001uh this meeting to order. This is our board of education meeting for Monday, August 18th. Um I will start with roll call. Mary >> Travis >> here. >> Larry >> here. >> Stacy here. Matt >> here. Ashley here >> and myself. >> Was the meeting properly noticed? >> The meeting was properly noticed. >> Can I get a motion to adopt the agenda as presented? >> So move. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Opposed. >> Stand to the flag of the United States of America and to the stand indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. >> Um we will um I was going to start with citizen comments, but we don't have any citizens. So move forward with salutes and recognitions. I'd like to start us out
002by saluting Rachel Jük for what I thought was just an absolutely amazing um AI summit at WCTC last week. Um we had a record attendance. The speakers were absolutely amazing. Um it was really a you know a pride piece for Piwocki I think. Um there was other people involved. I hate to start making names because I don't want to miss anyone, but I just want to make sure I call out Rachel for the amazing job. >> I think that she needs at a minimum Sandy >> S. And um >> Anthony Pizzy and Adriana. >> Um so yeah, it was an amazing event. It was really great. Yeah. >> Anyone else on the board? Um, I we just had our business affairs uh meeting and uh Megan and John have come up with a a new
003financial report that I really appreciate that gives us a better summary um of where we are at. So, I wanted to salute them for taking the extra time and creativity to come up with something new. Yeah. >> Quick one. One other quick one maybe is just obviously this morning we had our new teacher uh starting this week and I think there were 12 new students there and Mike and the crew did a great job with all 12 new teachers and we had a chance to have a little breakfast with the teachers that were here and that was I think another good experience in terms of introducing them to the PWA school district and uh the support that they have available here as a teacher. So, >> and Chef Gary, is that his name? >> Larry,
004sorry. Chef Larry, we got to meet him. He fed us. It was awesome. Yep. Good activity. Uh Mike or John? >> Anything? John, >> I'll second the the uh salute from me again on coming up with a new format for the reporting. >> I just I'd salute uh Robin Wilson. She's this is our 4-day new teacher um induction and she's the primary lead on that. Anthony certainly plays a role too, but um Robin uh is the lead and I think a really good week planned. Um had a great day. She was very impressed with her time with those new teachers today. So I think we got ourselves a good crowd. So >> yeah. Awesome. All right, moving right along. We have consent agenda which includes uh the minutes from previous meetings. Um also correspondence and
005we have another wonderful gift. We received a donation of $1,000 from the GFWC um club and that goes towards snacks and treats um at our elementary schools and I believe ASA as well. So, a huge shout out and thank you um for that generous gift which will do some great things for our kiddos this next year. Can I get a motion to accept our consent agenda? Move to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Any opposed? >> Oppose. >> New business. Stacy, I'll turn it over to you. >> Sure. Uh, so like I mentioned, we had our business affairs committee meeting. Um, being the first month of the fiscal year, um, it was the world's shortest meeting. I think we clocked out at eight minutes. Um, just the the
006activity is is pretty light. Um there's a lot of um payments being made that were acrewed for at the end of the fiscal year on June 30th. Um but like I mentioned um Megan and John came up with this new summary report that I would highly recommend all of the board members, if you historically didn't take a look at our stuff because it can be a little bit confusing and not really user friendly. This report is very user friendly. So I would highly recommend everybody take a look at it on a monthly basis. Um so we just had a few revenues. Um there was the one grant from the state that comes in in July every year and then um our expenditures were really low like 5% of budget like just you know very light.
007Um but does anybody have any questions or any comments on the activity that we had in July? All right. >> Uh move to approve the business affairs committee report as presented. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I I Any opposed? oppose. >> Next, personnel issues. Um, we do have a resignation. >> Yes. I'd seek a board's approval of resignation of social studies teacher Kelly Weline and thanks to her for her service. >> Move to approve the resignation of Kelly Welson. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Next, employment. >> Yeah, I'd seek approval of the hire of Isaiah Grove, who replaces Kelly Weldine as social studies teacher at PHS. Uh, adding another badger to the fold here with Isaiah. Um, really impressed with him as a young teacher, already has
008his master's degree. So, take any questions you have, but otherwise, seek your approval. Move to approve the hiring of Isaiah Grove. >> And it's great that he's a badger, so that's good. He's also going to >> I know you'd like that, Larry. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Abstain. >> It's proof we can't only hire people from White Waters. >> That's what I was thinking. I feel like you're highlighting that because you're like, look, see, we don't only hire White. We like a lacrosse, too. So yeah. >> Um and we do have a leave of absence. >> Yes. Uh pull it up here. Uh Leah Cooper uh seeking an extended extension of her absence pass the full FMLA leave. Um her letter kind of explains the situation there. Uh
009child care for her daughter and when they're able to arrange that is a factor. Uh we support um Ali is a great teacher. We uh support her and her family in this request. Uh so we take any questions you may have. Otherwise we would seek your approval of that extended leave. >> Move to approve the extended leave request for Leah Cooper as presented. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Abstain. >> And lastly um we have an amended contract um for Miranda. Yeah, I had reached out a little bit. I I forgot to to do this when we did um contracts for admin team members in June. Um so just looking for the approval of some consulting time for Miranda, our marketing communications manager. Um her and I had some
010good conversation at the end of the year during her eval time and in in kind of a re-recruitment effort. uh I thought this might be a benefit that might support our efforts to sustain um and retain such a talented person. So uh it's a it is a benefit that some others have. Uh I think I've mentioned that to you. Um it's really a no cost, no risk benefit. She still has to get her work managed here. Um they don't accumulate, you know. So like some vacation might roll over or those things. This does not accumulate of that nature. You use it or you don't. Uh, so I'd take any questions you have, but if if uh the board is willing to approve, that would be something I would recommend. >> Move to approve the inclusion
011of five consulting days annually for Miranda Cosick, marketing communications manager. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Abstain. >> Thank you. >> All right. Review of upcoming activities. Um uh so yeah, this morning we had um our breakfast for uh the new uh teachers coming in. Um I would point out that um the room was full of young faces and I said that often I think that when we get young people and we think oh well it's okay our older teachers will mentor and teach them. But honestly, the two individuals that were at my table, they're rock stars. And so, I firmly believe there's a lot we're going to learn from these new teachers that we took on this year. So proud of them. Um, next Monday, August 25th, is
012our welcome back breakfast to everybody um before we start the new school year. It's right out here in the high school cafeteria. It starts at 7:30 with um a program to follow. We usually open, you know, keep it open at 7:15 in case we have last minute hires. What are you thinking, Mike? You think? >> Uh, right now we wouldn't, unless something changes, we won't need it. >> Okay. >> But it's good just to keep it >> just be in as long as we have a quorum here by then, just in case something comes. But right now, we're fully hired and >> like I said, unless something changes and we got to add somebody late, we should be good. >> Sounds great. Um, Monday, September 8th. um is our next board meeting and we'll be
013back at um the high school learnings commons uh 6:00 with business affairs 7:00 regular board meeting. Monday, September 15th is our board members goals committee meeting. This is such an important meeting because it's where we all sit down and we craft what are our goals as a board for this next school year. It will be from 5:30 till 8 if we need it. Um, it will be at the district office conference room and dinner will be provided. So, please, please, I hope all of us can attend that. >> If there's anything in particular you guys might want for dinner, just let Tammy know. She can think about that as we're working on that. >> All right. Um, the following Monday, the 22nd is our next board meeting. Um, that's policy committee meeting at 6 PM
014followed by 700 p.m. regular board meeting. and in your documents there. I just want to point out again that that board meeting schedule for the rest of this year that Tammy did such an awesome job. Uh that link is included as well as the calendar for the board meetings for the remainder of the year which tells you each month each board meeting what the agenda is for um topics to be discussed. All right. What about legislative updates? Well, before you go on though, Bren, could I just make a comment if anybody has any ideas or thoughts regarding uh the board goal, superintendent goal sessions? I mean, definitely start to think about them now and then um and I'll work with Bren to kind of make sure we have a little bit of a structured outline
015or discussion for things that are there and things that would carry forward. And again, typically we've always had the strategic plan as them out there. uh John will hopefully continue to give us updates on the building construction stuff and then uh the board superintendent working relationship goal is there. So, but if you have any other new ones, new ideas, new thoughts, uh and anything that came out of Mike's evaluation, uh please let's start to collect them. Send to me, send to Bin. We can work out sort of some of those things in advance. That'd be great. So, >> yeah. Thank you, Larry. >> Okay. legislative advocacy. Not a whole lot happening now that they passed the bienium uh budget. Uh there is rehired annuitant bill um that's out there. Um actually one of the uh
016people that serve on the WCTC board with me is a legislator. So I was in her ear a little bit about that one. Um uh as something we certainly support. Um SWSA is working on kind of talking points. So it, you know, the the approach changes a little bit when you're not right up against a new budget bill because that's always obviously the big one, but um not a whole lot happening at the moment. >> Awesome. Uh Tammy, any comments from citizens? >> Nope. >> All right, then with that, I will take a motion to adjurnn. >> Move to adjurnn. >> Second. >> All in favor? I. >> Any opposed? Thank you.