001School Board of Education meeting for Pewwaukee Public Schools this Monday, May 18th. Um, roll call. Mary >> here. >> Travis >> here. >> Ashley >> here. Matt >> here. >> Larry >> here. and Stacy Newcomer is absent this evening. Was the meeting properly noticed? >> The meeting was properly noticed. >> And could I get a motion to adopt the agenda? >> So move. >> Second. All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? >> Oppose. >> We'll do the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. >> All right. Well, we're going to step right into our student board report. Ladies, take it away. Right. Good evening everybody.
002It's nice weather outside. It finally feels like summer. All right. So for our May board report, the first topic we wanted to discuss was Hope Squad. So Hope Squad's been doing a lot of stuff lately. They recently had a guest speaker, Daen Scott. Um she's the Wellpoint Care Network therapist. And on Tuesday, May 19th, she came to kind of she's coming to talk to students about um just like helping support other students with their mental health, but also taking care of themselves amidst final season. Um and I guess APs are over, but kind of recouping after that. It's a stressful time. Um aside from that, PWA alumni, um Zara and Ben came to visit or they did like a Zoom kind of thing. Um, and it was just an interview, very casual, but they had
003students come in to kind of learn about the transition to college and how to care for your mental health while having a huge adjustment, a transition in life. Um, and then they're also doing critter yoga for stress reliefs after um, AP exams. So, they're doing a lot of stuff and it's all cool and very interesting that they're bringing in a lot of guest speakers for resource. >> What kind of critters? >> I think they said it was goats. Um, they're having some goats, bunnies. I think there's one dog and a couple of cats. Yeah, it's a local company that does like some critter yoga. So, very interesting. Yeah. Um, and then next we have Global Business Insight. So, there this is kind of their season where they're pairing with local businesses to help them with
004marketing or fundraising, whatever it may be. So um Mathnesium was one of them that they worked with and the students actually coordinated um with Ma Mathnesium in Brookfield on marketing and business development and they hosted the math night at Horizon. That was May 6th. They offered math games and hands-on activities. From what I heard it was a huge success. Um and then uh another half of the students are working with Journey 21 um which is a Wakaua County nonprofit corporation dedicated to enriching living and learning opportunities for adults with intellectual or development um disabilities. So and then they also held a Doc Hounds fundraiser um for May 15th um and just like fundraising and you know making earning some money. So yeah, they've been doing that lately. So wellness day is this Friday. We've done
005it the past few years on the day of the senior picnic. Student council organizes it. There's always a few different activities. So right now I think I'm hosting a walk on the trails and card games in Mr. K's room, but always a bunch of activities. There's like coloring, friendship bracelet making, study hall, like whatever you might need. It's on May 22nd this year. There's, like I said, just a few activities, just whatever that student might find their way to practice wellness since it's different for everyone, and it's meant to provide relaxation and fun before finals. Junior prom happened last weekend. It was organized by Miss Girdman. She is the junior last adviser and a student led prom committee. It was on May 9th. We hosted at the Brookfield Conference Center like we have the past
006few years and large large arrange for court. There's a lot of people but Addy O' Connor and Kaden Bernes are prom queen and king this year. For athletics and activities, track has been very busy. Julia Piper, Vanessa Johnson, and Kate Rowski all have broken individual school records, and we do relay conference, which is a little unique, but Natalie Blackwood, Joe Blackwood, and Isabella Brown broke the school record in the pool vault relay. Girls soccer is currently number one in conference with a 5 to1 conference record. Girls softball is 15 to five at their concert, oh my goodness, their conference record. Baseball is second in conference with a standing of six to two. lacrosse had. So, we have a co-op with Okcon. They've been hosting a few games at PHS. One of their most recent games
007here, they partnered up with BPA and Arrowheads and I think even Okcon's chapter of Forkans Message just to share the influence that mental health has on athletes and the importance of it. Student council members went to WAC State, that's the Wisconsin Association of School Councils. So, it's always just like a conference that talks about leadership and different games. It's really fun. And then the sophomore class held a fundraiser at Chipotle. And there was the spring band concert with I think the pops concert for choir happening this Wednesday. All right. And then for our salutes and recognitions, we wanted to recognize teachers as teacher appreciation week was May 4th through 8th. Um and then the winner of the open door award ceremony categories. Um that was a really great opportunity, super well organized and I just
008thought the event was really great. And then yearbook um did an amazing job of finishing their final yearbook product. And then for our learning spotlight. >> So AP testing is finally over. It's been a long few weeks. I know everyone is really excited for it to be done. I know Bobby is excited to get back to his morning announcements. CCHS US history. We do like a community night where we do extended PHIs. This year our theme is PWA 150. So we are presenting those at the Clark House on May 22nd. In serving others, like many other insights, we are doing a capstone day. So all the different insight classes present their final projects throughout that day. And then this past Friday, we volunteered at the women's and girls fund of WAL lunchon. So we just
009kind of helped them set up, check people in. It was a lot of fun. It was an experience that like obviously you're not getting from most classes. And it felt like a good partnership because we had already talked to Nicole Wagner, the executive director of the Women's and Girls Fund. So, it felt like a good way to continue that relationship. >> Yeah. And then um for Model United Nations with Mr. Douglas, we had a studentrun class activities in Bellwork that's still going on, but it's just a really nice way to allow students to take charge of their own learning. And then today, we actually had the opportunity to listen to Dr. Pedum Doom um who was a previous Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi. So that was a really cool opportunity. It was someone a student
010here's grandfather. So just getting to hear about the experience and what he learned was super valuable. And then um and current issues with Mr. Hman learning about vexalology and the state flags um and just picking like a state and then focusing on um the symbolism and importance of the state flag. And yeah, that's what we have for May. >> Thank you. >> That was an awesome report. Does anyone have any questions for the Gals? Then I want to honor Anna on behalf of the board. This is her last night, her last board meeting with us. Um, a while back I was had the privilege of awarding Anna a scholarship from the school board. And I want to read just a little bit about [clears throat] what I said about her that night. Anna has a
011powerful story, one that begins with a simple act of kindness, but reveals a much deeper calling. Her compassion for others is not just something she feels, but something she acts on. From organizing fundraisers at a young age to leading efforts that have raised significant support and awareness for important causes, Anna has consistently demonstrated a commitment to making a meaningful difference. She speaks to a desire not just to help in the moment but to create lasting change with aspirations of using the field of law to advocate for others and build a better future. Her empathy, leadership, and drive to pursue justice truly set her apart. Anna has always been a valued member of the board of education, serving as a student representative. Her thoughtful perspective and dedication to her fellow students have made a lasting impact.
012We will truly miss your insightful and wellspoken opinions, reports, and comments that you have shared. Anna, thank you for your service, your strength, and your heart. [applause] [clears throat] And where are we going to school next year? >> Madison. >> Jump around. >> Yep. [laughter] >> Why don't you just tell everybody about your major and >> Sure. Yeah. Um, well, I'm majoring in legal studies on a pre-law track. I'm really excited. Um, and yeah, I chose this path mostly because I've had an internship with the local pewwaukee judge, um, Melissa Marray, um, for the municipal court, and it's been a really great experience between visiting circuit and district courts in Milwaukee and, um, just kind of overseeing pew municipal court hearings. It's been a great opportunity and just further enforce my interest in law. >>
013Yay. have gone to WMadison. >> Oh, um I'm fifth generation. So, >> fifth generation [laughter] Badger. Okay. So, you had no choice. >> Yeah. >> That is so awesome. >> Well, thank you. >> Thank you. >> We are going to miss you. >> Truly. >> And then we look forward to the legacy little sister coming to take your >> little sister replacing her. [laughter] >> It is great. Thank you so much. Um, next up, spotlight on learning is actually uh Brian Sniff, our high school principal, is here and he is going to introduce this year's valadictorian and saludiatoran. >> All right. Well, speaking of fun seniors to celebrate, uh, I'd like to invite Ma and Maddie to step up with me here. So, every year we like to recognize our saludiatoran and valadictorian of, uh,
014this year the class of 2026. Uh these are two fine students who have um obviously persevered and dedicated themselves to their education in a way that exceeds all others and that's why they earn this uh particular recognition. Uh a lot of hard work, a lot of dedication, a lot of late nights probably, a lot of um maybe phone calls to friends and trying to get that extra little bit of help uh seeing their teachers. Um but they've done it all and done a fabulous job. Um I'll start with Ma real quickly. Um I've actually gotten to know Ma uh really well. He's been a dedicated member of the principal advisory board over the last four years. And so I've truly enjoyed uh that opportunity, but also a member of FBLA uh tennis uh and robotics
015has certainly been a very exciting uh portion of his career here. And Maddie uh Mattie's been a member for a long time of Best Buddies uh National Honor Society as well as basketball. She performs incredibly well out on the court uh contributing to some of our state runs. And so uh congratulations to the both of them. They both have a little bit of a different background in PWA. Uh, when did you start here? >> 4K. >> In 4K. And when did you start here? >> Sophomore year. >> Right. So, uh, they have some different perspectives they might want to share. And so, I'm going to turn it over to you. You guys always have some wonderful questions for, uh, these two fine students. >> Go ahead, Lar. >> Well, I have actually two questions and
016I sort of gave Maddie a little bit of a preview. So, what are some of the best things or best experiences you had while you've been in school here? That's first question. And then second question is, what advice would you give to incoming freshmen for next year's class? >> Gotta have you on the live stream, so if you're not on the mic, [laughter] okay? >> Well, my best experiences have definitely just been like building relationships and making friends. And I think I've done that a lot through basketball and also just like all my classes and saying hi to people in the hallway. So, I'd tell people going to high school to really get involved. Like, like I said, join basketball, but also join clubs, join sports, because when you get to be an upper classman,
017it gets a little harder to join those things, too. >> Kind of similar. My best experience has definitely been making really deep relationships with like since our school being like connected from all the way from 4K to PHS. So, I've met a lot of people that I've known for that entire time and it makes it makes for some really good friendships and you know, even like [snorts] when my friends have moved away, it's like u like I've had a friend moved to California, I still keep in contact with him and that that's a really that's a really unique experience. >> What advice do you have though for freshman? freshman. The biggest advice I'd have is pushing yourself to do things that are like not easy. Like I know a lot of people tend, especially in
018their freshman year, they tend to think like to not comprehend the like importance of that initial groundwork. And I've had friends who like they get burned because they didn't try as much in their freshman year. and I see that they're doing so well and like later on, but they just keep having that freshman year bring them down. So, trying really hard from early on is really important. >> I have a question. So, when the two of you walk out of here May 30th after graduation and you think back on your years here at Pewwaukee High School, is there a moment that you'll say, "That's what I'm most proud of. That's what I'm most proud that I accomplished. >> I think just like moments where you're involved in the community, like the community here is really
019great and like sure like you can accomplish a lot in school and you can get good grades, but I think the mo most important thing is when you make a positive impact on other people. So maybe like coaching the youth basketball camps or like something like that. Just bringing a community together and like helping make a positive impact. >> It's great. >> Um for me it was definitely qualifying for worlds for robotics this year. It had been a goal of mine for like eight years now. um in in my last year I was finally able to get it and it was just really cool to see everything finally lead up to that moment where we qualified and was able to go and experience it. That was like one of the most incredible incredible feelings I've
020had just because it's I've been like trying for so long. So that's definitely the thing I'm most proud of. >> Yeah. I So what's next for both of you college wise and just career aspirations? Uh, so I'm going to WashU in St. Louis and I'm playing basketball and majoring in applied math and I'm not really sure what I want to do yet, but I was like in between engineering and finance. That's kind of why I went into applied math. >> Uh, I'm also planning to head down to WMadison to do computer engineering. >> That fits. Yeah. [laughter] >> So, both of you are okay at math. That's what we're saying. >> Yes. Any questions from anyone else? >> Ask them. So, if you're looking back now over your career and time in PWA, any recommendations
021for us as a board, anything you'd like to see us change or that we should have changed? >> Can't think of anything at the moment. >> I'm guessing added on a little earlier in your career. >> Oh, yeah. [laughter] >> Better late than never. [clears throat] >> No, I think has been like a great school and I've had a great experience here. So, >> I think for the most part it's it's been really fun. >> Awesome. >> Well, congratulations. You guys have set a heck of a standard for everybody else. So, best of luck to both of you and thanks for being here tonight. >> Yeah. [snorts] Thank you. >> [applause] >> All right. Next, we have um citizen comments. Uh nope, sorry. I'm going to go back to salutes and recognitions. We cannot forget
022that. And honestly, I think we have a ton of them tonight. So, I'm going to start us out. My first salute goes to we had our ribbon cutting and our open house for the steam hub. What a great evening. It was well attended. I want to say thank you to Tammy um for all your organization for Miranda for her um marketing um everything she's done to make that space just brilliant. Um I I think of um the admin that were there, teachers that were there, um students who participated. Wow. I was blown away. These students were they they could hardly speak sometimes. They were so excited to talk about this equipment and rave about it. I mean, it was excellent. The culinary area, these kids, I mean, that food was divine. I want to get
023that lasagna recipe. and the way they spoke about their food and how they prepared it. I I felt so proud. Um, a special thank you to Ben Lamp and Nelson Bernell. Um, and Brian Sniff and Mike Katie. Um, I where do I stop? John, uh, for all your work with this project. CGM, I'm gonna forget people. Mike >> uh Ryan Demar Zalie Olson uh Ignasio uh >> what's that >> Nelson she did she didn't say Nelson >> Adriana for your part helping us >> so um I I was just so proud I thought it was just a really awesome awesome night and for you girls for doing a amazing job with that big scissors >> the ribbon cut handle the big scissors like you've done it 100 [laughter] times >> they're real heavy [clears throat]
024Um, second salute goes to our strategic planning um, event where we had Monday and Wednesday nights and um, you know, I want to thank again Tammy and Mike and um, administration that were here, uh, teachers that were here, parents, students. I was blown away the first night I walked in with a group of seventh grade young guys and I said, "Don't be afraid to talk." Well, my goodness, they weren't. >> Ashley and I ended up in a room with a bunch of them and we were absolutely blown away. Their comments were so mature, so professional and they were just honest and frank, but it was great, you know. So, um I was blown away by that um event as well. And congratulations to the robotics team. Am I correct in saying we're now going to
025>> they did they went to the World Championships in Houston. Um and >> you know what the result >> they didn't win. I know that >> because we'd be throwing a ticker tape parade if that happened. But >> um >> but the fact that they made it there >> Yeah. competing with teams all over the world. And if you're familiar with First, First is about it's a competition, but what they thrive on is is the collaboration across teams and and so it's both competitive, but if your opponent um if in their pit their robot breaks down, you'll be you'll seeing all these teams kind of rallying and making sure they have the parts if they're missing something just to help them. Um and and that is one of the some of the highest awards you
026can earn at first competitions is that kind of spirit. Um so uh yeah, it's great to be successful and and to to win things, but um it's it's very unique if you haven't been around first before. It's something you should try to experience. And it's really >> I can't think of a better example of authentic learning uh for students than really what First Robotics provides where you have the kids doing complex uh things with technology and engineering, mathematics, working alongside professional engineers that are that give so generously their time to our kids. So, it's just a great >> it's a great situation. >> So proud of that program. And and just add to that, I know we usually typically have a presentation by the robotics team sometime later in the summer, but to see it
027and to also watch all of the companies that are involved in supporting it, but our local volunteers, whether it's somebody from the Caliber Collision or GE, I mean, these people put in a lot of time in terms of working get them to that level where they could go uh to the world competition kind of thing. There's 600 participants in the world competition. It's a big big number of kids that are involved in that. >> Thirdly, Stacy is not here. So on her behalf, I want to salute the Open Door Awards. Um it was a great evening. There was so much work done by so many people. She specifically mentioned Tammy, Miranda, Mike, Colin, Adriana, James, the student servers, Chartwells, Larry, and all of our donors. Um, but lastly, we need to thank Stacy because I
028know she was also involved in um last year's and this year's um Open Door Awards. So, again, another great program. Mike, I'll let you build off of that. >> Yeah, I'm just trying to think if there's anybody. Uh, you got Tammy. Tammy and Miranda were so huge in it. Adriana, her work with the student presenters. I thought the student presenters were stars of the show. Uh we have friends from CG Schmidt here tonight. They were one of our sponsors. Epstein Euan was another one of our sponsors that helped make this uh possible. Um we had a special surprise with some of our retire our former leaders coming back to recognize our retirees with um making a surprise appearance with Joanne Sterny and John Mulch, Marty Van Hulie, and Danielle um which was uh really wellreceived.
029So that was fun. Um but yeah, it's it's two years in. It's been a really fun event. Uh it's a lot of work. Um and [snorts] um uh but uh yeah, it's it's always really enjoyable. So >> any other board members with salutes? >> Uh just a couple things. So one, I did attend the dual enrollment academy over at WCTC last Friday and very pleased to say that we had six or seven graduates from there. And I know Tammy if you'd rather catch them there was something that published on it but it was Axel Beck in building construction trades uh welding and fabrication Jaden Jahuski uh there was also let's see Erin Yesus is an IT system specialist uh school of business IT system specialist Cecilia Scott was involved in it we also had Samantha
030Kerban who was in early childhood Elena Dolphin and firefighter emergency medical technician so there were in total about six or seven students that were involved in that program. So, and it's a great thing. I mean, these kids are earning college or WCT level credits while they're there and they will for the most part also then get their high school diploma on May 30th here. So, they are really set to go in terms of jobs and careers and things like that. So, it's a great program out there and we need to promote it and support it. So, >> thank you for attending that graduation, Larry. [snorts] >> Yes. Thank you. Admin, any salutes? I wanted to salute our partners who beat me to it uh in the project as we hit the home stretch on the
031referendum work from 2024, April 2024, our partners at Epstein, UNC, CG Schmidt, and uh those people who have been really involved, John Stangler, Olivia Gil, and the day-to-day execution of this plan. So, um great job and great teamwork throughout to to bring it to fruition. >> Anthony, anything? >> I do not have any tonight. >> Nothing for me tonight. >> Okay. Um Tammy, any citizen comments? >> All right. Thank you. Uh consent agenda. Uh that includes the minutes from previous meetings that would have been uh April 27th, the regular meeting and policy committee meeting minutes. Uh correspondence included in your packet. And also we have one gift tonight. Um, a generous gift of $2,000 was received from Karen Rashki uh for the Piwaki High School robotics team. Thank you. Thank you um to Karen for
032that very generous gift. Always welcomed and so well used. Um so if I could get a motion to accept the consent agenda. >> So moved. >> Second. All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? >> Abstain. Next, business affairs committee, John. Matt. >> Yep. Uh, so tonight we business affairs committee met. Uh, we review check registers, financial report. Um, John gave us a summer projects update and a monthly capital projects update. Um, in terms of the financial report, just a couple notable revenues. So, $21.5 million today from tax revenues. There's still 7.1 still remaining, but not due until August. and $595,000 in interest, which is a majority from the construction funds. Uh biggest notable receipts in April, we had $598,000 in lottery aid and $228,000 in common school funds. Uh in terms of total, so total
033revenue, we're at 59.6% received. Total expense is at 73.8% spent, which is very normal for this time of year. Uh in terms of summer projects, there's a whole slew of summer projects that we've got going on. Uh flooring at Horizon, completion of the solar panels, updates to the message center sign, turf replacement, track structural spray, Horizon maker space, the large group instruction, ASA culinary uplift, oxygen bleachers, expansion of the district office parking lot, and um various auditorium items being updated and replaced as long as and along with the district office start bing and reorganization. Uh so a lot of things happening this summer all are expected to be done by the end of this summer with the exception of the oxygen bleeders. Uh after that we preliminarily we still anticipate having some remaining funds and
034if so that will be transferred over to the debt service fund to reduce the tax levy. In terms of the monthly capital project update um just a couple notable things we're at 90.6% spent which is about 25.8 8 million and um we have 700 just over $777,000 of cumulative earnings from interest of an projected 800,000. >> John, I don't know if there's anything else >> that touched on all. >> Excellent. >> Two questions. >> The um school [snorts] >> right after what you said about lottery, what's what was that called? Common school. >> Common school fund. Uh could you tell me about that and how often do we get that? >> Common school funds are calculated each year and they're order districts every district in the state gets a perated share of the common school
035fund library aid it's considered. Uh it's it covers any items from library media audiovisisual um equipment uh some computer equipment all things that are generally housed in the library and checked out into the building. the the the funds have increased every year for the last five to seven years. It's been record funding levels. It's based on a per pupil basis and distributed throughout the state. Um based based largely in part on earnings from the state trust fund from the board of commissioners of public lands. >> That was the piece I was missing. >> Yeah. >> Okay. And that comes how often? >> Once a year. Okay. >> We get it certified in January and it is paid in April. >> Okay. Last question. What is the current debt for the district? >> Let me get
036let me get you that. I believe I believe we're total principal outstanding. >> Let me let me look. >> Okay. I think you he gave some interest numbers, so I thought I missed it. Thank you. >> Um I don't I'm curious. So, uh the administrative building parking lot, can can we get an update on that? Like where is it going to be and how many new spaces are we going to yield out of that? It'll be part of the >> You saw a picture? >> Yeah. The >> presentation. It'll be in the presentation. >> Oh, it will. >> It's not part of that. >> Summer projects presentation is at the uh at the business affairs. >> But I thought I saw a slide in the Didn't you show me a slide in the >> That
037was the summer project. >> That was the wrong [laughter] one. Look at the wrong area. Go ahead, John. >> You take the existing parking lot where we have it. The area to the south of that is currently within our CSM. is within the um institutional area that the district has. Uh we will expand the lot to the south. Uh we'll include some small retaining wall area to reduce some of the the elevation change. Uh, and we'll add a net of nine additional parking spaces out there, which will allow us to free up spaces on the north side of PLE where the student drop off is to have a drop off zone only so that we're not having as much traffic on that north side of the building when students are coming through that champions entrance
038>> for the daycare for the wraparound program. >> So, that was approved at the planning commission on Thursday. >> That's awesome. >> Great. >> Okay. You said south to the north. >> No, to the south >> towards the welcome to Milwaukee school district sign going that way. >> Yeah, there's not a whole lot of space there though, right? >> Yeah, the um we attempted a couple of times to get because the land to the north towards the neighborhood is uh zoned differently, zoned residential. Uh we've presented a couple of times about changing that zoning, but um that was denied. So, we went in the other direction. >> All right. Can I get a motion? >> Move to accept the business affairs report as presented. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? >>
039Opposed. >> All right. Next is old business. And both of these items um were talked about and considered at the April 27th meeting. And the first one is consideration and possible approval of the 2627 budget and staffing plan. >> Uh so in your packet of provided information uh we the course of action for the district typically on this will be present the budget by board policy that has to be presented by April 30th. The proposed budget for the upcoming year. Um that was that was done at our last board meeting in April. Uh and then any questions that board members have or additional insights that they would like into that information, we we will provide at this meeting and then the board will take action to adopt the preliminary budget. Again, this gives us the
040spending authority to get the year going. Uh the original budget for the district is adopted in October after three main pieces of information are determined. First is the third Friday in September pupil count. That's used to determine our revenue limit for the year. The second bit of information is the property values within the district which is certified around the 1 of October that works with the aortionment of the levy across the community. And the third piece of information is the certification of equalization aid that comes out by October 15th. Once that's done, then we adopt the original budget for the year. Sounds odd. You adopt the original budget at the end of October at the same time when you set the tax levy for the year. The preliminary budget is what we utilize to inform
041at the annual meeting. Uh this year was a little unique as of last Friday with or last week Wednesday uh with the action that the state was doing on this surplus expenditure bill uh with a with a greater than $2.5 billion surplus expected in the state this bianium. There was agreement to the terms of how to utilize that to provide some additional support for districts to provide additional tax relief uh for every community in the state and to have some return of a of an income tax package. That that measure failed uh late on Wednesday night. [clears throat] So initially when we had pro sent the memo to the board we had suggested we may wait until June 8th to give us the opportunity to um integrate those changes had they had happened. They didn't
042happen. So what stands right now is current law and that's what the preliminary budget you received in April is based on. So my recommendation would be to move forward and have the discussion and um action on the adoption of the preliminary operating budget as presented. >> Any questions? John, wouldn't would you would seem appropriate to have that debt number handy as well as the amount of interest we're paying service-wise annually on that debt in the budget discussion. Are you are you able to pull? >> Yeah, that was all included in the in the documents that you are able to pull it up. The current as of 712026 outstanding principal debt is 46,290,000 for the district. Um I don't have the the interest added up there. Um roughly $9 million in interest cost also >> per
043year >> total for the next over the next uh 12 years. So, uh, Matt referenced, I think Matt, you were talking about income interest, >> interest earnings, revenue, >> right? How much of that interest goes against the annual payment interest that we're making? >> Again, that that would have been a great question to have in advance. I'd have to generate some >> John, I have much too much faith in you. I mean, you know this stuff. Co, >> I could I can look that up. Um, that interest earnings on debt service, we we hold the debt service for a short amount of time. So the debt service funds you get come in as part of your January levy and you're paying out typically in March your principal payments with some principal payments in September. So
044the total amount that's levied is really with the district for a shorter period of time. The interest earnings that was referenced here uh was linked to the interest earnings primarily on the construction funds that had been invested up until the point in time when we needed them to pay for the bills. Right. So, uh I guess what I'm asking you is the bird's eye just those those three numbers which you gave me you g me the 46 million >> and then there is an annual service interest on that and then there's the service excuse me the interest that we are getting taking in >> what is the gap between those two do you have a recollection as to what it's been in the past >> not off the top of my head it varies year
045to year because you're going to have different debt schedules you'll have funds invested for longer periods of time >> right but by percentage Are we doing 50%, are we doing 10%, 90%. >> Uh, interest rates have been they peaked out at about five and a quarter percent. They're running about 3.6% right now on what's invested from that. >> Yeah. No, not I'm sorry. The amount that you're take we're taking in versus the amount we're paying out in interest. How close are they? Are they half, 90%? Nothing is 10%. Any sense of that? >> The interest on on the debt that we have outstanding that we're paying. Correct. Versus what we're taking in in interest. >> About $17 million of the outstanding principal uh has a interest [clears throat] rate of three to four between three
046and 4%. Um the most recent debt issue of 19.5 million carries an interest rate of between four and 5% on the different terms of length. The earnings that we're getting is about 3.6. So the outstanding the earnings that we're having probably cover it's a shorter period of time. It's not a full year. So it's a very small percentage maybe 15 to 20% tops. >> Got it. Thank you. >> Okay. Any other questions on the operating budget as presented? >> If not, I'll take a motion. >> Move to approve the 2627 budget and staffing plan report. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Oppose. >> Secondly, um it's consideration possible approval of the Piwaki High School technology and engineering curriculum additions again that were discussed at that previous April meeting. Anthony.
047>> Yes. So on the 27th of April, I was here with Ben Lamp and Nelson Brownell and we presented the Pewwaukee High School um modifications to our teched curriculum. So, we kind of previewed each of the areas and really the highlight there was that we were going to be offering uh 10 new classes at the high school in our tech department obviously taking advantage of the new space and some of the new technologies available. Um the curriculum plans were posted on the website um made available to all of you. I did not receive any questions from anyone uh board members or public. So would be looking for a motion to approve that. Move to approve the PHS technology and engineering curriculum addition questions as presented. >> Oh, Mary has a question. >> Um, Anthony, is
048there any better yell any AI? We're still are we still AI free for students? >> Currently, we do not have any students using AI from, you know, school supported. >> We haven't opened any we haven't opened any AI tools at school >> for students. Right. We we've been as I understand it up up till this point we've been AI free for students and we are still this is not going to alter that. >> Nothing nothing in the curriculum. >> Thank you. >> Second. >> All [snorts] in favor? >> I any opposed? >> Next going on to new business. So tonight we have our capital project final presentation. Um the uh we're going to be informed as um to uh the completion of all projects related to that 2024 referendum. Wow. It's kind of crazy that
049we're here. >> That was cold that day with the >> It was the shovel. [laughter] >> The shovel day was cold. [clears throat] >> All right. Um, thank you for the opportunity. Throughout this entire project, we've come about quarterly to give you updates to the board of education of the progress and the status all the way from really early on in the the design phases. Um, throughout all of those times, we've had Mike Dietrich and Tyler joined us in the middle of the project, Tyler Hulker from CG Schmidt. I'd like to give them a minute. >> Uh, good evening. Uh, like John said, my name is Mike Dietrich. I'm a project executive with CG Schmidt and I'm here with Tyler Hulker. He's our project manager for the project. Uh tonight we just wanted to celebrate
050the completion of the steam and the fitness edition and remodel uh project and share some of those uh pictures of the transformation. Uh before we do that, just wanted to thank the school administration uh specifically John uh Gay and John Stangler. They were integrally involved throughout the project and um exceptional guidance, support and communication creating this exceptional facility. I also want to thank the school board for putting their trust in CG Schmidt once again and to all the teachers and staff at the high school uh that were impacted during the construction. And a special thank you to Brian Sniff. I know he stepped away, but uh his patience, flexibility, and coordination was instrumental during key aspects of the project. So, thank you all. So we want to take you um back for a little walk
051through the project and what we started how we started. This was the this was a visual visualization that we gave to the board right from the start. This concept would turn into what you see in the in the completion of the project that Tyler will walk you through. Uh you can see the partnership here between uh CG Schmidt and Epstein Euan. Um, I want to call uh call up MLAN ShraMM and um Katie Lort in particular who led this project for Epstein Euan to provide that vision that to then allow the district to fill some of those pieces and modify that vision at some points in time to get to a project that we knew was going to be reflective of um the pride that the community has in the facilities up here and that
052the board can have the pride in the completion of the project. So goals of the project were simple. We wanted visibility. We wanted flexibility. We wanted this hub. We wanted that innovation center to be the creative energy that could fuel all of the spaces around it. The art spaces, the fashion, the construction, the manufacturing. And if you look at the facility, this early representation of what we were looking for is um pretty clear for what is there. >> All right. go ahead and get into it. So, [clears throat] I'd like to thank Epstein Euan for putting this presentation together. We'll start off with there's some renderings kind of before the uh finished pictures as we go through here. So, um for anybody that remembers it, the innovation hallway kind of was the industrial park of
053the school as I remember it. Um so, we were able to really open it up and you know, from the rendering to finish, we we were almost smack on it. We opened up that stairwell, put a glass uh railing in there and really opened up the sight lines and added a lot more lighting. Um, and this allowed for the um fashion to also have a nice storefront. You know, talking about the visibility of the classrooms. You can really see that as you start to walk down and into the project lead the way the construction and uh manufacturing. There's glass everywhere. You know, I remember as a freshman, you're walking into a brand new school, you have no clue what's going on behind a lot of these doors that have just the small sidelights. So, adding
054in a lot of this glass is going to, you know, spark that curiosity. And it's it's definitely seen throughout this entire project. Um getting into the innovation hub, very unique space where we had all curtain wall or storefront on the west side of that addition which brings in nothing but natural light and to me was always really nice to be working within that area. Kind of a unique portion of this area. Those gears were donated by one of the business partners of the school district. Um, so we kind of tagged along with that as well and Next Electric donated all the electrical hookups, the lighting, and then we donated the blocking and the install of those. So, um, a really cool unique feature when you're driving down that side road, especially at night. It just
055pops, especially those nice red lights into the 3D yard area. Again, natural light being the common theme. Great sight lines. um the sealed concrete with stained kind of walkways just really went with the whole space. And then adding all of the stations for the 3D arts allows all those students to really be involved or I should say more students to be involved um and learn within the same the same classroom. Getting back into the innovation hub, um [clears throat] one thing that I've I I just haven't seen yet is the the free flow through all of these classrooms. So all of these classrooms have overhead doors that allow for a lot of collaboration between project lead the way to construction to manufacturing. In essence, all of these classrooms do tie together. So being able to
056um take them and put them all in one centralized area is is very unique and one of a kind. I'll say being a construction comp company, this is probably the part that we were the most excited to be um collaborative with. Um this area of construction is going to breed the next generation of who's going to come into our generation or excuse me, our field. Um so being able to have a hand in that is is great. you know, there's very large um ceilings, so they can build large projects and they can also take them out the very large overhead door as well. So, having that possibility once again is is one of a kind. Then getting into the fitness, um I think the running joke while we were building the fitness area is if
057we had something this nice in high school, maybe a couple more of us would have would have worked out as well. >> [laughter] >> But um having everything branded has just it's made this whole area pop. The huge windows on the side um bringing in natural lights, having the Pirates logo, having all of the weights branded is is really unique and uh just a really great space for anybody that's looking to uh to stay fit. And then kind of our last area here is the studio portion of the fitness. Um, this was built with large ceilings to allow for uh for cheerleading to be able to throw in the air as well as give robotics kind of the space that they need to be able to have a full practice and not have to look
058elsewhere to um to go. So, that's the that's kind of the the final thing that we have to say. Um, just to kind of echo what Mike said, I started with CG Schmidt six and a half years ago. It was 2020. So that was we were midway through the 2018 referendum that was here. So being able to have a hand with this referendum as well. Pwaki is always going to have a special place in my heart. It was my first job out of college. So uh just want to say really appreciate everybody. John and John has been absolutely integral to this project that we we couldn't have done it without any of them. So um thank you all very much. So when we started this project, we had a we had a simple goal. Um
059the goal in the project was to get something that we'd be proud of at the end, do it on time and under budget. So at this point right now, this this scope of work that we're talking about with CG Schmidt represents about 75% of the total amount of work that'll be done for the April referendum. As you recall, we had several other projects, roofing, flooring, solar, uh that are either completed or in the process of being completed right now. And we are in um anticipating through savings from this scope of work and from each of the other scopes of work. We have brought several projects to the board of education of items that had been identified on the long-range capital projects plan to be completed. All these projects we are anticipating completion by September early
060or this fall uh in the district being able to close the complete project out with proceeds remaining to be able to apply to the debt service fund. So that re reduces future tax levies for our debt service fund. So any questions about this project? >> No questions. But I I I again just want to say thank you. This space is so quality built. It is so beautiful. I feel like we are the pride of Lake Country right here, this building. Um thank you for your personal commitment to this whole project from start to finish. It showed. Um, and on top of administration and the board, I would be remiss if I didn't say thank you to our community, right, for you being willing to approve that referendum so we could build this beautiful space. I
061I I just the sky's is the limit for the future for our students. They get to take advantage of this space. I look at robotics already. So, um, I can't say thank you enough, but I'm so proud of this space and thank you for your commitment to it. >> Yeah, I just have two [clears throat] quick comments. One, I want to acknowledge the complexity of parts of this. Um, you can see some of the facial expressions. [laughter] uh you [snorts] know um going from that southwest uh side of the building from ceiling heights to just existing structure to the amount of limited space that we had to be able to translate that into the end product far exceeded uh what I was originally thinking we were going to be able to accomplish. I know there
062was some real head scratchers that had to get figured out uh through this process. People see the end product and it's like this thing's great. you know, you you go out and you pass referendum and you just build great places. But it's not easy. It's hard. And then you're trying to run a school at the same time. We have um you know, we taught medals for what threearters of a year without a metal shop, right? So, we had to figure so the teachers figuring those things out, but keeping kids safe, right, in the process, keeping staff safe in the process as you're trying to build all these spaces. um you know I don't I don't think people realize how much goes into those aspects. So it's the end product is what we all see that
063was a huge success but the process was a success because of how well uh it was managed and I want to acknowledge that and I'll share one other story. Uh as many of you probably know I work with an executive coach. He's been around for a long time. I was very proud to give him a tour. He's a former superintendent and uh when I met with him the month after I took him through he just said I just keep thinking about those spaces and he said the design of it the thoughtful flow of it he's also an author writes on education and learning quite a bit um he just says I don't I don't think there's anything to compare to it that that he's seen in terms of how he views it impacting learning for
064students. So I thought that was a great compliment. So thank you. >> Yes. Thank you. Okay. Next, education for employment. Uh consideration and possible approval. Um I'm going to have Adriana come forward. Hello everybody. Um the report was submitted to you for um preview. This report is something that we complete annually um and it is reviewed by a um advisory board prior to coming to you for potential approval. This is something that is dictated by state statute. So today I come um before you to answer any questions that you have and then to ask um for you to consider approving it for the 26 27 school year. Any questions? >> It was a great report. >> Thank you. >> Were there any questions via email? >> There were not. >> Thank you. >> I'm just
065gonna ask Larry because you always have questions, but >> right now >> I don't want to cut you off. Okay. Well, if there are no questions, I'm going to ask for a motion. >> Move to approve the 2026 27 education for employment E4E plan as presented. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Oppose. Next, we need to consider >> Thank you so much. We need to consider the acceptance of incoming open enrollment students for the 2627 school year. Um, you have the report there in front of you that shows the amount of students um that we're proposing. Mike. >> Yeah. And I asked John to jump in uh with any additional, but um as you know, [snorts] the board approves open enrollment seats in January each year and then we
066have a process um that's outlined in our policy for [snorts] uh assigning those after we accept applications. There's a window of that. I want to acknowledge Tammy's uh work with that. She really manages the application process. Um and then uh John Tammy and I [snorts] last week uh facilitate the the selection process. You can see we had grade levels where we had more applicants which is typical then we had seats available. So in those cases you see weight lists I believe there was one grade I'm remembering I think fourth grade where we still had one seat open because we did not have uh more applicants than seats. Uh John anything to add to that? Yeah, there's two two classifications of students that have preference uh when it comes to the board policy. Number one are
067those students who are tuition waiverss. There are students who were residents in the district at the time when the determination of seats available was made. They are allowed to continue in the district through open enrollment. So they don't have to have a seat available for them in order to continue through open enrollment. And the second is a preference for siblings of students. And the siblings have to be entering into a grade where there is seat available um for them to take a seat. They get the first shot at any available seat that is at a grade level. 35 overall 157 applications is um on the low end of what we've received the last five to six years. We're generally in the 170 to 200 range. uh but still more than enough applications to fill the
068seats that we had the 35 seats that we had made available in the district. >> Any questions from anyone? >> Okay. Otherwise, I will make a motion to accept 55 open enrollment students, 34 seats plus 21 tuition waiver students. Can I get a second? >> Second. [clears throat] >> All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? >> Abstain. >> Uh, next I need another motion. Um, I I do you guys want me to read all this? I can read it. >> Sure. I'll go ahead. I make a motion to create a wait list for 13 students at 4K. Weight list of 22 students at 5K and deny one student due to the program they applied for being closed. special education weight list of nine students at grade two and deny one student due to the program
069they applied for being closed special ed. There is one open enrollment seat available at grade four and we denied two students due to the program they applied for being closed special education. We wait list of four students at grade five and deny one student due to the program they applied for being closed special education and weight list of five students at grade nine. Can I get a second? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? >> Abstain. >> All right. Next, we have discussion and potential action regarding the policy and process to implement for sale of district real property. John. Uh so in the long range capital project plan for several years now we've talked about the lake country trail a connecting trail that will take the lake country trail on highway G
070down by Gulf Road and connect it to the village of Piwaukee. Our pirate pass is the terminating point between the village and the city of Pewwaukee. So to make that connection, they have the trail would have to cross our property and we've been presented with a proposal uh and an appraisal that would um establish a value for that property. This discussion in open session is is because the board now has the authority without having to go to an annual meeting or a special meeting to sell that property, real property within the district. So we'll go into close se session after this this period after this meeting to discuss the parameters of the sale the negotiation of the sale and then potentially come back into open session to revisit the item. The purpose of the agenda
071item here now is to inform you of the process. It is managed under policy 3100.06 uh board policy 3100.06 6 and um really states the board has the the board of education retains sole and exclusive authority to approve the sale or other disp disposition of any land buildings or other improvements that are owned by the district and no longer needed by the district. It goes on after that but that grants the authority for the board to to move forward. >> Any questions about process? >> Is it mostly just about the process here? the process or I mean for the public purposes I mean it's a stretch of land right in the >> road prospect. >> Yeah the piece of land is a pro there's an easement that is along the roadway there that is the
072roadway rightway and there's also a partial easement on there. This would give a 20 20 foot roughly easement along Prospect Avenue from the district property line on the south to the uh north till Pirate Pass. the entity that there's an a single entity seeking to purchase. >> Correct. >> And it is the same. Go ahead. >> The city of Pewwaukee um is the joint park and rec uh not joint park and recck. The city of Pewwaukee is sponsoring the the development of this trail and the construction of the trail through grant funding that they've been authorized to receive. And part of the process of the construction is the acquisition of the property where it would cross private property all the way from there up till where we are. >> So the school district would be
073selling property to the city of Pewwaukee. >> Correct. >> Yes. [clears throat] >> Thank you. >> Then the trail will come up by Red Pass. Is that >> we we've had it on our long range capital projects plan as a safe routes to school connection. What that's going to look like, we would have to determine in the future and when the funding becomes available to do something with that. This provides access to Pirate Pass as a pathway then to use or to continue on Prospect into downtown >> and we will be going into close session later. >> Correct. >> To discuss numbers and particulars. >> Are there any further questions at this point? What are the Go ahead, >> Mary. Do you have a question? >> What are the particulars that are not privy to
074the public? >> The negotiation and the and the sale price that would be determined. >> I >> that is we come out of of close session and that's when that that portion of it would become public. >> The city of Pewwaukee is a public entity, is it not? It's >> a third party that has been >> purchasing power public. third party has been hired. That was in your information for this meeting was the third party has been hired by the city to handle the prop property acquisition process along the length of the proposed trail. >> So why is that private? Why are we going what part of that is >> negotiation? Negotiation >> government to government. So that's my question. Yeah, negotiation of the sale of property has always been a close session. I negotiation
075is under 125e uh has always been a topic of close session where the negotiation determining what that price is going to be is private up until it's determined. >> Right? But we're not talking a private entity purchasing. We're talking taxpayer taxpayer dollars in both cases. So taxpayer receive on us >> still fits with still fits under the same um close session criteria. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Um moving along. Um final 2526 budget amendment possible approval. John. >> All right. Uh another item of business that we we take care of in May each year is a reconciliation of the of the current year budget for 2526. Uh and typically uh and Marriott mentioned earlier the uh common school funds. This is a reconciliation primarily driven by the common school funds. We try to be conservative
076on our estimate early in the year as to what we're going to receive from there. But the requirement is whatever we received we must spend during that fiscal year. So in total we have about a $91,000 adjustment to the general fund total operating budget for this year. About 73,000 of that is driven by the additional revenue we received from common school fund above what we had conservatively estimated going into the budgeting process. Couple other small items that are included in there are some grants that we are awarded after the original budget was adopted which we have to recognize both the revenue and the expense side of those grants. And then uh finally a redistribution of some of the funds within. So when the board adopts a budget the function element the six-digit part of our
077accounting code um they adopt it at the two-digit function level. anytime that funds are moved outside or we change the mix outside of that two-digit function, it takes an an amendment uh of the original budget for the board to to process that. So, in your packet, you have a memo that describes each one of the changes to rec to reflect the increases for the grants and for the common school fund primarily and then some of that redistribution to show what the final uh two-digit function balances look like. Then this will be the current it'll be the amended operating budget for 2526. This will carry through to the end of our fiscal year. >> Ready? I move to approve the budget amendment dated May 18, 2026 for the fiscal year ending on June 30th, 2026. >>
078Second >> question. >> Were there any email questions on this particular item? >> Not on this item. >> Thank you. All right. All in favor? >> I Any opposed? >> Opposed. >> All right. Next, um policy. Um we have some policies that are up for first read and I'll let Ashley work through those. So, we had first read of 7100.10 initiation of litigation. 7,400.01 1 conflict of interest 3000.01 Preparation and Publication of the School District Budget 3000.02 Publication Review of the School Budget. >> Excuse me, Ash. I'm not sure everybody's going to be able to hear that because it's it's it's coming in very soft over here. >> Thank you. >> 3000. Purpose of budget 3,100.01 01 income local property tax levy 6,500.02 homework 5300.12 student code of conduct 4000.08 superintendent evaluation and 400.09 administrator
079evaluation and I did not receive any questions. >> So these will come up at the next meeting then for approval final approval. Okay. Again, in the meantime, if you do come up with additional questions, please get with Ashley so she can clarify anything. >> Thank you. >> Ash, do you remember how many of those have no changes? >> I do not. >> Thank you. Do you know if it's more than one? >> Um, >> Travis says yes. >> I don't I don't remember off hand. I think that there was some changes on several >> most had changes itself. >> Thank you. Few like administrator evaluation did not have changes. Most did. >> Okay. Next up we have personnel issues and we are going to start with resignations. We have two resignations. >> Yep. We have
080two teacher resignations. Alicia Swinson, grade five teacher. Uh and Sarah Kennedy, special education teacher at Horizon. I'd seek your approval of those resations. Move to accept the resignation of Alicia Swanson, fifth grade teacher, and Sarah Kennedy, special education teacher. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Abstain. >> Next, we have employments. >> We do. And I'm going to start right uh with our new uh recommendation for our new Asa Clark principal who is here this evening. Everyone, >> Jane Matter is here who came through the grueling process that we ran ran her through and many of you were involved. So, thank you to all the board members who uh were made time to be a part of that process. Um uh but Jane, as you know, is currently the associate
081principal at Pocky High School. Uh in your packet, you have information about the different uh aspects [snorts] of that process. So, we're excited to have Jane. I was went over to have a meeting with Katie Spedoni uh today and Jane was sleeves are rolled up working well she doesn't have any sleeves today but you know in figuratively uh right uh they were hard at work already uh on the transition that certainly is a help uh in the transition as Katie is going to move to the district office as you know um and I want to recognize Paul Bersai he's been fantastic too in immediately working with Jane to ensure that we have a really smooth transition Brian sniff's already working through applications to find Jane's replacement at the high school. But be happy to take
082any questions if you have them. Otherwise, I would seek your approval for Jane Matter as our next principal at ASA Clark. >> Do it at all as a package or do you want separately? >> Well, let's act on Jane separately and then we can do the others together. >> I move to approve the hire of Jane Matter as principal at Asa Clark Middle School. Congratulations to you, Jane. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Abstain. >> Congratulations, Jane. >> Congratulations. >> Yay. >> All right. Now, get to work. No, I'm just kidding. [laughter] >> All right. Uh, in addition to Jane's hired tonight, we have uh some teachers. We have Mackenzie Harsh, who would be a limited term special education teacher. You may recall Katie Kpinsky has a one-year leave
083of absence that you recently approved. uh Contessa Finari, grade five teacher. Um and Kelsey uh who is releasing Alicia Swson whose resignation you just approved and Kelsey Cobbler, speech pathologist for releasing Haley Zwiffka. I would seek your approval of those teacher hires. >> Okay. So, I move to approve the hire of McKenzie Harsh as a limited term special education teacher in grade two at PLE to approve the hire of Contessa Funaro as a grade five teacher at Horizon to approve the hire of Kelsey Coobbler as a speech pathologist at Horizon. And I think that's it. >> That's it. Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Abstain. >> All right. Thank you very much. Um let's see. Next we'll review upcoming activities. Um let's see. Uh the next thing coming up is
084um Saturday, May 30th is our high school graduation in the the high school gym at 1:00. Um Matt and Larry are helping me with that. And Ashley. Yes. So thank you guys very very much. Um, that's a big job. All those diplomas and I appreciate your help with that. >> Thanks for the signing. They've been handed off to Brian. So, we >> very good, >> Matt Brian, for getting your signing all done. Thank you. >> Um, then Wednesday, June 3rd is the 8th Slark Middle School promotion at 6 PM on the high school football field. And that is Ashley, Larry, and myself that are attending. >> That's right. >> I won't be there for that one. >> I'm getting that mixed up. Sorry, Ashley. Um, so it'll be my Larry and myself. All right. Thank
085you. Um, Friday, June 5th is the end of year celebration and lunchon. It starts with uh lunch at 11:15 in the high school cafeteria and a program to follow at 12:45. I'm gonna give a shameless plug because this is an awesome program to attend and along with some really great people that we we just have some great people that are retiring. Let me just name them. Rachel Jük, eight years. Robin Wilson, 12 years. Linda Reynowski, 18 years. Our own John Gayen, 20 years. Jeanie Bourke, 25 years. Mike Murphy, 26 years, and Mike Basile, 31 years. Th this is a lot of years of experience that have been here. And if you could all make it, please do. I really do love this program. It's Mike does an awesome job. And um yeah, if you can't
086come for lunch, no biggie. Just come to the auditorium and celebrate these great people that have given so much um to our district. Um, Monday, June 8th, we have business affairs and a regular board meeting. Um, Monday, June 22nd is policy and a regular board meeting. And then Monday, July 13th is our one board meeting for July, business affairs and a regular board meeting. So that is it for upcoming activities. Board of Education evaluation survey. So this survey that we take once a year um is part of our board's self-reflection, right? We we go through a list of questions and we um we rate how we think we as a board are doing in these various areas. Um so tonight we have Candace Bentley with us who is going to go through the data and
087um give us um some general impressions of what that data tells us. >> Yeah. Let me just quick set the table for Candace and then she'll take over. I want to uh recognize her and thank her for her work as um our director of data and assessment. She does a great job with that. Uh the slide presentation is limited. that's been at direction of the board uh the feedback we've received is give it to us in the materials right uh with in terms of the detailed data and then um keep the presentation on the leaner side and then open it up for discussion. So that's what uh we have for you tonight. Candace has uh prepared all the materials in your packet. She'll go through the the presentation. Um, this is your self-evaluation and so
088we're just here to uh support in any way that we can. Candace, kick it over to you. >> I'm here to talk about the board and it crosses several different performance vision and planning this year. success and then operations and culture as two areas for opportunities of information about those. So scarves variation in responses and these are significant differences between board members and how they're responding to the questions and areas across the survey. Um there's really similar perceptions across all areas are then longitudinal to6 we're really seeing similar perceptions across those questions as well. changes from one year to the next. However, when we look at longitudinal changes from 2022, there are some significant changes occurring in that time frame. And this really focuses in on 2025 being particularly low relative to other years. So
089it's not really coming in at this year. 2025 standing out as a year 2026 coming up a little bit. The overall categories that this is operation budgeting data decision decision making and district operations. And then of the questions in which this occurs in the largest number are in board operations. And so that is kind of the brief summary of the survey and any questions that you may have. Um, Candace, you said that um when I was looking through um the other report that you sent us with all the bar graphs, um one of the areas that um kind of saw has seen a large decline is culture. Can you just sort of speak to the questions that exist within that section there that speaks to culture? >> Yeah. Um, culture would be one of the
090slightly lower. That's why I just want to check and make sure I've got the right questions in mind. Um, One thing culture coming across might be related to some questions to potentially board operations. Um some of the lower questions we're seeing in culture are board models behavior which has gone down um for five consecutive years down to 2.6 which is one of the lowest scores overall for any of the questions that usually most of our questions are two 3.3ish to the 4. I think um and so that's what we really as far as question that would be really dragging down most of the questions did come up for 2026 um so like valing different opinions popped up 2025 But a lot of the questions within the culture itself um questions from other board members on
091the results that that you saw from the survey? The only thing I mean obviously it's something that's been around for quite a while and I think it's really important one obviously that we have participation in terms of this activity but also if we think about what our public responsibilities are in terms of how we are elected officials that just like everything else that we do in the school district we have processes in terms of the plan do check act kinds of things that are out there. So to me this is kind of like the equivalent of the plan do check act. I mean, it's a way of looking at how we function as a board, what we do in terms of how we support the students and how we support the uh staff that are
092here in the district, but also more importantly, how are we serving the taxpayers, the people who pay for this school district to function and operate? Most of our revenues come from local property taxes, which John is there, and I think that's one of the things we've always sometimes lose sight of that we are being paid and funded by local property taxes out there. And so this evaluation tool should be taken seriously. And I guess this is my little on the stump in terms of saying it's like it's important thing. It's an important thing for us to do because it helps us uh assess our own work but also hopefully helps reassure the community and again the taxpayers that we are taking our jobs seriously as board members. So that's the way I look at it.
093But >> I we saw a little lower participation rate this year. But I I just want to encourage us that when it that when the survey comes up again this year, please please um make sure you take the survey. Um it really doesn't take that long. And Tammy's pretty good about reminding us. Um so I know it's easy to forget it. I I kind of think myself I took it kind of towards the end of the time frame, but um it is so important. We want to hear your opinions on how you feel the board is doing. And I I um also commented to Larry and Mike today that this tool I think is really important as we come into our goals committee. >> Yes. because this feedback helps us to know, okay, where are
094we doing well, but where do we need to improve as a board? And I think that that really is so important when we sit down to develop our goals for the next year that we're concentrating on those areas where maybe we realize we need to make some improvement. Um, so know that these results don't get put on a shelf. I'll bring them back up when we get to goals committee and we'll talk about them further. >> Get that on the schedule sometime soon. >> Yes, we will. So, um are there any other questions be before we close this out for tonight? >> I just point out that as you look at I just draw your attention in case you didn't uh catch it all with those results. I'm thinking of your question, Bren, on culture.
095Uh it's those last three pages show you specifically what those items and those questions are. That does that can really help when you look at the results to look at the question and kind of so you have a topic like planning or culture or district operations and then you can go on the specific question and >> and see what that one was. So that might help you get a better sense where people are at. >> Right. >> Yeah. There's also on pages six is that six and seven uh oh five and six actually there's some comments that again Candace has put together that somewhat summarize it too. It's their kind of her executive summary and it breaks it down by the different categories. So you're right Mike the board culture is one of those and
096data data driven decision-making. So I mean take a look at pages five and six of the report. >> Yes. Thank you. All right. Thank you so much, Candace, for your work on this as always. Appreciate it and hope you're doing well. >> You're very, very welcome. >> Thank you. Have a good night. >> Have a good night, Candace. >> Next up is board of education committee uh selections per board policy 71002. Um I appoint members. I have to say that no one um came back with any comments. I feel like our current committees are working well. So unless anyone speaks up and says, "No, I don't want to be on the current committee I'm on." I would just leave them as they stand. Unless anyone has any objections. Okay, we'll leave committees as stand. >>
097Um legislative update. I do have a question. So that whole budgetary thing that got voted down, >> is that just dead or can can I or either side of the aisle resurrect that and try to go at this from a different angle and at least get part of this approved or is it just dead in the water? >> Um that so there is some chatter about there's still an opportunity for them to do something with this surplus. >> Um I don't have a whole lot of confidence or faith that that's going to happen. I think um I mean it was a very close situation and basically I think it failed by three votes >> in the Senate. It passed handily in the assembly. The governor of course had negotiated the deal. He was going to
098sign it. So, um, unless they were to decide to reconvene and and reconsider that or there's some I know there were efforts to come to some kind of compromise around a few of the details related to that. So, it u in terms of our operations over the two years of the bianium, it's a seven or eight 700 $800,000 swing. I think is a fair uh statement to the negative by that not going through. Um and so your budget reflects that and there's some efforts that we're making to to deal with some of the shortages as a result. So the big thing for us, the two things for the community that would have been a of benefit in that particular bill would have been property tax relief um for the for the community and uh revenues
099for us would have been at that increased special ed funding which would have been a pretty significant help for us. But like we said, it failed by those three votes in the Senate. Could they? Yes. Do we expect them to? I don't I don't expect that they're going to. Any other updates? >> I don't really have anything else. That was the big that was the big piece that was getting pushed. I don't know. Uh John, you don't have anything or Larry from SWSA. I think this was pretty much what we were talking about was this >> was the surplus discussion. So, I think I would anticipate everything pretty much just focusing on move into a focus on uh you're going to have a primary for governor for the Democrats. I believe uh there's only one
100candidate for the Republicans for governor. Um and then everything will be about November. >> Okay. Um strategic planning, great session. Yeah, I'll just do Yeah, I'll do a quick I haven't u pulled all the notes together and generated a summary. I'm going to run that through AI to you know all the comments that we note took on those roundts and provide you a summary and we'll certainly be looking at as an administrative team as you know the presentation we talk about leadership week. We'll take that uh feedback uh but I'll I'll provide that summary to you as a board so you kind of have that synthesized. Thank you for all of you who are able to participate. Um, I like the format. You know, it's always you always wish you'd get a few more people
101uh to come out and always open to suggestions if you have them on how we recruit, but we uh were pretty diligent in trying to recruit parents. I was very pleased with the student participation this year. You talked about that. Uh students were very helpful uh in those conversations. Uh the general discussion followed by the special topics that seems to be a format that's effective. uh less presentation, more conversation and keeping it to like a tight 90 minutes seems to work for people um and gets us I think what what we need in those situations. So those topics of artificial intelligence and the other uh being about our declining enrollment and budgetary challenges um I thought were appropriate topics but certainly open to any feedback that board members have uh to improve that process. I
102thought they were wellrun and well functioning and even though John missed one meeting, Anthony stepped in and did a great job as a >> pseudo finance person and handled it well. So >> my comment was I think it's important that we educate people on the budget side. I don't think they understand the enrollment how complex school funding is, right? Some think there's all [clears throat] this surplus and there's not. I think that should something we should bring back in the coming years. We're going to see the declining enrollment. >> Yeah, I think it's a really important point, Travis. And um you know, we've started to to push it out there a little bit more LA I think last year, summer of 25. We had an article in the perspective where we started to talk about
103it. Uh we shared that it's been about a $2 million reduction, structural reduction in our budget in the last three years um because of shortages uh and um you know that's something that we've just really worked to figure it out. I haven't been super vocal about it, but I do think it's important and we do see this as a trend and it's again globally, nationally, statewide, birth rates are down, uh enrollments are declining in general, not everywhere, uh but we are seeing that slow decline here. Maybe it'll flatten out, maybe it'll change, but to your point, Travis, it is complicated. Um people are often surprised um that we run into those kinds of challenges here because that's not the perception. But it's important our communities aware that we have those challenges. >> All right, Tammy,
104any citizen comments? >> Okay. Well, then at this time, um I will take a motion uh for us to go into close session. Larry, you want to tackle that? >> Um yeah, sure. Motion. Uh okay. I move, let's see where it starts here. Move to go into close session in accordance with Wisconsin statutes 19.185 PN1 PNC C uh to a discussion regarding negotiation parameters for the sale of the specific district-owned real property identified herein. afford the board the ability to be appra apprised of the status of any negotiations and allow the board to establish any potential counter proposals to any interested buyers specifically related to the partial 26 adjacent to Prospect Avenue and um I guess yeah motion to roll call vote to after that so yeah we just need to go into close session
105but we need a roll call vote today >> y need a second >> there's one clarify that's 1985 pern onee as in Edward Oh. Oh, sorry. >> See, it's hard. It's small, but it is not parenthesy. Yep. >> Um, and can I get a second? >> Second. >> Okay, then a roll call vote. Mary >> question. Uh, John, you cited that statute. Is it in the I don't remember it being in the documents. The statute that says doesn't matter if it's a private concern or a public concern. We're still >> No, we check with legal counsel and this matter because it's a sale of property. It's it's under this 1985 PN1 PNE. >> Right. But >> it doesn't matter who you're selling it >> to from my understanding. >> Did you Did you am I
106remembering incorrectly? I thought you cited the statute for that. >> No, the statute that allows you to go to close session >> session. You didn't c site the one that makes no distinction between the private and the Do you know what that is? >> No. Thank you. Carry on. >> Okay. Roll call vote. Mary, >> uh, oppose. >> Travis, >> yes. >> Uh, yes. For myself. Ashley, >> yes. >> Matt, [clears throat] >> yes. >> Larry, >> yes. >> All right, we will go into close session. >> Great job, both of you. And