001Good evening and welcome to the April 28th, 2025 regular board meeting of the Northland Pines Board of Education. Will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisibley for all here Jennifer is here. Chelsea Roaker here. Nick Sager here. And our newest board member Paulie here. All right. Thank you. We have a forum. Susie, has the board meeting been posted according to opening laws? Yes, it has. All right. Thank you. That being said, I will entertain a motion to approve the agenda. I'll make a motion to approve the agenda as presented. Leave the order of the meeting to the discretion of the chair. Second. Motion has been made second. And all in favor, please
002say I. Motion carries. All right. Our first order of business tonight is our reorganization of offers officers and delegates. All right. I'd like to nominate Jennifer, but I'll second it. is there any other nomination? Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? Thank you guys for your confidence. Um, all in favor, please say I. I motion carries. Thank you. All right. Our next um office uh is vice president. I will nominate Chris Patriquez for vice president. Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? That being said, all in favor, please say I. I. Motion carries. Next is our clerk positioner. Second. Are there any other denominations? Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? All in favor, please say I. Motion carries. Our next position is deputy clerk. I'll
003nominate Chelsea for deputy clerk. Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? Any other nominations? All in favor, please say I. I. Motion carries. And our last office is our treasurer position. I'll nominate Rebecca. Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? All in favor, please say I. I. All right. Motion carries. All right. Now, we have our officer positions and we have delegates and Oh, sorry. Sorry. Are you willing to accept that position again for W? So we'll have Nick Seer as our W representative. Mr. Patrius, are you willing to be our CISA representative? Yes. Thank you. Would you also accept the Wasby alternate? Uh sure. and I was delegate. I don't know if I can nominate myself. I can appoint myself to be delegate. We didn't go last year
004for different reasons to the convention, but that is um hopefully we'll be going in the future. Um January 21st, 22nd. And then in terms of committees, um not too many changes um other than I will be moving to finance, which I was on for many years. with Mr. Patrius and if Mrs. Nardine would continue to be as chair for finance and personnel Erica will be chair and Becky Nordine and myself on personnel um and we will welcome all to policy and Mr. Nick Seager and Chelsea Romaker will be chair and policy. Other than that, I think that is all we have to do at this time. Um I know we will be going over calendar and times but other than that point organization is complete. Thank you everybody. Now we move on. I get the
005big chair. Okay. No, I'm just kidding. Um, all right. Our next uh part of the meeting is our public participation section. Does anyone wish to speak this evening? Susie, I do not have any forms. All right, we move on to board communications. Um, as Susie reminded me, our um Kelly Roach her term expired by state statute today. We welcome Paul Yubie as our newest board member and he has taken his oath of office. Welcome Paul and thank you for joining us and the service to our community and our students. And Nick also thank you for running again and joining us and your service to community and students. [Applause] just with the confusion of the way April meeting all changed and everything, excuse me, the March meeting. Uh we did have a plaque for Kelly. So
006Tony and I did give she came to the spring fling and say train which was nice. Just Joy's coming to her community and seeing the kids sing. So um we'll post a picture of that. But uh Tony and I did get her a really nice plaque that the Eagle Manufacturing made. So she appreciated getting that from our students that our students made it. So just so you know, we did give her that too last week. All right. Uh at this time, um we have our board committee reports. Um all the reports, written reports are in our board docs with the minutes. Does any member have a question for any other board member on a committee that may not sit at this time? All right. Not hearing any. We will move on to the next All
007right. So, our next item on the agenda is our consent action item. Does any board member wish to remove any single item from the consent agenda from the full agenda? Not hearing any. I'll entertain a motion for the consent agenda. A motion to approve all items contained in the consent agenda. I'll second the motion to accept approve the items contained in the consent agenda has been made and seconded. Any other questions or discussion? I just want to highlight before questions. Um we have four resignations tonight and some amazing staff. Want to highlight um Jim Byer very sad to see him go. 23 years of dedicated service, amazing in the classroom and all the other things. He was always there when we needed him for everything else as well. Field trips, coaching, um just great advocate
008and somebody that we're sad to see go, but I want to be thankful and grateful for the time he has been with us and he'll finish out the year. But just want to mention that one in the board as you accept those this evening. And um just a couple one other update to um with some research. Tara and I um in finance we talked about waving the fees in August. Um but we are recommending September based on data of use. So September is in the motion. And then finally I just want to recognize I know um probably did heal up some of the frustrations with the parking but um the derby complex has done a nice job. They stepped up. Um they did our football players did donate some time but they gave a a
009check more than their time. So I want to give thanks and there's donation from the world championship derby complex for $1,000 to the football program but um I did want to recognize them. They are neighbor. We're going to work through those parking issues next for next year over the summer but uh just want to recognize our neighbor for that. So then you also see first review of of the employment handbook in there which will go through and then come back here next month as well. Take your questions. There's quite a few things in Dave's here tonight. A lot of these items obviously went through committee with finance committee had a long agenda. Um does anyone else have any questions or discussion on any items? Great. Not hearing any. All in favor please say I. I.
010Any opposed? Motion carries. Right. Our first discussion and action item is our approval of a bank proposal for the Northland Pines School District. I'll make a motion to approve the bid for banking services for the Northern Pine School District to People's State Bank of Eagle River Wisconsin effective May 1st, 2025 and further to maintain this banking service agreement for four years with the option to renew for one additional year. The motion has been made and seconded. Any discussion? I just would like to publicly thank all the banks. It's a lot of work to put out a you know when you get this request. It's not like just throw a number at me. It's a lot of work and kudos. Um our banks have been very good to our students and our community. They give time
011and talent and also been generous to us. So it's always competitive. we have this many banks um give us a return. Um and thanks to Tara for all the work she put in to summarize and do this process to make sure we're getting the best dollar for our taxpayers and we can use money for educating kids. So just want to publicly thank these banks and we will write them a note and letter from Tara and I talked about that. She is at the Skyward conference, but you have a question, I'd be happy to answer that for you to the best of my ability, but we flushed it out quite a bit in finance committee. So, all right. Any other questions on the banking proposal? We are currently with people's just so board members know that
012we are with people's bank already. So, um we would have gone with we the process would have taken us to the bank that gave us the best opportunity. But I will perk of this is because they are the best when it came through all the numbers. We don't have to change bank accounts and redo everything. So, that'll be good for our office staff to and and those of you that just were um elected to be treasurer and other things. It's a smoother transition not have to change everything. All right. All right. All in favor of the motion, please say I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Our next item on the agenda is our first review of employment handbook potential revisions. Yes. So I would point you I didn't read the whole thing. Uh potential draft revisions
013to policies pertaining to drug view workplace and physical examinations. Yeah. So this is something Taran and I have been looking at for a couple years now. Um we currently um in checking with all the area districts. We're the only one that does this and that doesn't make it bad. It just makes it a little unusual. Um, but we are the only one that requires a pre-screen drug test before we hire. We've always had and we are still continuing to have uh a policy that would allow us to screen or ask for a test if we have any idea that or concerns that somebody's under the influence. But this testing program, which has been in place since 2013, um it's not mandated by law. It was something that the board back then passed and implemented. Um
014has really started to add up for financial costs. Um you can see it ranges from, you know, 2700 to 3500 every year. Um it also is a that's just the amount we pay to the lab. Then there's paying the nurse to come in and c and get the sample. Um get the person do the sample has slowed down some of the hiring process. Um it really has not um had really a large effect on impacting a number of people we've hired. Thankfully we've not run into issues at school with this topic. We understand that you know this is not me um saying anything about the law or changing any of that. That is not where this is coming from. This is really a practical standpoint of could we use this money in a better way?
015Can we use our nurses time in better ways to service students and staff? Um, could we save taxpayer dollars? Um, and I think it's it's time for us to at least consider it. Like I said, Tar and I have discussed internally from administrative standpoint for a couple years and finally felt, you know what, let's get the board in on this conversation. It's we just felt it was time and like I said, we're one of the only ones that does it. So maybe it's time to us to look at it and say it's not really impacting or you know, we haven't had a problem. So, I guess that's why we brought it forward. I'm not promoting a legalization of anything. I'm really just from a practical management standpoint. It's not really have the impact and the
016cost is continuing to rise. But looking for your thoughts, we'll take this through twice. If you say leave it alone, we'll leave it alone. But I just thought it'd be important to bring it to the set of view. And I know it's a tough conversation because we don't we want to make sure committ putting safe people in front of our students and and all that's coaches. This policy is for any employee we hire. So if we hire you for, you know, work a couple days at a meet or event, we have to do this. I mean, that's the way this policy is written. if we hire you except for referees and umpires and those because those are are contracted employees but if they're regular any employee part-time sub anything you know so you know we've
017tried to use some student workers for some of our events and things like that if we actually through the hiring process we have to do all these steps um so it's it does bring up the cost and the and the time committed Scott when we went through this I believe it was for personnel was our first through this. to policy in policy. Um and I was not at policy but um can you share how many in the I mean a rough estimate of how many was positive in the years or is what we can come back to figure out how many years since just for just for so I mean I get where the lens of it you know it looks like are we going backwards but I also realize there's There's also side to
018it and I mean there's also extensive screening outside of just you know drug testing that you know all of our employees are going through. So um I don't I personally I feel comfortable with removing the drug testing requirement for new staff coming. We do what Becky's referring to by state law we do have to do a TB test and a physical at our expense too for our staff. So we are working with Jill Brunstead at Nova Care to kind of get that a little more streamlined and she's been great to work with. So, we are trying to work through create partnerships in our local community. She's consistent that um some of the other facilities have not aren't really interested in doing anymore because they're short staffed and it's not a good money maker and I
019understand that. They're running a business. So, but Jill sees the long-term partnership as a benefit. So, she's been willing to work with us and help us. I'm comfortable with it as well. I think that if there's any issue that wraps up, you still need to test. So, the time and money invested it doesn't seem to prevent anything. come back. We'll take it back through policy again and if there's other ideas that come up, we'll talk about it there and bring it through personnel and then back in May. And if somebody decides they would like further information, let me know prior to that. Any other discussion at this time? Otherwise, we'll send it back through the committees for the second. Thank you. Next on our agenda is recognition of our Hurtful Educational Foundation teacher fellow award
020recipients. Yeah. So, this is really, you know, we've had numerous and I actually went back and was kind of try to count all them, but there's a lot of years in Kohl's and I didn't think that was the best use of my time. We do have a at the high school and we're that's something I'm working on with ERS to get their display up. Um and now St. Germaine um has multiple winners as well. So need to get something out there. Um but to have 100 teachers in this um state selected for excellence. Um the process is very rigorous. We've had amazing teachers over the years who we thought should get it that don't get it. Um but they go through a rigorous process. They can be nominated by a parent, colleague, um anonymous, but
021they they go through a process at CISA 9 and then that group gets pushed forward to state all anonymous at CIA 9 and then again they don't know any bias or anything but to have five out of a hundred is the state is pretty remarkable and it says a whole lot about these amazing teachers that are listed here. Peter Arts, who's a a science teacher, physics and chemistry at E River Middle or High School. Um Kate Jansen, um choir teacher here at the Middle High School, as well as sixth grade over at Eber Elementary. Scott McKenzie, elementary special ed teacher, Steve Miller, math teacher here at North Pines High School. And then Pat Rickman, um third and fourth grade house St. So remarkable accomplishment by our staff here and I think these are rock stars
022we've talked about for a long time and it's great to see others recognize the same things that our our parents and students see day in and day out. So congratulations to them. And then going right into the next item on the agenda, the pine celebrations. Um with those you said the pe the recipients are nominated. Is that they're not Yeah, we they you it doesn't take you have to write it up a short write up and then it's an extensive process then to fill out the work to get get on top. You have to have letters recommendations. You have to show demonstrate some of your talent and things you've impacted. So it's a heck of a process. So to get five through is quite accomplishment. And then you have our Yeah. One of Yep. One
023of the things that I want to try and and see with the board and the community things, but I get spoiled to see all the great things our students do on a on a frequent basis. And um I think you know I couldn't stop smiling um more than normal the last two months. Um just one thing after the other the success similar to the uh coal awards but it was our students out there. Um so I you know we like to get them to come in and next month we will have some students here to show some of the things they've been working on. But I think on an ongoing basis, I'd like to highlight um across our district some of our students accomplishments. Um um Kevin Graphalmer and Jake Richards took students down to
024the Skills USA. And I bring these things up like Skills USA because one way to measure curriculum. Yes, there's a one-time one-day test for reading, math, so on. And those are important and we report those out all the time and we know there's opportunity for improvement. But there are other opportunities to demonstrate knowledge. You know, we talk about preparing learners for life. And some of these competitions in the state and at the national level tell us, are we preparing our kids to compete against the other best kids in the country and eventually the world? And Skills USA was a great example of that. You know, we had a woodworking display for middle school in the top five. We had team engineering challenge event that placed third for the high school division. And then we had
025three students who an entrepreneurship event placed first which qualifies them for the national competition. So kudos to the staff that are getting Skills USA going. It's a great program for our students. You might have heard of DECA in the past, but you know when Jake came on board, we talked to him about whatever it is you want to grow grow a program and Kevin Grapher stepped up and is helping him and Tim and Josh and Devin and others are working too and we really see as a collective effort with Nikki Garrison also could contribute to that as well over time. So it's just a Skills USA covers more than like DECA's more business and marketing. So but kudos to them. Um Dr. Marine um played a big role in the nine orthopine students win team
026character awards, right? If we want them to be prepared for life, let's recognize our future leaders and high quality students. And to have nine, how many were down there, Dan? I think we were how many? 36. Wow. Kudos to Dr. Marine and the team that put together and part of that. And Dan did attend that as well with those students. So kudos to those nine orthopedi students. Amazing. We talked about that. Um then Soore Middle School. Um they still do the National History Day. If you remember many years ago, we did a lot with National History Day and then Soore kind of took that torch and ran with it. Um Zoe Francifth graders um for their performance. And we had two students who qualified to move on to state as well. So great accomplishments there.
027um huge nomination list um for the Jerry Awards. Those results will come out in May. But just to get recognized to be nominated to have this many leads nominated, uh Kate and I were talking about this and that was the accomplishment in itself right there to have that many leads. And then finally, um some people in front of me here were a big part of this. I think it was Ashley shooting that really, you know, kept us on the top or is it Nick's coaching? I don't know. Uh but kudos. What a community event it really was. It It's inspiring to see the North Pines area and includes this year we had some Rylander. We had a wide range of law enforcement which is great to see and staff teachers as well. Um but they
028raised $23,999 for the Kitsro family. So um Danny's 2024 Pines alumni who is battling cancer. So it's just a kudos to this community the business that donated then um kudos I know Jim Byer is a big part of helping it and um we have a big deputy who helps run it down thank you my tongue there so thank you but amazing uh the work that goes out and they mentioned our community members businesses have just said okay we're ready what do you need for this event because they just see how good it is that's helped so many people and families in need so just wanted to highlight um those great things going on in our district and I look to kind of continue to do that as we move forward. I know our principles do
029a great job in their reports sharing out a lot of the great learning that takes place, but I also wanted to kind of highlight some of these things that show that our curriculum and our staff are doing great things as well. I didn't hear who was it that one badges one was it was When we got to the fourth quarter, it became pretty serious. It was a good game. Uh, record attendance, record amount of funds raised, fourth year. Each year it keeps growing. So, it's it's a great thing to be a part of even though I my other team lost. Mr. Zia was the winning coach with this. He's not here, but give credit where it's looking like a good rivalry. fuels the fire. Good strategy by the books to hire a former wrestling co
030wrestler to be our basketball coach, but we'll go move that forward. He seems to win, so we'll just keep keep it going. So, that's great. All right, moving forward on our written reports for principles, directors, and supervisors. Um, are there any um of those people stated above that would like to add anything to their written reports provided to us in the board? Any highlights? I'll add because it wasn't in my report. Thursday and Friday we had our spring. Just a shout out to Rachel Strong. Scott mentioned earlier that Kelly was there but she also did a spring in Atlanta. So she three spring last week. She did an amazing job with it. So shout out to Rachel Strong. Her leadership takes months of preparation for an amazing job. one of the only events that we
031had like one of the few events that we had like almost 100% attendance that come to it. really good and she does an amazing job also of not only teaching the kids music but also making interdisiplinary learning this year of the great lakes so all kinds of science concepts along with that great job there is a band concert tonight at 7 just anybody's interested continue with the music. So, anybody else have any adden this year that I will be crying or is it Oh, you already have it. No, it's too um the scholarship night next Monday night um May 5th, 6:30 I believe. And um once again, this wonderful community provides um so many different scholarships from local clubs and churches and organizations and family memorial endowments and it's just really one of the best
032nights and regardless if I have a student in it I that is fine. Um but I it's just one of the best nights of the year to really bring the community together and show the kids that hey guys this is why you do 60 hours of community service from 7 through 12 and to really connect back to where they're going with their future. So that is next Monday. And so there is a letter at your table for the our three counselors, Mrs. Tanley, Mrs. Tibble, and Mrs. Steer if you are available to present, which is also a very cool thing to present to kids. Let me know down and just for those who don't know, you show up and as long as they know you're coming, they'll have some scholarships for you to read. to
033award for organizations that might not be able to themselves. All right. We also have our school resource officer monthly report in your board packet as well. So now since your district administrator report will go on to um the update on the RA girls. Yeah, the board and person in finance asked for me to keep them up to date. Kudos to the hardworking people out at the RRA. Um specifically Jenny Rancis has been in communication with me and AJ and Dan all along the process. Um they broke ground. You saw an invitation in your packet from that but just important is the momentum to get this over the finish line and get this completed. So, we have a lot of room for next season for the girls. Um, you know, we're seeing some larger donations and
034they still need more to finish it, but the momentum is growing. Today, we found out about a $25,000 donation from the foundation. It's coming through the North House Foundation. Um, the Rotary donated will be announced to be donating 67,000. So, the momentum and And then there's lots of great vendors. I I share those local community business owners who are giving time donation of time and talent and knowledge and and hard work. So kudos to everybody who's stepping up to make this a dream and reality for generations of female hockey players to come at North Pines and across this community. So just want to keep the positive going there and give you some pictures and updates. A lot of things will happen in May if they keep to schedule with the weather and everything else going
035on. So, um I did give in your packet and there was some of these at the back table if anybody in the um public came in tonight. Um Bayard always puts out a referendum flyer about what has taken on um for referendums. You know, April was a very large month. Um number of non-reoccurrings is at 53 now there's four when we went in February there's four there's 53 um 30 pass 23 did fail so the asset percentage continues to drop um if you look at all the questions 56% passed this last round and for the year um now there's been 57 referendums and 33 passed and 24 failed. So that's something as aformational um you know ours is done and for three years it's good to keep an eye on trends and patterns and and
036things that you know can learn from others and keep getting better. Maybe uh the next thing is and I did put in your packet. It's a you were invited to go to Medford to a legislative meeting. Um our legislators did not attend. Most of them were from the western side of the state. Um so but they did hack on I think there's a couple highlights um under state budget because that was the big topic um there was a some a lot was on equity and fairness in the current budget um you know if you look at if if they would have left inflation in and I talked about this during the referendum cycle when the original law was passed to limit our ability to raise taxes if they would have just left the inflation index
037in there like it was originally before they stopped we would be looking at three 3,380 more dollars per pupil. That would be very close to a referendum. It wouldn't be quite what a referendum is, but just to show most districts that have gone to referendum, if that would have been left in there, we would just be with inflation. So, that's something that was pointed out at this meeting. Um, also, your vocabulary over the coming months with the state budget is going to grow. Um hopefully one of the terms I think this one's really critical in the last state budget they said they were going to raise the state special ed funding to 33% which is still far below what it should be but at the time that is um they did um some certain which
038means they gave a dollar amount in among eligible districts this year, this only the second year of the state budget, that's going to end up being less than 30%. Even though they advertised when they passed the budget, it' be 33%. We raised it to 33. Well, because of the need, it's not even going to get to 30%. So, that's why we would like to see some sufficient. That's where they give enough money for all that's eligible. So, they estimate it, but then they make sure they cover it. There's numerous things in the state budget when advertised, you have to make sure Is that some certain or some sufficient? So, just some terminologies we'll be watching. Um, I do think the the momentum from my meetings with meeting with our legislators and even other people around
039the state, the special ed topic is really starting to catch momentum. Legislators are are finally understanding that we're not going to ever because it's a very strict process to get somebody who has an IP and the cost related to it. We're not we would be losing money if we added. There's always been this idea that well if we raise that you'll have more special ed kids. Nobody's going to do that. One, it's against the law. And two, we're still never going to get to where we're ever breaking even. So why would we want to incur more cost? So what most groups are asking for is if we could get to 60%. That would be a huge jump and really be impactful on all students. Just so you know, we transfer 2 35 million from fund
04010 to fund 27. It is state law that you cannot have a negative fund 27. So we have to move general budget dollars over to make sure we cover that. It is an accounting move. But if we were to get that extra 30% that's, you know, over 1.7 million that we could use across all students in our budget and you as a board would have control locally of what we would spend that on. So, and that is our Northland Pines taxpayers dollars that went to Madison in the form of sales tax, property or not property tax, sales tax, personal income tax. That's money that went to Madison is never coming back to our district unless it comes to us in categical aid because we do not get state aid. So, um, so that's something that
041we'll be monitoring very closely that was talked about at this meeting. Um, I just wanted to highlight a couple things from the budget that you'll see coming up. Um, also highlighted in your packet tonight is um, fund or act 20. I I really in in our district, I like to call it the ability to improve reading because I I'm not against that at all. But when it's dictated to one size fit all in a in a method that legislators came up with to tell us how to do it, it doesn't make it cost effective at all of our districts. So um there is a lot more money which they did not give us any more money just gave us more mandates to train our staff and test students. Um it also um piloting and adopting
042other curriculums is also something that we'll be evaluating during this act 20 process. That's time and money as well. So that isn't coming from the state. So the last thing on state budget um in your packet that I want to tell you about is the other big push in the state and I have not been quite as big on this is they want to increase our low revenue limit. So the big thing the last state budget is we were at $10,645 per student. We were one of the lower ones in the state. They want to get everybody closer to what the top people get. So, you know, you have districts that get 10 or get 12 and 14,000 per student. We only get we were only getting 10 six. So, they made it 11,000 minimum
043in year 1 and 11,325 in year two. So, those already at the top didn't get to go up. Just those of us that were lower went up to that first 11,000. So, we got a little more in year one. There are people that like to see that go to 12,650 and everybody would be like that is great. Let's do that. And I, you know, that is great. Unfortunately though, in a district like ours and some of our neighbors that doesn't get state aid, that's going to fall in the back of our taxpayers. Whereas in other districts that get state aid, a big chunk of going to be funded back. So, I have not been advocating for that. They're like, "Well, why wouldn't you want that money?" And I'm like, I do want that money, but
044my taxpayers already send money to Madison to help bank some of these other higher districts. So, that's one we'll keep an eye on. Taran and I have not been as big an advocate of that because that's directly that's Madison saying you can check tax your local taxpayers, but we're not going to supplement it in every district. So, that's something that we'll watch. I am going to Wasa tomorrow to testify at joint finance committee on behalf of our taxpayers, students, and staff. I know it's a lot of time to go and speak for two minutes, but I'm I do think it's one important. U during the referendum presentations, I was asked multiple times, what do you do to advocate on our behalf with the governor and the state legislators? And besides having meetings and writing them,
045I think showing up at these meetings is important to represent us. And I will be giving two examples. One will be the building trades program because something Senator Prescowski has told me is give us examples of what money goes for. So I'm going to use the building trades program and the CLC is two programs that impact kids, all kids in a positive way. I I only get two minutes, so trust me, two minutes is hard to trim a speech down and get your point across. But I'll be advocating for funds for special ed so that we can use those across across our district and that's not going to impact our taxpayers. So that's a win-win when I if we can make some movement in that area. So just wanted to give you an update. The
046other news that I got about state budget is there's a really good chance we will not see a state budget on time and that's not great news for anybody. But I will remind you when you hear that is Wisconsin is not like the federal government. It doesn't shut down. Wisconsin has a law that says last year's budget becomes this year's budget if nothing has changed. So, it does kind of keep everybody at their normal spot. So, that's something we'll keep an eye on and I'll keep you up to date as we go through there. So, u next thing on our agenda here is um Principal Dufac and Principal Nordine and myself went to Naida County Sheriff's Department put on a a presentation called sex extortion and technology safety and it was very well done. Um,
047very alarming. As somebody who's been involved in this for a very long time, as a tech director for nine years, um, to see how fast it's changing is probably the most scary thing to me. I did put this in public view for those that would like this. If you'd like a hard copy, I'd be happy to give it to you. Uh but really what the manipulation of our students and young children across this country through gaming systems and their phones um it was kind of disappointing to only see about 30 people there again you know and that's kind of the level when we do it you know Harland and the sheriff's department here has done these before um so it is alarming um and really the information is um critical and important because frankly we
048see what they're talking about as far there's students meeting somebody online and thinking they're somebody else and they really are. So, um we are going to do this presentation with the Miles County Sheriff's Department in our SROS first thing in the fall. Um we feel with our students and our staff and I should say our students our staff will see it with the students but then we'll do it with families as well. Um right away in the fall when school starts but um it is critical. I hope that people that have kids take time to look at this and have that hard conversation because it is life-changing. Um, we lost a student in DC ever school district and it happened so fast. It didn't wasn't a long period of time. It was a lot of
049guilt and things that happened quick and then one of the other examples was out of Marquette, Michigan, which isn't that far from us either. So, so it happens and it's very sad. Also, human trafficking was talked about at that meeting. So, that was part of Um, we tal also remember graduation, hard to believe we're going to hit May. So, graduation is June 1st and then alumni hall of fame is at 10:00 a.m. on that same date. I also just Two quick ones. You probably saw a lot of the news about some WIA changes. We'll bring that information to policy. Um they're very one of them I think is I campaigned against it and still passed. AJ and I are working on making sure we support our coaches and our community on that one. That's unlimited
050practice time in months of June and July except for the week of the fourth. Um I advocated on behalf of our business owners and also our coaches and our student athletes against it. But it is here. So what we do as leaders is when we have some rule change, we have to make the best of it. So we AJ and I and Dan and Harland can work on that and make sure coaches and student athletes are supported. And finally, I just want to thank Nick and Paul. Both attended, you know, another meeting there. You as board members already have a lot, but both Nick and Paul attended the WSB um new board on board training with me at Lakeland Union High School last week. So kudos to them for taking time to get better and
051it's always every I've been to it quite a few times and I would say I learned something a little bit each time. So kudos to them for going and keep a lot of things we're doing well but things we always can tweak a little bit and Susie and I can discuss. So my report that concludes our business of the regular board meeting. Thank you everybody for coming this evening. I will make the will now to close session. Let's see. I will make the motion to adjurnn to close session pursuant to the provisions of Wisconsin statute 18.22 19.85 subsection 1NC for considering employment promotion compensation or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility. The purpose of the closed session is to consider the issuance of certified
052staff contracts and compensation for 2526, to discuss support staff compensation for 2526, to discuss the executive assistance contract and compensation for 2526, and to discuss the district administrator's contract and compensation for 2526. At this time, I'll do a roll call. Oh, sorry. Okay. Yes. Yes. Jennifer, yes. Yes. Just roing.