recommendation we're asking to change as well with the how we uh share the fee difference between um the elementary school. For a number of years, we've had it titled as K5 and that really goes back to when fifth grade
033was at the elementary schools, but now fifth grade has been middle school across the street I believe since 2009 right around that timeline. So we just left that feed. So really we had a hanging grade you know in a building that was different. So our recommendation would be to make all students who were in that school across the street 5th through 12 have the same fee for service. Otherwise, we have no recommendations of increasing your textbook and workbook use fees or to student parking permit fees or to co-curricular activity fees. Uh really no changes to the activity event revenue except for the note that Mr. Shear at one of his last meetings that he would like to pilot a gold fan application during the next school year where we would still sell our tickets to
034our guest but have the ability for people to pay online with their phone and work through a cashless ticketing process. So that's just something we wanted to note. We had that discussion at the board when Mr. S was here if you remember he brought that up. So we wanted to note that you know could be a possibility. And then the other note is lost lock replacement where we just charge the students issued a lock they lose it we charge them exactly what it costs us to replace it. So that's just noted the exact cost. Are there any questions of any items on there or something that we could do more research on to give you more information to potentially make an approval? Yes. Do you did we ever find out and maybe Mr. Soul was
035coming back? But like who was paying the gold fan fee? Like were we eating that dollar for every ticket for less revenue or were we charging our patrons an extra dollar? All of those could be options. The school district can pay for it. You could pass it on to the person who's paying for it. You could charge, he was giving me an example of one district just charges a dollar extra per ticket and then that's just part of the fee. So the person, let's just say that we're charging we have is it $5? Yes, $5. they could charge six where if the person's using the cashless the cold fan they could charge six and that includes that fee for that or we could still charge five and then the person pays the convenience fee. So
036really this it's really an alle cart for the district they could decide to pay the entire fee where then the revenue would be less than $5. But there are pros and cons of everything that we do. um he knows that it's important to if we're going to go that direction, where is the cost savings of doing so? Can we have fewer supervisors? We're touching money less. What are the positives of doing that versus the deltas and the cops? I think we discussed it last time, but cash would still be an option as well at the door. Yes. One thing that he shared with me that really the it's called go fan but it really could go towards a lot of things. It could be going to your pops concerts, your music concerts, your plays. It
037could go towards a lot of ways for people to pay for items. And we have them now for our students to pay fees, but we really don't have that option for our guests in a lot of cases. when they do have their play in musicals, they could go through I don't know the name of that program, but they could buy their tickets online and pick their seats. They could still use GoFan and do the same thing. From my understanding, co-an would really help us when we have a prom or a homecoming where ticket kids can purchase their tickets through that and if they bring a guest from another school, there's ways for us to then track authorize some of those exchanges in our dances or events we hold at the high school. We went to
038something like this at the Wolf River Theater Troop about three years ago and I would say easily 80% of our attendees use the used the card and and we we started doing it because people requested it like like four years ago. And usually it's the people who oh I'm going to let's go to the show tonight and they show up and you know they didn't have time either to go online or whatever and then they could still write out a check or give us cash but it's it's used that much so it's not anything foreign to people. Yeah. I don't mind having both options. I'm just so sick of fees like go buy a concert ticket five full thumb it's extra 10 bucks. I'm just saying like how you pay for that you know if
039it doesn't eat into our revenue but then right we make our patron absorb it. I mean, I think both options are fine. I take it we're going to have a future discussion on that with the actual fee per item all calculated out. I think it's important to just find out how it fits New London and then determine how we move forward with the fee sharing or passing on or absorbing. Good. All right. Future discussion. All right. Moving on. review and potential approval of 2025 graduating seniors. Board members, within your packet is a roster list of our senior class. All individuals are candidates for graduating um this spring. Uh as in the topic summary notes, uh students that do not fulfill the expectations prior to graduation will not participate or be part of that. Thus, they're
040not meeting the academic uh part. But annually it's a tradition where the board does recognize the senior class um with the graduating status through board action. So I'll make a motion that we approve the list as presented. Second. All right. All in favor? I ask. And this is just a reminder of uh the participation at commencement as well. Mr. He will be talking about that at our graduation ceremony next. I don't really need to read off the invite. That's just in there for information. Yeah, it's just uh Mr. Yorkie, you're uh all board members received that formal invite. There's any other uh logistical items you'd like to share with the board prior to just that next Wednesday is our senior awards banquet. Those of you that attended in the past, it was typically a twoh
041hour getting to be two hours and 20 minutes. Our goal this year is an hour and 45. We made some adjustments to how that program is going to run. So hopefully it runs a little quicker for people. If you would like to attend, feel free. Just come in the main entrance or door 9 is also open. Graduation the following Wednesday. I hope you can all participate. Andy being new to the board, board members uh sit up on stage if you're willing and help hand out diplomas. Anybody willing to assist with that, if you can show up by 5:15, park in the south parking lot, come into door 9. All those directions are in your invite. I'll walk you through some instructions for how the evening's going to look. Most of you are veteran at this,
042but I'll walk you through some specifics to the evening, some some changes we might have with diploma handout, but I hope you can make it. We have about 180 graduating seniors, we hope, in the next couple of weeks as they finish things up. If you have questions, feel free to to reach out to me. I think the plan is for you guys to let Joe Wilner know if you're planning on being there. We'll take uh and make sure we have a power for you and I'll reach out and give you some instructions on. Okay. Thanks, Brent. Quick question. On the program, are we going to uh list what students have opted in military service, their names? Yep. And they get recognized right at the start of the ceremony. Okay. Because I'm not I won't remember
043who did it, but I like to be able to hand the diplomas. else too. They'll be identified in the program. Thank you. Thanks. All right. Moving on. Recommendation to approve the press star as the official school newspaper. Do you have any This is an an annual process that the board recognizes, noting that we do have a local newspaper. We're obligated to recognize uh that. All right. Do I have a motion? I'll make the motion. Do I have a second? I'll second. All in favor? I any opposed? Review of potential approval of official district depositories and individuals authorized to invest district funds. So board members again uh this is an annual process where we recognize our our partners in banking business uh to support us with our financial endeavors from savings to short-term borrowing and everything
044in between. Mr. Bart. Okay. Uh there are no changes to the list but I'll go through them just to give some more information. First day Bank is where we have our general operating account, all of our activity accounts and where our food service receipts are deposited. The state of Wisconsin local government investment pool can be a place where we deposit funds in addition to our general operating account gives us additional protection for FDIC insurance if our bank cannot collateralize uh the the amounts that we have. The third one, the community foundation for the Fox Valley holds our scholarship funds that we do not hold locally. So there are some endowed funds that are there that families or individuals have either given or requested or deposited into the class. So that's when those funds are held.
045We do have one account there that is not related to the scholarship fund and that's for FFA fund. The FFA has a fund there that if there are large timber deposits from the school force or anything else that want to deposit in, there's a fund there that they can have a withdraw withdraw funds from or add funds to. The fourth one there, the Midwest Institutional Trust. Each year, the board goes through an annual review of the investment policy of fund 73, which is other post benefits. So, you'll have that action later in the summer, but this is the depository of those funds. The fourth one is American Deposit Management Company, which is an option to put fund 46 funds in, which is a long-term capital improvement fund. Fox Community Credit Union in London has the
046racing for education account there. The WHISK or Wisconsin Investment Series Cooperative also has the ability to put funds in for our general operating account where we could potentially put funds there to earn a larger rate of return if they have a CD or something that would make sense. We don't use that fund very often because we need the funds for cash flow, but there are small amounts of funds there and at times it could be a better option than ADM or American management company. Whisk is used by a lot of public entities in the state whether the last one bank is where we have those fitness center donations being held at this time. Are there any questions on any of the accounts? Joe, you mentioned that there's interest possibly in donating to the athletic facility
047thing. Would that be something you would contemplate uh at the um Wolf River Bank where the other uh fund is for the uh for the wait room? That could be an option. We also have fund 21 which is our gift fund and that's also at first aid bank. So our gift fund could be an option as well. Uh it just depends on the process. If we're trying to segregate then it makes sense to have account segregated specifically for a purpose where our gift fund sometimes rolls up and if somebody donates $100 for a project we can hold it there for a time. So the answer is yes depending on you know if we started a new venture it might make sense to do that. Any more questions discussion? All right. Do I have a motion?
048I'll make a motion. Have a second. A second call. Mark Gman, yes. Hey Grundy, yes. Chris Martinson, yes. Uh, Holly Schwitzer, yes. Andy Thorp, yes. Batten, yes. John Haidman, yes. All right, moving on. Review and potential approval of four-year-old kindergarten service agreement. So board members, this is a process or a conversation that we address annually uh with our 4K collaborative. Um this year, this next year, excuse me, we're going to have one last head start uh which had been part will not be offering 4K um during the academic year. So, our partner that we're working with is daycare center in New London. Um, and this supports our youngest learners, our 4K learners, uh, for an opportunity to receive 4K instruction, uh, in a very similar way as they would if they were on campus at
049one of our four elementary schools. So, just looking for approval to continue on with that 4K collaborative. Do I have a motion? I'll make that a motion. Have a second. I'll sign up. Nate, yes. Miss Martinsson, yes. Kelly Schweitzer, yes. Andy Clark, yes. Katie Battton, yes. Mark Gman, yes. John, yes. Review and potential approval of 202526 open enrollment applications. So board members within your packet. Uh this is an annual process as well as we look forward to open enrollment numbers in and out of the district. And at this stage of the game, we very much know that it's a preliminary number, but these are the items what we know. The state of Wisconsin recognizes an official window that closed on April 30th for student and families to open enroll. Families may choose up to three
050districts if they're in the uh process of thinking where they may want to go. The preliminary numbers that we have right now as shown in your board packet um they show that district received 49 applicants from residents to attend other districts, 16 applicants from non-residents uh students to attend our district and then that comparison which is very similar to last year 51 and 15. Mr. Mark, I know that you work directly with pleas on this and our budgeting and forecasting and any other additional comments. We tried to simplify this to make it as clear as um there are 49 applicants, but really the notes down there 20 of the applicants are already attending school district chosen to apply or had to apply. 19 of the new applications are for 4K students and often times look
051at that application, you can tell if it's daycare related. If it says daycare on there, that's what we're anticipating the reason why they're openly rolling out because there are some school districts that offer dayare as part of their services. And then there are eight new applicants that have moved to the school district and their family has and they want to remain at their existing school district to attend. And then there are 16 applicants who are open going into the district, but 10 of them are already here. So really only six new, but that's how we share the application process because that's what we need to do. How many new we have last year? Last year we had 15 apply and I don't know the number off the top of my head. Any further discussion? Motion
052to approve. Make the motion. Do I have a second? I'll second it. We'll call vote on this one. We need a Okay. All in favor? I moving on. Board of education committee structure and assignments. Yes. You want to take the the lead on the assignment? I can I can do that. Okay. uh annually after the board of education restructures membership to address recognized board of education committees. Recent members were asked to share their committee participation interests with current board president merman for their identified committee membership with feedback shared by other members and as well as committee oversight. Um any questions comments discussion? You want to know the one connection to the assignment of uh there is u one that was mislabeled uh Andy Thorp I I assigned him to total compensation and relations committee and
053was that other connections okay on connections committee Andy is also on there that was in this print so just for everybody's info We're looking for a motion to recognize committee structure as presented. Probably don't need a motion on that. We would just need a motion if the board didn't want to accept here. Okay. Well, moving on then. Can I add one one item? One item. Um, you're on instructional. The instructional committee set a meeting date for next Tuesday, next Tuesday, the 20th, and we didn't know where you would land on that time if and we they would definitely want you there. If that date works, I think it's at 10:30 or 11 o'clock. I think it's 11. 11. I think it's at 11 in the morning. I don't know what your schedule reflects, but if
054how long it would be, typically we try to stay about an hour, you know, that time, but if there is a conflict, we can reschedule that meeting because you had no no knowledge of that. So, um, I'll try to make that work. Yeah. Okay. All right. But if if some you drive home something comes up, just let me know and then I can communicate if we need to pick another date. Okay. No, I just want to All right. Wait, he's on instructional and comp and connections like three. Is that We haven't been really doing much with connection. So, it just sounds like a lot for three. Yeah. So, um it seems like a lot to put somebody that works full-time on three. Well, and that is fine. If if he doesn't want to follow through
055on one of those, then that that is just fine. We we've done committees of two before. Maybe it's initiation by fire. My first year I was on three. Yeah, I just was empathetic because I was like, well, that's a lot. And I will say um I hope you enjoy your time being a delegate down at the WSB convention. I'm sure you will find it enlightening. All right, moving on to close session. Do I have a motion? Oh, first, we'll need to read all three of the close session. Okay, motion to section 19.85 85 C Wisconsin statutes board of education will convene in close session to discuss the continued employment of certified and support staff members over which the board has jurisdiction and exercises responsibility pursuant to section 19.85 85 Wisconsin State Board of Education will
056convene in close session to discuss the employment compensation of administrative certified support and additional assignment staff members over which the board has jurisdiction and exercises responsibility first to sections 19.85 85 AFG and section 120.131C Wisconsin statutes. Board of Education will convene in close session for the purpose of approving the April 30th, 2025 minutes from the expulsion which was heard in close session page 100. Do I have a motion? Make the motion. Do I have a second? All in favor? No. Roll call on that. Okay. Chris Martinson. Yes. Holly Schwitzer. Yes. Andy Thorp. Yes. Katie B. Yes. Mark Roman. Yes. Nick. Yes. John. Yes. All right. Thank you everyone. You can go. Thank you. Get your horn warmed up. [Music] Thanks for coming. to the hold.