001Good evening, Oral Nation, and welcome to this month's board meeting. I didn't know where it went. Christ. [Music] Oh yeah, long story. He must come in early. We only have one. [Music] I'll do it right here. Water. Y'all good? Pretty good with water. I'm good. All right. I'm back in open session. So, our first item tonight, uh, is election of officers. All right. So, uh, with this, this is an annual, uh, process and, uh, a great process for our board and we've got a brand new board member, too, um, as part of this. So, we reorganize every single year. But I'm going to start out with, uh, for the group or for the board for that matter. Do I have any nominations for the present position uh, within the board? I'll nominate John. Second. Any
002conversation, dialogue? Seeing none, we'll go to uh voice. Yep. So, all in favor? I I All opposed. Congratulations, John. [Applause] Um our next uh role that we are going to go through is vice president. So I'll look for a motion to nominate uh someone for vice president. Nominate Steve Doc. Okay. Second. All right. Then we will do a uh all in favor say I. I. I. All against say nay. All right. Awesome. So, Steve, congratulations on vice president. Our next item is uh looking for our clerk with Terry stepping away from the board. We need to assign a new clerk. So, I'll look for a nomination for the clerk on the school board. I'll nominate Rick Matthew. Second. All in favor say I. I all anyone against say may. All right. Congratulations Rick on the
003floor. Our next item is for the seat of treasurer. So with Rick becoming uh the clerk now, we'll have an open seat for treasure. So look for a recommendation for the treasur seat. Jacob second. All in favor say I. I. Anyone against? Say nay. All right. Congratulations, Jacob. [Applause] Ready? Hand over the papers. Do we have both of Yes. Can we do that? That'd be awesome. So, uh, again, we get the wonderful pleasure of inviting a brand new elected board member into our board, which is fantastic. Miss Katie Galleries is going to be there. We're going to do this official. So, I'm gonna ask Katie to stand. I'll stand, too. And we'll go through the process of the oath of office. Okay. So, just repeat after me. All right. I I state your name. Katie
004Young. Put your hand up. Yeah. Who have been elected to office Who have been elected to office a school board member a school board member but have not yet entered but have not yet entered upon the duties thereof upon the duties thereof. Swear I will support Swear I will support the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin and the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin and will faithfully will faithfully discharge the duties discharge the duties of said office said office to the best of my ability to the best of my ability. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations. Thank you. Y. Thank you. What about these two guys? Do that. Are they already in? I think they're already in, but we
005can Okay. You want to repeat? We can do that, too. Um I think we're I think you're in. Yeah. Yeah, they're good. All right. All right. Welcome back. Let's just say congratulations to Jacob and to John being reelected for the positions here, too, as well. We're really lucky to have this supportive and amazing board for our district. Awesome. All right. Thank you, Matt. Um, our next item is board mission statement and agreements. Yes. Uh, my little table here. I don't know if I can read my mission statement from that little piece of paper, please. Thank you. Okay. So, our mission statement is we will develop policy that is representative of our community, set goals, and lead our district by collaborating. And then our beliefs are three-fold. Stand up and own it. We are one and
006encouraged to grow. Standing up and owning it means as an individual, how can we bring the best of version of ourselves to this, but also share where we're at, what we feel so we can best help the rest of our district. But we are one is we need each other to be better. We can't do it alone. And then finally, courage to grow. Every single meeting, how do we continue to just be open and be curious to uh what's out there and gain a little bit more understanding of how we can be better as a full district? Thanks for sharing those. Um, next item is consent agenda. Uh, we have six items listed. Um, approval of special meeting minutes from April 23rd, 2025. Approval of special minutes from April 9th, 2025. Approval of special minutes
007April 7th of 2025. Approval of special minute meeting minutes from April 3rd, 2025. Um, also approval of our regular meeting minutes from March 17th. and they're in our treasures report all which are found in our board packets. So I will look for a motion to approve consent agenda. So move. Okay. Then you're ready, Rick. Yep. Uh Hawk, yes. He german. Yes. Gings, yes. Yes. Okay. Excellent. Um, our next item is that board members share a moment of pride. This is an opportunity for us to share, you know, something since the last meeting that maybe we got to take part in or witness that's just awesome about our district. So, I don't know if anyone would like to start. I can start. This is actually a little personal for me. My daughter make Putty chaired her
008last meeting as president of the Trevor board tonight. Um, few months ago, her employer told her they prefer that she step down from the board. So that's the reason she's leaving the board. But uh I'd like to recognize her contributions both at preferred and exploration. She's been instrumental in initiating and growing both schools, spending a ton of hours trying to help make things better for the kids. So I'm sure going forward while I'm out on the board, she'll continue to find a way to contribute. And I can just say Lori and I are exceptionally proud of her and what she has contributed to the kids in our district. Thanks for sharing. That's great. Yeah. So, uh let's see. Since the last meeting, I had an opportunity to attend the National Honor Society uh banquet and
009uh it was, you know, congratulations to the the outgoing group and and of course the uh the incoming group and those that are still in it. So, it was a nice uh nice banquet uh just a couple of weeks ago. So, awesome. Um, I was asked again, um, this year to be part of the scholarship committee at the high school. It's always an enjoyable thing reading through the applications and seeing the successes of our students and their their hopes and dreams for the future. And um, this year was had the most applicants of any group in u in quite a while that I've been been doing this. So I think there were 18 student seniors who applied for various scholarships. So I think um Julia you were part of the committee also right? Um I'm
010going to add a couple quick ones. Um I also was invited to judge the we all were but I was able to make the cupcake wars and um what we call home now. I always forget the new name but face family consumer. Yeah. And that's cool. The difference with, you know, it's an engagement thing with the teacher and kids. It's, you know, a fun reason to be at school in addition to just the, you know, the hardcore learning day-to-day stuff. And um there was some amazing cupcake designs and and themes and and they were all delicious, too. Um, even though I know the way the schedule falls, um, some of the stuff had to be made a day or two ahead, but it still rang true as as being very good. So, I don't know
011if any of you guys were in that class, but um, that was cool. And then just one last thing, um, just a big thank you to the ref I call them the referendum committee. I don't know if they're parent committee or a community committee that helped out leading up to the referendum with all the hard work. Um Katie, you were a key point person to that and um some of the others too. They they just um put a lot of effort into it and really just by the emotions afterwards when we found out that it hadn't passed, you could tell it it meant so much to that group and and I really appreciate that. So thanks Steve. I had the opportunity to spend the day in the kindergarten classroom during web testing. Um, and I
012think, man, I was exhausted after that. So, I mean, we have incredible staff all around, but those kindergarten teachers are just really special the things that they do with those kids on a daily basis. And there's a lot just a lot of needs all around at that age. And I think it's just yeah, it's incredible. So, I had the opportunity to do that and I enjoyed it, but was exhausting. I also want to give a shout out to um the folks that are in the room here from State Soul and Assemble. So, I saw that email come out and that's amazing. You guys all did great at such a high level. So, congratulations. That's awesome. Excellent. Um, had a couple things uh additional. One, uh, postp prom parents that leaned in and helped. Uh, just
013I I I was opportunity to be there that night and it was amazing to see how many kids came. So, I hope everyone had fun and it was a small group of parents that helped put that together and the community, all the donations that came in. you know, that stuff doesn't happen really by accident. And it just goes to my other part, which is something proud of, but also a call to action is really around like volunteering. You know, I see emails that come out around helping with middle school track or, you know, coming to help with postp prom or whatever it may be. And just really encourage if anyone's listening or in the room that can give back a little bit more, that's what makes really North special is the ability for everyone to
014help out and and make experiences for our kids. So I just want to thank everyone that has taken opportunity to do that this year and for the ones that are thinking about doing it in the future. So that's everything I have. All right. Is this the last meeting? Can you tell us like I mean after maybe your stuff that's like what your plans are and just so everybody knows like moving forward and after uh I can start right now. Okay. Uh, in the fall I'm planning to attend W Stevens Point to major in I've changed my major to major in secondary education to double minor in family and consumer sciences and music and then go back to get my masters in administration. Awesome. So I'm excited. We're ready for you. I want to go back.
015Okay. Am I good? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. for the so the student council we have officially elected our next year's representatives. If you could all help me congratulate the following students. President Lady Alvando, Vice President Jazelle Predencio, our co- secretaries Kora Fos Rivera and Kimberly Diaz. and then I'm going to let our new president take a paragraph or two. Okay. So, the student council held a middle and high school extravaganza egg hunt. We had about 150 students that participated and collected eggs. Eggs were hidden all throughout the hallways of both schools. We had nine golden eggs with the prize of an Easter basket created by the class representatives. A few upcoming plans. Student council representatives will go give a discussion to the eighth graders about the coming members and officers. Start pre-planning for next
016year's homecoming spirit dress week. And as our seniors last few days are approaching, we will begin a kiss a senior goodbye sales in the second week of May. [Laughter] Um, for our Key Club International, we have officially elected our next year's representatives as well, our officers, President Kimberly [Applause] Diaz, and then our vice president, Maria Pollock, our Secretary Orans Morales, and our treasurer, Yari Ganos Santos. And then The key club is having their annual end of the year report on Wednesday, April 30th at 7:00 a.m. We will have members of the Piwanies attend with a free breakfast and we will also announce the one scholarship winners that morning. We would also like to congratulate the student volunteers of the year. Freshman Alexa, sophomore Abia Long, junior Dissol Predencio, senior L Garcia. Out of our 66
017members, we have a total of 1,00 1,00 195 recorded hours of service for the whole entire year. And then for NHS National Honor Society, the NHS banquet was held on Sunday, April 6th. We inducted 19 new members, and graduated 31 seniors. We have officially elected our next year's officers, President Macy Broen, Vice President Bria Pollock, Secretary Quinn Hughes, and Treasurer Austin Foy. [Applause] Then as mentioned uh we usually do a student accomplishments. So a huge congratulations to our oral musicians who performed at the state ensemble festival hosted at W Oshkosh. Uh Nova Lau Kirstston Paris, Zack Luick, Adler Meyer, Ray Style, and Abby Wagner. [Music] [Applause] Any questions? Lots of presidents in the room. I know. What would you suggest for the next person coming in your role for next year? Have your report done
018the weekend. It's not always easy. Talk loud. Practice in the mirror. Yeah, he'll be fine. Yes. Good advice. So was not only a great president, he also makes a mean bucket of popcorn at the movie theater, just so you know. So you may see me once in a while, but no, we appreciate Lisa everything you did this year and uh yeah, it's been amazing year. So thank you. Wish you the best, too. Yeah, best of luck. Thanks. All right. Excellent. As always, you're welcome to stay or if you have other things to do, welcome to leave as well. So, um, our next one is state soul ensemble. Who am I turning it to? Oh, I'm going first. All right. So, as Louise already kind of set it up, we did have uh seven events go
019to state solo ensemble this past weekend. Three of which were uh instrumental solos. So, earning a second was Kirsten Paris. Uh she played Timothy solo which is the first time that a percussion event has gone to state in my time in North Fondelac. And then earning a first was Zach Lewis on his trumpet solo and Abby Wagner who you will hear from in a little bit on her piano solo. Unrelated to music, I'm also the forensics coach. Uh and we went to state on Friday, April 11th and we had really great success. So I hope it's okay if I share that with you as well. Earning a bronze medal was Kennedy Balthazor and Sloan Johnson in group interpretation and Adrina Ferman in solo serious. Earning a silver medal was Addison Bower, Devon Benoy, and Elsie
020Conger in a play acting group, Dakota Chancellor in Moments in History, Rose Gird in pros, Adler Meer, Reese Style, and Abby Wagner in play acting, Brooke Peterson in impromptu, and then there were four groups that earned a perfect score of 25 and earned a gold medal. Resa Hernandez in oratory, Kamaya Marovski in poetry, Lizzie Schneider and Jaden Picket did group intern, and Amelia Badness and Farago. So really great. And then vocally on the flip side of that um we had students know a lot now received a second at state. Uh students Zach Luick musical theater um solo got a first. Abler Meyer musical theater solo got it first which you'll hear in a little bit and restyle a um classical um got it first there as well. Um the last three years also I wanted
021to recognize um Zach Luick who has been a member of the WSMA state um honors choir and um through that process has represented the district the community well um not only at the summer camp following or pre preceding that next school year but then that school year at the um at the fall convention music convention they perform uh the ensemble does for the for the music education of the state may get to work um with that. So I wanted to congratulate Zach on three years as a as a member of and also related to that uh sort of passing the baton so to speak and to represent the school district next year we had three students be selected through audition um to next year's WSMA honors choirs um Adler Meyer congratulations Adler Ree Style congratulations
022and Noble Lap now. So all three congratulations. all three um through audition there's about 1,600 auditions that take place throughout the the state uh in two weekends in the in February and then through that process about 400 students through the orchestra the band jazz band um and the choirs are selected through audition and Adler Reese and Nova uh with three of those I guess 150 um vocalists total for for those spots of all those auditions. So tremendously proud of them and um recognition and the accomplishment that that is entailed. Um so with that uh we'll have our sample of music before we talk about next school year uh and what happens in the fall. But you want should we have Abby go first? [Music] You want to tell them what you're playing? Oh, sure. I'm
023playing the second movement of Beethoven's petique sonata. So if that means anything [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Come on down. And we'll let Adler introduce his piece. It's right here. That's fine. I'll be singing Charlie Brown's Kite from the You're a good man, Charlie Brown [Music] musical. No more wind, no more hope. Got to get this stupid guy to fly. Got to make sure it doesn't snag, doesn't trip, doesn't drag. Got to watch out for every little whoops. Little less speed, little more tech, little less rise, little more slack. Got to keep my [Music] me till I get it in the air. Millions of little kids do it every day. They make a kite and poof in the sky. Believe it took me to have the one kite. Who likes to see a little kid
024[Music] cry? Less luck. Got to face this fellow eye. That life seen you chasing walls, climbing trees, digging holes, grab your streets on everything passing by. Why [Music] not? Wait a minute. What's it doing? It isn't on the ground. It isn't in a tree. It's in the [Music] air. Look at that. It's got the breeze now. It's past the trees now with room to spare. Oh, what a beautiful sight. And I'm not such a clumsy guy. If I really try, I can fly. [Music] [Applause] So, not only has Adler and Abby and others have showcased themselves individually, um both uh vocally, instrumentally, last week, we had the 37th annual chili supper. Um some great success there. This coming weekend, we have the 37th annual Coral Cabaret. Friday and Saturday, 7 p.m. Shameless plug. Uh next
025month, month of May, we have a lot of things happening both in the PAC and otherwise. uh middle school band, choir concerts, um high school art show in the Commons, the Streerzic uh concert as well taking place in the the PAC at 6:30. The following week we have graduation in the gymnasium at 6:30. the previous week we have senior scholarships at 6:00 in the so month of May is no rest for the weary uh in the Friday elementary program May second or if they want to just see the individual grades 9:45 to 9:15 fifth grade 9:30 to 10th grade 10:15 to 10:45 third grade there is and then out and about in the community Memorial Day parade on Memorial Day So again, um, no rest for the weary in that regard. So, um, obviously last
026year with Charlie Brown, that was our 11th annual fall musical. Uh, we're happy to bring back to the, um, to the stage the 12th annual fall musical for the school district of North Finalac. Put it in the calendar. Friday, November 7th, Saturday, November 8th, Sunday, November 9th, 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 2 pm. Uh we don't know um until a few weeks from the Packers schedule if maybe that's their by week. Who knows? That might be who knows. But um we're excited to bring our 12th annual fall musical. Um my co-ire our co-directors um Julia Lery, this is Katherine Erenss. Our other co-director Christa Clerman says her best as well. Uh she could be here tonight but wanted to extend um her excitement as well. So, we're going to be bringing the holidays a little early.
027Next fall, we'll be performing a Christmas Carol November 7th, 8th, and 9th classic Charles Dickens brought to you at the school district. Uh, more information will be given to students. any student of the high school can audition the first day of school, second day of school, we'll haveformational packets before the summer break. Um, also if they're if students want to be participating in stage crew, tech crew helping construct the set, paint the set. Um, there's opportunities for a student pitband as well. So, um, things to to have many students encompass. We have about 50ish uh that that are involved one way or another, either on the stage, behind the stage, under the stage. So, we're happy to showcase everybody's talents. So, I think I covered everything. Thank you so much for having us. [Applause] Question.
028Everyone's got smiles, right? Thank you all for for joining us today and thank you for just you know taking part in the arts. It's such a vital part of the learning as well and I think it take you so many different places but it's just a an unreal experience if you have that opportunity. I'm glad you all um are diving right into it and keep doing it. Um and if you're graduating and going on because it just is a a great thing for um your own best version of yourself. So appreciate you all. Thank you. Thank you. We meet in the summer, too. Popcorn. I'll bring you popcorn. Brianna had her cell phone here this evening, so she's going to make it. But maybe there. All right. Have a good rest of uh the year,
029please. All right, our next item is clerk's report. All right, two donations this month to Backpack Buddies, Wayne and Janice Shingan for $100 and All Tools MTD Inspection Service LLC for $1,000. Both of those guys are frequent and generous donors and we appreciate them very much. Awesome. Yes, thank you. Um, next item is citizens comments. We have no one else in the room. So, we'll move on from that piece. Um to superintendent. All right. More or less is it's coming down to final financial operations or that bucket today. Uh one of the first things we want to start having discussion about the new policy or potential new policy on citizens comments. We brought this up a little bit, but we want to just discuss this and open it in terms of just how that might
030change for years to come in terms of just uh trying to collect, you know, and provide a space where people can come in and share where they're at. And hopefully we get more people in the future. But I just wanted to bring it to everybody's attention. This is the current policy that's on here. I someone who's been on the board for a little bit can uh share a little bit about that. So, let me grab what did Here you go. It's easier this way. [Music] Almost there everybody. Okay. So this is the current policy uh 0167.3. I have sent this into we have an organization called Neolo. NeiO is a company that works with us to make sure our policies are up to date. Um they meet the uh state and federal guidelines and uh
031they give suggestions as well as making sure we're compliant with everything on on the board which is great because sometimes policy can like sit for a little bit and if you're not careful it to changes pretty quickly and we want to make sure that we've got the best policy for everyone in our district moving forward. So this is uh the actual uh public comment at board meetings that we have right now. Um the the agenda item any person or group who would like to have item put on the agenda shall submit their request to the district administrator. Such requests shall be subject to the recommendation of the district administer and the approval of the board uh president. But getting into what we're talking about here is public comment section of the meeting. Uh we've had
032a little bit of conversation about this in the past but this is just resurging a little bit. And it's basically to prevent fair and orderly public expression. The board may provide a period of public comment at any regular meeting. The board and publish rules to govern such comment in board meetings. The presiding officer of each board meeting at which public comment is permitted shall administer the rules of the board's conduct. The presiding officer shall be guided by the following rules. Public uh comment shall be permitted as indicated on the order of business or of the discretion of the presiding officer. Only citizens that live in the district boundaries and parents that have students currently open enrolled in the district can participate in public comments. Citizens may make a brief statement of the board regarding a
033specific agenda item during their uh either unfinished or new business. The board president will recognize all speakers as time permits following the introduction, motion, and initial board discussion. Each speaker will have limited uh to brief statement. Total time allowed for the statements will be five minutes for each agenda item. Time limits may be extended to by the presiding officer as warranted in his or her hers or her sole judgment. Uh participants must be recognized by the presiding officer and will be requested uh preface of their uh comments by an announcement of their name and address. And then participants shall direct their comments to the board and not to staff or other participants. Moving on, we've got a whole slew of things here. All students shall be directed to the presiding officer. No person may address
034or question board members individually. Uh employees of the district shall not use public comment time to address any workrelated issues. These items shall be addressed through a different channel with the district administrator. Presiding officer may interrupt, warn or terminate a person a participant statement within the statement is too lengthy, personally directed, abusive, obscene or irrelevant. Request any individual to leave the meeting when the person does not observe reasonable quarum. Request the assistance of law enforcement officers in the removal of disorderly person when the person's conduct interferes with the orderly progress of the meeting. Can call for a recess or an endurement uh to another time when the lack of public decorum so interferes with the orderly conduct of a meeting as to warrant such action and then wave these rules is also right of the
035presiding officer. The portion of the meeting during which the comment of the public is invited uh should be limited to 15 minutes unless extended by the presiding officer. The board may authorize administration to arrange for the recording, filming, photography, uh broadcasting or live streaming of open sessions of the board meetings. Signage, banners, or other materials which impedes any person's view of proceedings, including a board member's view, shall be relocated as not to obstruct the use. uh this goes more into the uh recording than anything else and further obstructions. So looking at this and I think uh you know getting this conversation or at least a discussion was how do we get more people in here to like hear where people are at but also to feel like they're you know part of uh that world
036and I think a lot of this frankly comes from results of the referendum and individuals thinking that uh we don't you know have a voice we're not in that. So we wanted to start a conversation about this at least at the board level. So today is more of like you know what are some of those areas that we want to talk about or address and how do we you know make that better for the future. Not saying that we're going to create any policy today but this is the start of it so we can bring that policy back. This doesn't I thought so I was wrong. I guess this doesn't say anything about board members replying. So does that mean currently is allowed to the board members can apply? I didn't see anything. I could
037have missed it though. The only thing I thought I thought there was a portion where the only the board the presiding officer has the right to speak if I remember that before. Right. Yeah. The way this is written, the new policy, we had specific language in the pre before we had Neiola standardize everything and do this with every district or we did it locally and um based on our attorney and the administrator, you know, finding out what has to be new policy and all that. And and that's what I would like to see, too. And it most of this is is fine. It all works. Um but um that old policy which I'd like to see come back is where the it says specifically the president can respond to an a citizen's comments or direct
038um like the administrator um to answer the question or direct the administrator to get back to them if he needs to do some research or find something out. And then also if a other another board member would like to make a comment they can request of the president you know may I say something and the president granted that if if he felt it was he or she felt it was appropriate. So um you know it's not to get into you know a real long discussion with the people in the audience because it is a meeting of the board but to allow and what I think what you touched on last time Rick was that we just don't sit here silent when they made some comments and it gives them some understanding at least we're hearing
039them or we can respond. Um and then the other uh point I mean the the time limits seem to be fine. We can talk about that. But um the the what I read the FondeLac schoolboard minutes. I don't know if you see that in the paper. They they have some and not knock anybody, but they have some frequent flyers that are in almost every meeting minutes and and their citizen comment whatever they call it. And some of them get off on some unrelated irrelevant stuff. So, um I think these time limits should be held to as much as possible with the right like if we have a hot issue like during co we let things go for a you know quite a while sometimes just so everybody can feel like they were hurt they ask
040them you know not to be repetitive if somebody's already made that point but um so I think adding something along those lines um would be necessary I think the other rules seem to be fine. Would you mean on top of like where it states 5 minutes up to 15 like more than that or is that suffice on that piece that you're looking at? I think that's fine as the guideline you know again depending on a particular meeting. If you feel like you know there's another one more person wants to speak fine you know let them let that go. Um, one thing that I should I did remember now too, um, the policy tends to pertain to agenda items, which we don't have in recent years, we haven't had much of that, but people used to
041come because they'd see something and they'd want to speak to the agenda item, which was allowed after the board was done discussing. Um, but then the same set of rules should also be mentioned for the citizen comment section, too. um specifically in the in the policies so that um they know that that pertains to them. Also clarify that again. So there was like is it how is was the agenda the superintendent's news or the or was it a different item that was it was any agenda item? It usually was new business. Yeah. Um we typically don't have any old business but on the agenda but um yeah they you know somebody in the audience may have a thought that they want to interject because once in a while we'll see people kind of to the
042person next to them like they'd like to maybe clarify something or say something and this policy allows that um within those rules. So but again I can't remember the last time that happened. been years I think an audience member actually spoke to an agenda item. Um and then then the president just has to be aware of what is it appropriate for for the meeting or for the following the rules and basically the president has the right to shut it down whenever he so she or she chooses to do that. Correct. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I think um if I remember when I the year I was president recently, there was a lady who had emailed us and then during the comment, she started to read the whole email again to us, which was, you know,
043page and a half long and it was a valid issue, but I I hopefully nicely kind of shut that down because we already had all that input from her and I think I asked her just to conclude or come to a conclusion. um you know some of the final act stuff they may be talking about some thing nationally that happened in a district in California and you know and is that really relevant to what we're doing here tonight for this meeting kind of thing and and you can interrupt them and that but for the most part it all goes pretty smoothly but again the key point to it all is I think allowing some response to the person so that yeah which isn't clearly stated in in Rex, right? So that might need to add
044that and then the process of how that works too because like you were saying Steve if the president or the presiding officer is the person who responds or the administr if he or she wants to turn to the administrator they can do that. And then I like the other part of if another board member wants to respond they have to request the president or the presiding officer to say so something like that in there too so they know like the process for how to make that happen. I just think yeah I think it's extremely important to be heard to build a respond right so I think that's the piece is we just don't want to be I don't want to I'll speak for myself I don't want to be sitting here if there's a comment
045and we can provide value to that conversation but we're unable to share that um because we want to have that open dialogue that transparency with with the community. So, and the point of the other board members asking or whatever is just to so it doesn't become a free fall. That makes sense. Talking at the same time. I agree with that. I had nothing else besides when I read it. I didn't see what you were just talking to, Steve. So, okay. I could drop you an open. Yeah, agree. Redo. And then we just add or make that a addendum and put it in there as a draft and you all can look at the next time around. And then that would be our first read then. Yep. Right. And then we'll go and then get the
046second read by July. If not sooner, June potentially because we'll have it in May. Yeah. Okay. Anyone else? Anything else on there? No, I think that's a good step. I think I mean the hot topics have kind of died away but the few meetings I came to right after co people talked and didn't get a response and then they're like well why do I bother coming if I'm not get a response exactly agree and I think it just feels awkward for everybody sitting here just to say okay noted I mean yeah okay Uh, next on the docket, I'm just going to pull down here. So, obviously, as a result of uh the referendum not passing and making up, you know, around $2 million of what we had to to meet where we need to meet
047for the budget. Uh, one of the things that was had a conversation and discussion was school fees and some other areas. So these are recommendations and uh just want to note some of the different things that are coming up here and it's open for discussion and dialogue. Uh in terms of this is specific to oral zone. Okay. So I know we had kind of went back and forth with what would happen with that but uh given the idea of raising those costs and and changing that I think we're going to be able to afford to continue it but it is different from what we have paid in the past. Number one, there's a registration fee now like that has to be subjected and non-refundable $25 per student. The other thing that comes into play is
048the rates in the morning sessions is $6 per student per day and then $8 per student per day. I think we were talking about half of that. Is it currently three and four, right? Yes. Yes. And this is this is the recommendation for next school year. Correct. This would not be for the remainder of this year but at the start of the 2526 school year. Okay. Any discussion, conversation about that? What's the thinking of the $25 per student, right? Like I I think it's basically as it says underneath it, um you know, trying to meet the consumable materials and costs. It was difficult to do that with what we were getting. So, this covers that and helps, you know, students have a better experience with uh some of the activities and different things that are
049being run at that time. Okay. And these changes would then provide us the opportunity to have the same level of service for next year. Yes. Okay. Any conversation questions? Okay. Moving on. Um also looking at student fees from the K5 grade and then Trevor Way $38 school fee. uh 6th through 8th 45 and then 9th through 1260. Um again this is a very important note in the disclaimer here. Upon completion of the waiver form the above fees may be waved for students who qualify for free meals and reduced to half for families who qualify for reduced meals. So basically if you um have reduced you pay half of what is up there. If you have free then the whole price is negated for that individual or family. Um, we're increasing the parking fees. Um, I
050think only about $5 because it was like 25. Uh, this is substantially low if you look at most parking places. Um, usually some school districts I came was like $75 a semester. So, the fact that we're still at that um is fine, but uh just something to think about for the future too for that because that helps a lot with different things like activities and things going back into it based on that that that dollar amount. And then any replacement sticker. So, if a student loses that, it's $15. Is there any uh reduced fee for that for the part? It's the same. It's all the same. So like no matter what it's all across if you have filled out the paperwork. Okay. Same with athletic fees participation. You're seeing here Bessie Allen 30 horse man
05145 which is a little little bit more than last year. Um and then the athletic season getting into passes per year. So the adult pass going up a little bit to 38. A family pass that basically goes throughout the whole year is 75 which is comparable to other districts is very low. Um, but again, we're just trying to slowly engage a little bit higher every year that we're going to be doing that. Senior citizens over 60 free. Please request a pass from high school and the tail uh ticket taker for each of those games. And then NFDL students, we've always felt like that's important that they get in free because they should be at these events for the kids and we're not going to ask them to pay for something that they should just be
052be able to be part of um for going forward. I can tell you and I I saw on the results previous board meeting with the income raise for sporting events. I c I from going to a lot of the sporting events, it's much more consistent. I think that there's someone there at the ticket booth where I think probably a few years ago that probably wasn't the case. And then you could I can't I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I think it's good that we're seeing an outcome of that that'll go back into the programs, right? There was a noticeable increase at least in the year that I noticed. So, just want to thank everyone. I know those folks come in to do that. That's that's really helpful. It's coming back to
053that volunteering, helping or assisting and getting more families involved. That's a huge part of it because there's a lot of events that we have, which is fantastic too for our community. Any other questions, dialogue, conversation about this? Okay, moving forward. Um, we just have the arts in here. Rental fees going up a little bit in both areas to $75, which is still very, very reasonable in terms of for a full year. Um, you're paying for an instrument. You're quadrupling, if not, you know, closer to $1,000 easy. Um, on any kind of instrument that you're working on right now. Um, and that's probably a lower end. Um, and then you've got solo ensemble fees per student. Again, the same things that would apply for athletics, the same is up there in terms of free and reduced.
054So, they have that, but you you talk about like just fees in general for the solos, duets, trios, uh went up a little bit. Um, and there's three different classes that you see here as well. That changes a little bit and that funds like everything from the music to the accompanist to everything else that you might have to do from that. And then if there's a large group ensemble, uh the WSMA uh entry fee is divided by the number of performers and it's a minimum of $5 per student. Maximum cost of student preparation solo ensemble fees is 150 per family per building. I don't think we see that exceed too much yet, but um just so that there's a top line too that we are looking at as well. um technology protection fee and horse
055man and Bessie Allen will uh we I think it was like 15 now it's like 38. So if you um damage or you uh in one way harm the device that you're given you we can have basically the insurance out of it. So but this is optional so that if you do break it you'll be fully repaired. If you do break it you're paying for everything that you put in. Some of those things are not cheap. uh in terms of the screen repair other things like that at all cost that carries that's what that line says underneath y so if nothing happens it rolls over right okay right um getting to food service again these are all coming in terms of you know making sure we're meeting our needs uh student service breakfast and lunch
056again free also applies for this kindergarten through fifth fifth grade, excuse me. Breakfast, $8 a week, $160 a day. Lunch, $13 a week,$ 260 a day. 6th to eighth grade, $875 a week, $1.75. Lunch, 1375, 275 a day. And then uh the high school uh 1175 a week, 235 at breakfast, and then675 lunch per week, and then 335 a day, which are still really low. Um just coming from different districts again, um those are uh really I I don't want to say reasonable, but they they do hit the lower price point in terms of a school lunch for kids at this point in time. Isn't there some kind of a formula where we kept it the same year after year after year for a while because of some percentage of something that met the had
057to meet the federal guidelines. I don't remember exactly what it was but we were we couldn't charge anymore I guess because of that. Yeah. I don't I can't tell you that spec like exactly how that all lays out. But there is a formula that they have to debate. But Chartwells is kind of influencing this too saying like you need to raise your costs because what they're paying right now. We did not raise them uh the last couple of years just because we're trying to keep them minimal as much as possible for our families and help out as much as we could with the other monies we were getting sub substantially from the the food program. So yeah, I mean again these are extremely low. I do not know how much it Oh, there here comes
058the adult. Uh so breakfast is 350 adult 465 which is still significantly low. Um and that's and then the kindergarten 12th grade for the reduced 30 cents a day 40 cents a day. if we don't like we have some families that are not like falling in the deficit area and who have not filled out any paperwork and our our chartwells people do a really good job of connecting and trying to connect and say hey we need your money we need those things and it's like again and again in the calls but if we get to a point we actually have collection agency that we go into it and the the whole point is not to go say we got you but it's more of let's say hey can we get you to fill out the
059paperwork because many times it's about paperwork and just completing that for free and reduced and that's negated. But if it's not, then we need those dollars back that are not being accounted for. They get messaged in the phones and you probably has a family or like on your device saying you're getting into the deficit in terms of your lunch uh totals for uh the week or whatever it might be. Um so that you can keep in track of that as well and replenish that if need be. I have a question. Um there's at least at the high school there's alle cart type items. Are they is that included in this fee or do they have to pay extra? They would have to pay extra. This is the school lunch you know mandated by the school
060program lunch programming for the nation too. So if you want if you want something like else or extra you got to pay additional fee to that. Okay. And does Startwell set that fee or do we talk to them? We work with them on that. um and per item, but they pretty much have a good idea of what they're going on, but we try to make it at least doable for kids to be able to have options to as well. Okay. Any questions there? Okay. All right. That's all I have in the fees area and the raising and again results of referenda. Uh the next part is revisions to the uh BAM's co-curricular handbook. Um, and I that was all sent out to you already ahead of time. So, and I think uh Jillian also like
061highlighted the areas. I guess my question is is are there any questions in any of those areas that I can answer that um and if I can't answer those I can get those back those answers back. But I just said one really small thing on the on the chart that shows what the percentage of the penalty means per the number of games per sport. The the basketball one is not updated. And I know at the end um she puts that there's some pending changes maybe coming so they'll have to fix that. But the one that's changed a number of years back the the basketball max is 24 games now and then this says 22. Okay. I can look into that, make sure we're adjusted appropriately. Yeah. Because then the percentage of the penalty will change
062the number of games. Will there be I know there was a call out about NIL and contact. Will there be language put in to our book? Yeah. I I again when you talk about name image likeness it is completely separate from the schools like that is the athlete excuse me the person working with any company organization that decides to do that they cannot use any of our numbers or they can't use any of our colors they can't use our logos they can't even use our name so it's literally just the person again I comparison it to um like CellCom for the Packers they don't any of their like uniforms or can't use their uniforms. They happen to you see them wear blue or whatever it might be. So, it's literally just the person that's making
063that to it and that's what's in the language as well from the WIA, but we need to tailor that in once you know and this was we kind of want to get this going and cleared, but I think especially at the high school level. Um not to say that we're going to have that either. I would say if we really I mean when you're looking at the state who can really actually make some kind of I think business out of you probably talking five maybe 10 kids total if that and that might be even a lot. Um some places have had like teams of like people come together like a community in these states that actually have adopted NI already. Um and the business will say but they can't use the team's name. They got
064to just say hey it's Rick it's Jacob it's Steve you know throughout the whole thing. So, we just got to make sure. How do you know if that need that part need to be put into the co-curricular handbook saying you can't, you know what I mean? I know that we're not part of that, but like you cannot use the likeness of the district or your I asked my son about it and he said that it's going to be more of an overblown reaction to it than what the actual effect is going to be, right? It's more restricted than the college version of it. and he thought maybe 15 or 20 athletes in the entire state would be in a position. Yeah. What and that might be even high to be honest, you know, right? And
065and you said whatever it might matter a little bit locally is maybe a local restaurant may feed the kids for free before a big game or something where things that used to maybe be a little in the gray area now they'd be able to do that I guess. But a lot has to come out yet on Yeah. actual practice. Yeah, it's it's uncharted and there basically there's not a state law. This is WA, you know, and so they're a separate organization and I think there was some urgency obviously by WA to try to push something through before the state actually came up with something. The other question I asked about um in terms of um NIL with the WA when I was on a conference call with them uh I said is there a certain
066agency or provider that all individuals in the state of Wisconsin have to attune to because the state was going to come under that realm like it was only these three groups that they could actually work with in terms of game image likeness in terms of marketing campaign or whatever it might be and WA said no anybody can use whoever they want moving forward. Opportunity. I'll keep this one out though. Yeah. Any other questions about the handbook for co-curricular? Okay. I appreciate putting the changes on one page. I will pass that along to Jillian. And I also said that's a awesome thing for her to make that happen. Um cuz that's not easy to do too. But she I think it was um and her her urgency was she wants to be able to get this
067in the hands of people even before the summer so that they can know what's going to be going on moving forward. Okay, I got to just get back here everybody. Okay, just making sure I've hidden everything. Um, got that, got that, got that. Um, yeah, I think that hits most of the things that we want to discuss here. And then um next month just so everybody knows this is when the principles will share out data um of what they had from as web testing uh and other assessments from preac the data that they got and forward testing as much as they could publicly that they can at that point. But just so everybody knows is like all the testing has been completed from access for um ML and EL. Um our forward testing K through
068uh 8 has been completed. our pre-ACT and our ACT is all completed as well. All that stuff wrapped up last week. We started getting um access testing scores in just today. So, that's awesome. We can start seeing where our ML students are at. Um I believe in the next two weeks we'll have preac data back already, which is phenomenal. Forward testing keep takes a little bit longer, but not too much since everything's digitized now. And ACT is like a six to 8 week after you put in conception. So um people have some results. Now we might have more information ahead of time so we can share some of those things. Um but I also want to talk at that uh next meeting too some of the you know changes in terms of like how we're
069going to get this done and really get laser-like with our our groups and to make sure that we're making this happen. Uh we had a really good conversation today about special education 612 of like how we're going to approach that a little bit differently and then how that also affects regular education too 612. Um and it's exciting to see some of those things but I want to get some information so that you can see how we're going to move that needle um for our kids. So more to come. Okay. All right. Next item is our new business. So we have eight items to cover. Um our first one is consider approval of employee retirements discussed in close session. So we actually have two retirements coming up. Uh first one is Jackie Crup. Uh I want
070to celebrating a long career here within the district and uh excited for her next chapter. Um will be retiring at the end of this school year. And then the second one is Chris Schultz. Uh also appreciative of Chris's six years within our district uh leading our special education program and really making things happen in that part of the b uh part of the the district. Um so if there are no questions looking for approval uh for those two retirements. I just make one statement. I just want to thank them again like you're saying John. I mean Jackie had 35 years. I mean that's an unbelievable awesome career and and Chris too as well just like um what they've you know provided for the district and we just thank for their service and what they gave
071back. So I just again um we're really grateful for the individuals who have um given their their lives to uh our schools. So look for a motion for approval. I'll make second call when ready. Yes. Yes. German, yes. Gellings, yes. Yes. Um, our next item is to consider approval of administrator contracts as discussed in our close session. So look for a motion to approve those contracts unless there's any additional questions. So moved. I'll second. You second. Yep. And then roll. Um Matthew, yes. Geck, yes. H yes. Yes. Kellings, yes. Okay. Uh third item is consider approval of new hire uh as discussed in our close session. So we have one new hire uh Michael Lure uh social studies sixth grade teacher. So excited to have Michael's already supporting the district but having him in this
072role starting next year. So look for approval for that. Second. Did you have a question before? I was going to ask Matt if this is an open position, right? It's not a a new position. This was an open position that opened um in the fall. Um and we had to when we decided to fill that, it was um under the understanding that it would be a conditional contract, meaning, you know, someone would come in, do the job, but in the spring when the posting came back out, that person could be part of the interview process, but it didn't guarantee that person the position either. So they were right along with all the other candidates in that pool. Okay. I just wanted to clarify that we weren't adding a position view of the referendum results. It's
073an existing position that's being permanently right now. Okay. He yes, yes. Gellings, yes. Mathy, yes. Geran, yes. All right. Next item was uh or is consider approval of oral zone rate for a 2526 school year which was just covered in Matt's report. Look for a motion to approve that. So moved. Second a roll. Happy yes. German yes. Okay. Fifth item is consider approval of student and activity fees for the 2526 school year. I'll make that motion. I'll second it. Roll. Kerman. Yes. Gellings. Yes. Hawk. Yes. Yes. Yes. Uh, sixth item is to consider approval of breakfast lunch prices for our 2526 school year. So look for a motion. So moved. Second. Matthew, yes. Hawk, yes. German, yes. Heer, yes. Yes. Okay. Next item is consider approval of the 2526 school year activities guide that was
074discussed a little bit earlier. Is there a motion? So move. Second. Roll call when you're ready. Hear. Yes. Gillings. Yes. Yes. Grier. Yes. Hawk. Yes. Great. And the last item is appoint board member or board committee members. So we currently only have one item, a standing policy committee that uh we have Jacob on. So thank you Jacob for continuing that. But also Terry was on it. So looking to appoint Katie to that policy uh committee member as well. So thank you for stepping up to do that. and then make a motion to approve that or is it No, you're just make the appointment. You have the other ones to appoint to and the all the WB delegate will still be Steve Hawk. Sure. The CISA rep will also be Steve. No, I was that before.
075I think somebody else Rick. Okay. And then our deputy clerk uh is well Matt, right? Typically the administrator. So continue with Matt. Yes. Okay. All right. All right. That's our last item. So we are adjourned as of 8:21 p.m. So thank you everyone. Good night everyone.