001all right welcome everyone this is the school district of prescott board of education regular meeting we've been in closed sessions since 6 p.m one announcement out of closed session the board officially approved the offer of a one-year extension for dr spacuz's current contract which if he were to accept it would put him through the 2023-24 school year again that was in closed session so we will move on to item five pledge of allegiance 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 we'll move on here to item six recognition of visitors um would anybody care to be recognized at this time and before maybe we approach a stand here we do have a public hearing for
002our next item about the esser dollars and the allocation of that uh there will be a period of q a for that so if if you have questions about esser it might be worth waiting for that if there's other things that you feel free to use your time as as you want for recognition of visitors i just bring that up as a kind of a point to make so um here we are item item sex recognition of visitors anybody who care be recognized go ahead evening guys thank you for your commitment to the prescott school district board of education my name is ken anderson and i live in clifton township my wife holly and i believe the community involvement in some district decisions is important so much so that she encouraged me to be here
003tonight on our 21st wedding anniversary and we'll celebrate that tomorrow we have five children two who have already graduated from prescott two who are currently in the prescott high school and one who will be in the district after she finishes at st joe's here in town my comments and questions are millerade historically has not been directly correlated with changes to individual tax bills as mill rate relates to the portion of property tax payable to the prescott school district my campaign team has been reviewing the last six fiscal years of the district's financial data from wisconsin dpi and pierce county tax records next we look at the referendum information that is available online we are having a difficult time coming up with a fortune with a future budget that will finance 15 million dollars but not
004increase taxes or the mill rate unless there is extraordinary growth that has never had been seen before in the district's equalized value a continual increase of funding from non-levied sources and substantial budget cuts elsewhere in the operating budget of the district with the prescott school board leadership be willing to meet with me and my team soon to discuss how this no tax increase has been estimated i thank you for this opportunity thanks ken anybody else care to be recognized all right we'll move on thank you item seven is a public hearing so this one is the prescott school board will seek public feedback required as part of the sr-3 funding uh rick and i'll turn it over to you um is andrea in the house did the handouts did you receive handouts when you came
005in you got it perfect okay there are handouts in the back casey did you casey okay so um mr aigle can i ask you just to go in the back there are handouts for the audience so that they can follow along all right well good evening um i have the pleasure to try to walk us through um federal emergency relief dollars that were unveiled and released to the um through dpi we were notified on groundhog's day that additional dollars that were rescue dollars often referred to as esser 3 were going to be provided to the prescott public schools tonight myself and michael kosmowski principal of the intermediate school and director of teaching and learning are going to walk you through two components that we're required to do before we get into the meat of the
006presentation we just wanted to kind of preset at the end that basically you will have an opportunity to help us identify whether or not the allocations of the funds meet the align well with the priorities that we're trying to address if you have additional suggestions or input for the board to consider before approval and so what we're looking at is what other needs or impacts have you seen that weren't addressed or mentioned during the presentation we are going to be talking specifically about addressing mental health academic interventions programming the programming materials and also for the professional development that goes in to investing in our staff to carry out those interventions there is a handout as i mentioned that talks it's a landscaped uh printout that states what is allowable under esser you will hear about
007three specific buckets and anytime you get state or federal dollars understand that there's always strings and accountability that goes within it in addition we'll be asking for input about what type of community assets either whether or not there are additional individuals programs or businesses that we should be trying to leverage or bridge partnerships to make sure that our plan is more effective and how families can be involved and then finally what ideas or priorities do you believe that we might have omitted and for the board to take that into consideration as they uh build their budget there are two parts to this public hearing the first part is that we have to ensure and review the return to learn plan and so i've asked mr kosmowski to address that and that'll be on the left
008hand side and then after he is done i'll begin the input with regards to outlining the esser funds thank you dr sakuza um yeah so one of the components of the of the esser stakeholder engagement is just reviewing our return to learn plans which were sent out to families in the fall as part of a collaborative process over the summer with our plc leadership team the individual buildings because every building in our district is set up a little bit different and the one things that we can do in and can't do also with our nursing services and then what were some of the mandates and recommendations at the time for having a safe entry into school and then the ability to keep our doors open on our website we have also had these posted all
009year long i returned to learn plans and one of the things we talked about is that um as restrictions are lessened um as we go through the pandemic that these plans will change from time to time um most recently um over the winter months here the the 10-day quarantine to the five-day quarantine for family members and even people that had tested positive if they're feeling healthy day six they're able to return as long as they uh they wear a face covering for another five days after that um so those were some of the some of the things that we talked about in our plans the other thing is again depending on the site and developmental age is you know like at the intermediate school we still have the ability to pot our students we have
010the flexibility of additional space so we have lunch happening both in our um what used to be the old band room and then in our lunchroom cafeteria and we're able to spread the tables out more where we don't have that flexibility necessarily up at the high school or at the middle school or even our elementary school where half of our cafeteria is the gymnasium at the same time and so moving our schedules around and making the full gym available to our to our students to our staff to be able to spread out during those times so again i just wanted to remind the public that our return to learn plans are there again the focus this year was keeping all of our doors open all year last year we weren't able to do that at
011our secondary level our k5 was able to to do it but secondary had struggles and it's kind of just the nature of that population and the uh the amount of cross-contamination that happens as you mix classes from hour to hour versus at the elementary level where you're with one teacher and one cohort of kids the entire time so again those reopening plans we've had for the last two years presented the board and approved just before school has started um on ongoing mitigation again with the you know if we know that there's covet in a classroom at the elementary level that room gets a deep cleaning each and every night that that that we've had covered in the room and then again just hitting those high contact areas the door handles the railings having every classroom
012available with sanitizer hand sanitizer but then also sanitizer spritz for the for the for the tables and whatnot as we as we move through things last year one of the one of the things was that we could not share materials between our different cohorts or pods this year that's been lifted and as long as we practice a little bit more hand hygiene and making sure kids are taking advantage of using the hand sanitizer in the classroom so those are some of the things that we're starting to lessen up on our mitigation plans just again as we're able to keep our classrooms open um and then uh potentially move a class for up to five days we've never had to do the full five days but in the intermediate school we've had several classrooms that have
013had a an outbreak within the classroom and then just sending that classroom home for i think the most was three days we had a class go home um over a weekend and give that time for for that um hopefully to settle down and it always has so those are just some of the highlights of our return to learn plans and again then also in those plans is again our priority of keeping our kids here our doors open and again then addressing some of those learning gaps and things that we're seeing in our data as it's been coming in thank you mike appreciate it so the american rescue plan sometimes you'll hear it uh referred to as arp earlier today i met with matt wolf and chief michaels we're looking at some partnerships between the city
014and the police department and our school system there's additional dollars that cities and counties are also getting and so we're looking at different ways that we can kind of pull our resources understand that this is a third installment of the emergency dollars that came from the federal government this these dollars were approved by the federal government almost a year ago so march of 2021. um they are one-time dollars that were specified and earmarked to basically help all the things that michael mentioned is how we had to either prepare to teach and work and deconstruct and then reconstruct how we do our organization under a pandemic as we did that we were notified and knew that we were going to be receiving three hundred and sixteen thousand dollars that was the first bucket for sr3 good
015news bad news is that uh we were pleasantly surprised that on february 2nd groundhog's day and if you've been in our school system it feels like groundhog's day as our board meetings and continued conversations sometimes feel like we've relived this relive this relive this i do believe that we are emerging out you can see many of our activities have been able to continue through winter sports we're starting to move into spring sports so at this meeting it is our opportunity to give an update about why we're reaching out part of the process is that a public hearing did need to occur understand the tight timelines in order for us to begin to identify how we would create a budget for the additional dollars and understand all the um restrictions that go with it took a
016lot of time and effort and i want to thank both the admin team our teaching staff our teacher leaders the plc teams and some of the parent groups that we were able to uh participate in some of the preliminary with the malone parent group most recently with mr kosmowski so the information from dpi has been posted on the dpi website since january 6 and that posting is available there were business uh rules that apply and basically 20 percent of those dollars are restricted and must go specifically to what they refer to as evidence-based intervention strategies to make it simpler throughout the evening i'm going to refer to evidence-based intervention strategies as ebis and basically they are things that were communicated out to families they have to be research-based they have to have peer-reviewed they have
017to be vetted by both the other dpi and the federal government and they typically are posted on different websites and so the what works clearinghouse we provided in the edreports.org important that you say.org and you can see some of the things that are reviewed what we did as of last friday i was up at the cecil 11 where many of the superintendents from the 42 districts were getting updates we did learn that our budgets cannot be delayed they still must be submitted no later than march 11 in order to receive the funds second we do not get these dollars ahead of time the district must first spend the money and then make claims to be reimbursed and so that's an important aspect as we try to look at how we manage this and whether or
018not we're going to spend certain dollars and then be able to receive it back so you can access that information on the dpi website it does fall into two additional buckets they have different rules and i'll make sure that we kind of go through how they play out it's also important that these dollars you got to remember we closed on st patrick's day march 17th 2020 and have been dealing with this pandemic since and the monies do carry through september of 2024 so some of these dollars we'll talk about what we're trying to do in the immediate some of the things that we've already covered and whether or not we would even try to move some of these dollars forward as we build our budgets now it's important to understand that the dollars and the
019emergency the the purpose was really for schools to be able to reopen in a safe manner so michael talked about the return to learn and it in fall of 2020 we didn't know a lot and we knew that the significant variant that was out there was pretty deadly we did not have vaccines and so we had to look at many of the information that was coming from cdc pierce county with regards to whether or not we could have transportation if we had transportation about the spacing the type of mass and how we would be disinfecting how our air handlers my coico worked a lot on the air exchange increasing the air so there were a lot of unknowns and we've evolved quite significantly from that period of time but it really was your mark to
020help open safely additional costs that would have occurred because of that and then to sustain our safe operation in addition the joint finance committee that released these dollars on groundhog's day had and is part of the budget building and you know i've spoken to this and we've tried to advocate that the dollars that are currently down in madison belong in prescott we pay our taxes every member every staff member pays taxes our homeowners are paying taxes currently there is three billion dollars of surplus that is sitting in madison of our taxpayers money the state government in wisconsin did not provide any additional funding for the fiscal year 20 20 21 22 and 22 23 that means we were flat funded during a pandemic in an emergency and the life raft we got only was released
021in february of this year and we can't even access it until um the budget is submitted and approved and the federal government still has to sign off on it so it's a promise so what we were told is that they should fill in the operational dollars that were not provided by the state and so a lot of the things that we are going to be talking about tonight is to offset some of the additional costs that prescott public schools has invested in people additional staff individuals to cover interventions across our four elementary sites additional supplies to clean our buildings and also the instructional programs that we put in place not only this year but also what we're planning for to mitigate and also enhance the learning of our students this information comes from baird baird
022is a financial institution they are in partnership with us typically around sale of our bonds and manage the bonds that we have that are voter approved and also had been used for act 32. as you know from 2007 forward this graph behind me is showing the amount of money that is provided to public schools in funding there are two categories there is the revenue cap limit so those are the dollars that are in the formula they are part of that description that froze how districts were spending money in 1993 and the expenditures that has not been changed since 1993 not many formulas can hold up over those 30 plus years it has not been tied to inflation over those 30 years and you know what's coming if you've been watching the news if you've been
023watching the markets cpi and inflation are increasing as you go across the years in 2011 2012 our district our community our staff were and uh were addressed and uh responded to act 11 is it act 11 10 10 there we go act 10. so act 10 there was a dramatic cut in 2011 2012 where all districts on average were cut by 5.5 since then there have been some accounting tricks uh with regards to giving categorical aid those are dollars that are put on to the school revenues but they are also easily removed when it's put on the revenue cap it is hardwired more so into the formula so you can see as of 2011 2012 there's been some rebuilding in 2015 2016 the first year i was here it also went to zero funding there
024has been an increase steadily and then 20 21 to 22 and 22 23 we were flat funded so good news is how do we refill our fund 10 bucket that needs and is used for people programs and performance our staff all of our staff are funded out of fun 10. we even cross subsidized special education programming to the tune of 1.7 million dollars we also pay for the benefits and so a majority of the balanced budget comes off of fund 10 about the people that work here each and every day it's about the programs that we're able to provide you've heard some of the good news with regards to our ap scores our ap enrollment the number of articulated classes that we've offered hiring a second career in tech ed the amount of landscape and
025square footage that is now being used in our career in tech ed so the initial allocation was 316 000 now what we have is an additional 420 that's in bucket two a hundred percent of those dollars may only go into people and programs none of the money can be spent on any individual that doesn't have direct contact with a student and does and it may not be used for any capital expenditures the third bucket is very similar to the first bucket it is the 228 thousand dollars the reason that we're getting those dollars is because we were able to stay open last year five days a week every day for 4k through 5th grade the staff that came forward the investment and what our staff did and the sacrifices and the sacrifices our families had
026to do to make sure that the strategic plan to make sure that the younger students were able to stay in and have us stay open that's the reward we did receive an additional quarter of a million dollars because of that understand that those two buckets only 155 districts in the state were awarded additional dollars the second bucket is awarded because we are not a high poverty district the formula for the first bucket is all around title one based on free and reduced lunch is a proxy for poverty we are not a high poverty district therefore we were under funded compared to a lot of districts to try to equalize that an additional 545 dollars was given to those districts and that is what took the additional time by the joint finance committee initially they weren't
027going to provide those dollars the federal government and wisconsin legislature had to kind of canvas and caucus and that was just recently resolved and that's why it took so long you mentioned 545 is that per pupil did you mean to say 540 578 dollars per pupil yep and that's that's what you're referring to yes 578 per pupil yep and that gave us the 420 okay thank you now technically it is not formally approved but it is um we do not get any grace that are we will act as if it's approved and the dollars will be provided to us and our budget is uh needs to be submitted by march 11. so so there is a section for questions after the presentation just for for awareness so you might ask what else can these funds
028be used for we talked about people and personnel it can be used for things that would mitigate or would have prepared for trying to reduce the contagion at the time based on what people knew so hand sanitizer you see if you walk through any of our buildings we have stations in every entrances and bathrooms outside the gymnasium uh the ppe the face mask the gloves the plexiglass that was put up we did most of that in offices and things like that some districts went as far as to putting cubicles around every single student infrastructure to promote the physical distancing improving air quality all of those things are acceptable for certain buckets again that would be bucket number one and bucket number three it is going to be the recommendation of the administrative team and the
029teachers that all of these dollars go back towards fund 10 people programs and interventions rather than to anything regarding capital for the main reason is that there's not a significant amount of dollars that we could truly spend the only air handler that is up for repair right now is at malone elementary it's part of our referendum scheduled for april 5th and that uh work is uh been estimated to be over 1.2 million dollars so anything with regards to what would be residual wouldn't really make a dent there in addition we had to address long-term school closures so part of the return to learn as you saw we knew that we had to be prepared in case we we knew it wasn't if we were going to close it was when at that time if you
030go back to fall of 2020. talked about the success story with regards to k5 we had a much more challenging time with regards to our secondary students but there were some intentional strategic steps that were made our principal at the high school our technology our teachers and our tech director proposed for our board that we would invest in a one-to-one technology so that if we did have to learn from afar 100 of the students would have equal opportunity to be able to continue to access and continue to learn when we came back on a hybrid it allowed students and teachers to still interact face to face keep the social distancing but making sure that students at home were also being able to access was it the perfect solution absolutely not did it at least keep
031a continuity of learning we believe it did and some of the results i think would merit that out the other challenge that we had is that we did provide additional food and not just to our students but we also provided food to our families in need over the weekends we did do multiple packing our food service under tina's denrus did amazing jobs of rallying the troops we did provide free meals to anybody 18 and under but it did hit us it did end up with a losing nearly 50 000 mainly because of the different ways that the food was charged and costs supply chain the way that we had to repackage and purchase additional materials for that so what are some of the things that you can this again is a presentation that was given
032to every school district from the department of public instruction the first bucket can be earmarked remember 20 percent must go to ebis one more time evidence-based instruction things like summer learning programs summer enrichment having extended days having some type of after school program sometimes the after school programs that free up teachers time so they can collaborate are part of best practice extending the school year we are a group that does provide education for all students whether or not there might be struggling with physical impairments medically fragile cognitive delays based on their individual educational program extended school year is provided as i mentioned in my introduction special education is funded 1.7 million dollars out of fund 10. so right now the state and federal government under provide the funding that they had promised in 1975 when
033that program first started now we have to make sure that we are addressing not just the academic but also the whole child we pride ourselves on the mental health the physical health and the social emotional health of our students and we always have an eye toward that with regards to underrepresented groups how are we going to organize our work around the additional buckets of 650 000 again the newly awarded can't be primarily used for capital projects the largest amount was that 420. so what we're looking at is to make sure that we have interventions and we've talked throughout this year about the types of interventions the programs the co-locating of family means within our schools we do screening for mental health and we follow up with our students and in fact we also do our
034own local assessments and we take three points of performance of our students in math and reading in fall winter and spring it's normed with regards to national norms and also national growth norms we're able to identify whether or not students are on track and then build interventions to respond and then finally as i mentioned we'll be looking at investing in our personnel investing in materials and purchases services such as some of the cse contracts that are providing some of the literacy training that's in place now but also moving forward i've asked michael to address that how what is our systems that are in place that we have to make sure that any disproportionate any student groups or identified student groups if they're just support disproportionately impacted we have to make sure that we have interventions
035there's a huge list that you're supposed to review but we wanted to identify the areas in prescott yeah so you know part of our process every year in early august after all the state data has come and we have a two-day data dig with our plc leadership group where we look at every district's data we look at the overall um percentage of students proficient but then we also look by um different different groups and how are those groups compared to each other so in prescott um our biggest groups with the disparity between the norm group and and the subgroup are those based on economic status so our free release lunch students um traditionally have and after the year of covid the gap is uh increased between them in the non-free and reduced lunch students and
036the same thing for special education students again a group where compared to their peers are underperforming and not keeping that same level of academic goals or growth so those for us in that two day day to day those are the things that we look at and then we build our building goals which again drive our decision making on professional development and our priorities for the year of where are we going to spend those precious dollars that we do have for curriculum and instruction within the within that school year um one of the things we we did see at the secondary level again the the schools that were with the inability to stay open all last year is that those gaps were much larger than what we saw at the elementary level where we were able
037to stay in school also the amount of growth just overall of our students did drop at the high school level and those are all things that we'll go over more in detail when when the board sits down for the report card analysis and whatnot but again as we go through that in august those are areas that we had already identified with our leadership groups and then our administrative team and our and our leaders go through again the rest of the year and plan our professional development and our you know our csr literacy up at the secondary level based on that data that's coming forward so for us those are our two big groups that we are that we're targeting our disabilities and then our low economic status students then what else can the funds be
038used for you can provide outreach services to special populations some of the things that we looked at with regards to our special education students we also identified that some students and families did not have access to reliable internet we did buy hot spots they were allowed to be checked out we also had trainings that occurred for our students in addition we made accommodations where when students with special needs or had an iep we did have those students even during times that were hybrid were coming on site every single day so we did make adjustments trying to make sure that students who had a federally protected class were being those services were being met and were being met on a five day a week process in addition mental health services we talked uh specifically about some
039of the work that has been done historically the grants that we've pursued and then educational technology and again we had a strategic plan to move to one-to-one chromebooks and one of the things that we are looking at based on both our inventory our computers on wheels cows the age of our middle school chromebooks are at a time where they're on cycle to be replaced and some of the continuity that we're looking at is that chromebooks are at a cheaper or a lower price point than a pc many of our static labs aren't used anymore and we're trying to put technology in the hands of students at the place where they're learning rather than take them to a room to learn and so that is one of the things that we'll be looking at and kind
040of have and working with teaching and learning with regards to continuity or coherence of our instructional programming 612. so what i'm going to do is go through how the administrative team and our staff that were able to participate were able to come up with recommendations one of the most challenging things is not just the front end of trying to allocate the dollars but going back to the joint finance committee of saying make sure given that we are zero funded for this year and next year we have a lot of stress on fund funten their recommendations backfill supplant those dollars to cover the things that you either currently have in place or will continue to have in place to mitigate learning loss and also to accelerate learning and enrichment so as an admin team bucket number
041one remember is 316 000 what we looked at is some of the investments that the board and has put in place we do have a k-5 literacy program that's brand new it is um a big chunk of money initially it has consumables that are charged every single year so these are costs that would uh the 105 would go into making sure that the initial purchase and then the ongoing consumables are covered through the fall of 2024 which is when these dollars must be spent we also do have some intervention programs for special education and at the middle school it's called my virtual reading coach and so those are intervention programs that are additional costs and are things that are orton gillingham aligned and are things that are vetted through what's what works clearinghouse and some
042of the things that our staff have been working on in addition k-12 we have been investing in math materials at the high school we have taken on different programs again to enhance and make a more robust set of learning that's more conceptual but versus just practical and formulaic those dollars between now and for our k-12 students is 152 000 and then we do have a literacy professional development for grades 6 through 12. it has been very successful my principals have asked at the middle school level and high school level to continue that through csa and so that professional development does qualify if you go back to it's about the people and the training that they need to make sure that they're providing those interventions accurately and that's another 10 000 and then finally what we're
043going to speak to is the back end is just as important there's a lot of accounting and i talked about strings attached and so for sue gertis and the financial department one to construct a budget but then also to book it and make sure that we're able to accurately report the fewer things that we're monitoring the fewer errors the fewer mistakes the easier it is to move forward these are all critical core components of making sure that our students are getting a good education that it's coherent across grades and is able to meet students at all levels from the low end to the high end to accelerate and enrich there are additional things that are on there if we as we start to budget and the dollars come in whether or not we could extend
044into additional software that we are currently using in our alternative learning center for homebound students or credit makeup so every year not 100 of our students are passing their courses we do have online classes that students can enroll in and we use those in the summer so that they can still graduate on time so those are some of the things that we would look at as well as maybe enhancing or expanding the mental health screeners and we also have the local fast bridge assessment we are and i'm going to talk about trying how we would pair bucket number one and bucket number three so these are the things materials that are necessary and then how do you tie that to the personnel bucket number two is obviously the largest amount of money again this is
045these are the dollars that we were informed of on groundhog's day it does account for the largest portion and 100 of it has to go into programs or people none of it can be used for capital we are proposing that the additional dollars that we spent for prescott high school on the lease amounts to 120 000 that was 120 000 we weren't initially looking to spend it is something that has been very helpful and we see it as part of how we are going to continue to transform the learning that occurs and maintain continuity of learning for other events where students might not be on site based on that we are at the time where our computers it is the regular cycle so our technology department has a cycle not only with software but also
046hardware our middle school has a lot of equipment that is at the end of its life and we are going to be repurposing that it is our recommendation that we put and we have a bid on a lease for a three year where our middle school students would be receiving chromebooks for sixth seventh and eighth grade what this allows us to do is make sure that everybody in the school every classroom has a device and can use and access the digital content it's timely because it would be a lower expense from investing in some of our computer labs and also free up some of the space in that building that tends to be a little bit short as mr igo reminds me that he's two rooms short every week and so we'll try to figure
047out how that could happen and then we are looking at allocating 200 000 to cover summer programming as i mentioned that is a dpi recommended allocation we do run summer programming it is both for enrichment and also for maintaining learning to mitigate any learning loss if you sum that up it's three big items and it covers the four hundred and twenty thousand dollars again all of that would then help relieve the pressure and refill rehydrate the fun 10 bucket which then goes back into our people our staff our salaries and their benefits the final bucket is the 228 again that was specific to keeping our doors open what we have started to make adjustments and that is is that we have 4.0 fte that have been placed in each of our buildings up alone we
048have added an interventionist to make sure that the students that are struggling in math and literacy are being able to be meet either one-on-one in small groups that is strategic it's based on data and exit criteria we are also recommending that we would have an additional instructional aid to work with the teachers again it creates smaller groups and also the ability to help with behavior management and also social emotional the intermediate school we have a literacy coach and we would like to book that to bucket three and then also add another aid for support the middle school and the intermediate have collaborated i think we gave an update with that with regards to a math interventions that is covered fifty percent at the intermediate fifty at middle school specifically working with students that are struggling
049in math to accelerate their learning that has been well received by our mid-year data retreat and um inter uh meeting with myself michael and mark anyway and we believe that it's a worthwhile obligation to continue at the high school we did add an additional special education teacher as you know uh it is one essential that we do have the right licensed teachers to meet the needs of our uh most fragile students either for learning or behavior we have added that teacher and when you add that up on an average salary for a prescott teacher is about fifty thousand dollars if you add benefits another twenty five so if you have four people times fifty thousand dollars that's two hundred thousand now you add the aids in that's 246 if you add benefits it's up to
050350. so you can see as you cover the amount of money that we have to go cover into people that's why we would pair bucket number one and bucket number three we'd make sure that we cover the salaries for these individuals but make sure that they have the resources they need to be able to meet and work with students just another really quick point of clarity rick the four we've already have four fte that we we have the the math and literacy interventionists the literacy coach and then the mis and middle school math intervention those are all ready they're here on site yep everybody except for the eight the two and so you're proposing two more aids correct okay those would be additions thank you so at this point we've tried to at least outline
051how we got here when we were informed what decisions we have to make no later than march 11 to have that budget in and then those dollars again do not come to us until they're executed and once they're executed we can put in a claim for them so what we are during this public hearing and mike you can talk a little bit about any ground rules but we are looking for if there's any covid impacts that you've seen that we haven't specifically had mentioned that you think the board should consider as they deliberate on the budget if there's other areas beyond mental health academic interventions and programs or staff that you would like to see the board consider community assets that we should at least be looking at or trying to partner with and any
052ideas or priorities that you believe that we omit with that i'll turn it over to mike for the amount of time and how you want to manage the public input so i guess we would be on ifc here then for for the public hearing with the public comments so um and this is public input this is a q a so if if you have questions i would say let's let's approach the stand like like we do with the recognition of visitors um and ask ask questions we're going to initially see if a half an hour is enough and i guess we can just play it by ear to see if if we need more time i threw that in there in case um we need it and the board can make a decision maybe we'll
053just do a motion to extend the time if we need it but we'll start out with with that for 30 minutes so if does anybody have any questions that they would like to approach the stand can we have them approach so we can hear that in the microphone joke if you don't mind or yeah for the people online [Music] can everybody hear me all right i'm joe roll i live in clifton township so i have uh four questions that came into mind into my mind during your discussion here the first question i would have is how many dollars that we've already spent could qualify for arpa refund how many dollars we've spent yeah so i understand that you are waiting for a definition from the state uh arpa funds went out to a number of
054municipalities and there in the case of school districts you didn't receive any yet but you heard there was some coming and my question is you know you you did a lot of things to support the last year are any of any of those expenses chargeable under this can they be pulled into your budget things for the current budget year yeah things that are currently in our budget could be booked to this exactly is there an approximate dollar amount that we know i mean is it a couple hundred thousand of extra expense or i'm just curious if we don't know that's fine yeah i would hate to just off the cuff but i would say in general what we're looking at is if i went to if i could just go to bucket one right many
055of all these things are are reading curriculum is in house we have the materials however between now and the next four years there are consumables um and i think they come to anywhere from like six thousand dollars every year so that's another uh so like the fundations uh reading that one i think was like thirty two thousand dollars initially we already made that main purchase and now it's six to eight thousand dollars per year of consumables for the k-3 program through 2024. and the same thing for we have a reading a to z program and for the next four years will be an additional 33 000. so it's one time money that at least covers some of these big curriculum pieces but also some of the ongoing costs up through fall of 2024 so it
056becomes what i would say is it's a 10 pound weight or a 50 pound weight coming off the back of fund 10 to allow us to kind of invest in people and programs okay thank you my next question is the orton gillingham curriculum and the other curriculum tools that we purchased is this directed to us through this program or is this curriculum that we may have chose otherwise you know it was there care to choose this uh orton gillingham curriculum yeah i'll let sarah and michael speak to that no the the og based curriculum is the foundations and what's four years ago when you need to step on and sarah ducey came one of the things we were looking at was our reading sports k-5 elementary or reading program and over the last 30 years
057in education there's been this push towards balanced literacy inventive spelling things like that and the pendulum swinging saying after 30 years of research that really isn't helping kids to be better readers we need direct phonics instruction we need to teach phonemes and letter names letter sounds and all those sort of things so we started that research three four years ago 2020 2021 we purchased foundations and rolled out k2 this year third grade was added to that process started long before covet and it looked like you're saying there was no carrot for us to purchase one particular curriculum and i would say that our teachers we've led them through a big process about that shift into the daily explicit phonics instruction and in the meantime we were beefing up the other parts of our reading program
058too um you'll hear people refer to it as good habits great readers we took that we beefed it up we added more mentor texts we looked at dok levels and stuff like that teachers said they felt comfortable doing that part they didn't feel comfortable coming up with ways of teaching daily explicit phonics which is how we landed on that foundation's curriculum so we kind of have married the two together to create a more for lack of a better word balanced curriculum where they're getting daily explicit phonics instruction plus reading instruction on how to do concepts and decoding and stuff like that thank you all right the next question is what does the normal summer programming that we would do cost compared to the 200 000 dollars that's proposed in the grant good question i do
059not have that number i can tell you that what we were looking at is because summer programming is in june and august it cuts across two fiscal years which makes it a little bit more challenging so what we were looking at is it's a known program that we know it's a known program that we want to have in place to stop learning loss over the summer it is something that was unable to run in the summer of 2020. we did have a night better rebound in 2021 and so what we're looking at is setting aside fifty thousand dollars to invest in our staff and if everything goes to plan we would like to also increase the wages for our staff who teach in the summer because it has been hard these last years of some
060people are saying it's been a journey and so they want to just tap out so one of the things that we're looking at is the balance between setting 50 000 aside that again saves fund 10 and just takes that burden off so we came up with that to cover the four years and make sure that we continue to retain teachers to cover that because that's it's only as good as the teachers in the room okay thank you so then uh next question is and this is relating to the full-time equivalent so the slide explained real well what you're doing with additional full-time equivalents uh i just had this thought and and this grant won't tie into it well but you know i mentioned to mike before the meeting that as a parent it disappoints me
061that we can't have five full days of instruction a week and i i really don't like the idea that that's gonna happen in the next fiscal school district year as well or it's being proposed and the thought i have is i'll tell you this as a taxpayer i would pay more taxes to hire more teachers so that they have enough time during a five-day week to collaborate and still achieve five days of face-to-face instruction the way we were used to it and you know this creates a lot of inconveniences for families everybody's stepping up to do what they need to to support teachers but understand the pandemic was hard on everybody and when you have to accommodate a varying schedule like that it's harder to plan your full-time work equivalence and other things around an
062early release day so just give that a little consideration and then one last question is fun 10 that's our general fund correct okay so uh the general fund transfer uh the money that would come in there through this grant would free up money that we've already budgeted for other things if it's something we've already spent money on correct it for this year and then potentially for future years correct what what would we do with some of that i mean would it go towards maintenance or have we looked at any of those options or would we prioritize it towards teacher pay probably all the above we would be coming back to the board if this is the way that they go then we would be coming back with now what's the next step because there's so
063many different random paths that'll happen if this is the budget that's accepted then i'll work with our finance department we'll start to identify the cost savings within this year first proposal would be basically it's on this slide we know that many of our hourly staff stepped up they engaged and did extra work and we know that we had a lot of people likes happening this year where principals are in the classroom subbing and so we believe that there should be some type of either hazard pay or additional funding that goes back into their salaries all right excellent thank you thank you for letting me give testimony and uh thanks for what you do thanks joe thanks joe anybody else have any questions again ken anderson clifton township um is it bucket three is that the
064one that was because of that's the on-site programming correct correct was that is that actually considered uh esther two dollars then no it's sr3 it is sr3 okay is that bucket two is that has to be used for um in bucket two that has to be used for people and programs is is that true yes so on that landscape one a hundred percent of it has to be what they call evidence-based instructional strategies okay um isn't that the one that we were looking to uh to pay for the lease of the chromebooks with yes and we can do that even though it's supposed to go to programs or personnel yes okay we did run that by okay so then it will just then that money since we since we're spending it probably out of uh
065fund 10 correct we're just going to be able to refund fund 10 with that with those dollars yes okay thank you i just wanted to piggyback i had a similar question is that because it's an initiative towards learning programs and stuff like that for the continuity of learning yeah so technology did fall into that bucket of evidence-based instructional yes good clarification was one of the things that we did have to get clarification that it fit anybody else all right um so we can do this one of two ways board we can continue to ask questions here for we have questions as well i assume we also have an item on the agenda to discuss this as a board um does anybody have would you like to table your questions until then might as well right
066because and then move on is there anything that you want to make sure we get asked now before you forget i got mine down so if we're okay with it i think we can move on if everybody's alright with that last call anybody anybody have any other questions before we end the public hearing section all right thank you thank you for the questions guys um we'll move on to item eight oh can i just point to clarification just uh we did offer to anybody in the community if they wanted to make comments that they could send in information to the board we did receive four sets of comments the board was provided with each of those one was specific to about reading and encouraging the board to invest in reading programs that were kind of
067phonics-based and making sure that that was part of what was going on there was a comment with regards to teacher pay and trying to increase um what we could do to enhance uh their uh or amplify their salaries there was a comment with regards to the two-hour release and if there was any way that some of these dollars might be put in place to figure out a different way to make the meetings occur similar to what joe roll mentioned and so those were provided i just wanted to make sure that everybody knew that those did come in and the board did receive each of those in a folder mike sorry before we get started with the business meeting section can we take a short break um before we move on to the good news yes
068if that's okay with the rest of the board we can let's we can we can uh recess for for five just five minutes five would be fine or not yep all right let's take a quick recess five minutes we'll be right back thank you thank you i'm pretty sure it's just insane they need to recruit um [Music] supporting myself gosh yeah this oh yeah yes all right i think we're ready to get started here so we'll start in about 15 seconds no all right thanks everyone uh we will move on we're gonna move on to item eight and it's good news around the district yes we're gonna have our administrative team come up but we're going to start with our student rep and shay want to take it away yeah um all right the student
069council right now we just had our snow fest last week we had like knicks olympics which is just a bunch of events for high schoolers that was pretty fun for everyone and we actually had our new school spirit club take over like dress-up days weekday activities which was really cool um student council is also meeting on friday morning to approve our letter to the 26 districts that still have indian mascots and logos in wisconsin um we have a copy sent to you guys we're changing some like verbiage and stuff still still in the works of that getting it edited but we're hoping to get that approved friday morning and send that out soon um and then are any of you guys talking about the choir concert great are you are you going to talk about
070it okay um we had two indian classical musicians come into choir today um nirmala and truthy and they both wonderful musicians very admirable um they worked with us like all day today and we actually are having them come perform at our concert on monday night so if you guys are available i would definitely recommend coming they're amazing and i'm really excited to perform with them so mark your calendars josh figgy high school principal uh shea took all my things um i was going to talk about how the student council and our school spirit club did an amazing job planning out snow fest week last week we had the first ever winter formal saturday night at the university center on uw river falls campus and we had about 100 students who attended that was great the
071world choir concert is on monday night so please come out and it's open to not just parents and students but anybody in the community finally we do have a guest speaker coming in tomorrow um jessica lee peterson to talk about overcoming adversity and and building resiliency um so she'll be working with our students and telling her story and hopefully we have a great turnout for that as well thank you thanks josh kyle ligo middle school principal first and foremost i want to congratulate a few students ayla peterson for a second place in logan reilly for third place in the county conservation awareness speaking contest also congratulations to ella brantner for first place at the school spelling bee and we are awaiting her results at the regional spelling bee that she competed in today um also
072i wanted to thank mike hoyka for restoring the heat on the south end of our second floor um last week we were without heat and a variety of different rooms um he worked on it all week and we've got our heat back so thank you to mike hoyka he doesn't always get a positive shout out here so i wanted to make sure we got his name in um finally is we did do our second quarter acknowledgement celebration for the middle school we had a movie day um i think it was the first time that we did a movie morning we went up to um hudson movie theater and celebrated all of our successes from our second quarter and the end of first semester um our kids were great they were awesome they got to see
073some great movies and it was just a really really great day so thank you for supporting that and here's mr kazulski thank you for the introduction all right at the intermediate school we have results from our spelling bee um our top three uh third place we had fifth grader jonathan hunt from mr abel's class third grader was a third place excuse me second place was a fourth grader gabby niddy from his scores class and our intermediate school top speller was molly peterson fifth grader for miss rables congratulations on our spellers um mrs drago talked a little bit about the 2022 conservation awareness speaking contest there were a number of intermediate school students who participated in that as well third place for the county logan reilly and miss mcdonough's class and first place in the county
074will be representing our county and our regional is owen johnson a fifth grader ms isles class students write their own speeches and then deliver them all about conservation natural resources and how it impacts pierce county um let's see what else we got we got random act of kindness week going out to intermediate and the elementary students are participating in some dress-up days if you saw me in miss dusek yesterday we were superheroes we have kindness bingo going on also tomorrow at the intermediate we have a kindness adventure assembly um just want to thank the mpc for supplying the prizes for our bingo i also want to thank the mpc for awarding our custodial department a 250 grant purchased some hand tools and including some new socket sets and drill bits and that's what's happening at
075the intermediate school i wasn't able to be in your buildings yesterday i was dressed as a s super excuse me spider-man and my outfit had a hood that came over the top with like the eyes that i could see through miss dusic was tamed down a little bit you were captain america tomorrow is crazy hair day or crazy dress-up day if you'd like to come down and participate your hair would be unhinged all right sarah dusek elementary malone elementary malone elementary principle um easy for you to say he stole my random acts of kindness week but i want to thank larissa dreyer for putting that together for our staff and students they've had a lot of fun with the dress-ups this week and doing the the random acts of kindness bingo the fun pictures up
076above on the screen are from our hundredth day of school which was last week students always enjoy doing that they dress up as a hundred year old people and then they use a fun little app to make their faces look like 100 years old so we just are super excited that once again we made it to 100 days while we were in school it's just always fun to celebrate that and just right now we have our 4k and kindergarten registrations happening right now we had our first clash collection night for 4k registration and the kindergarten registrations were sent home with 4k students yesterday and also mailed out to people in the community yesterday too so susie linder and julie backus are busy receiving those and getting those entered into the system thank you captain america
077mark and nue as student services director couple quick things last week we celebrated school counselor week um so just wanted to do a shout out to abby schultz jeremy kirk vanessa mayon and larissa dreyer for all their amazing work um for students and their dedication for i'm just you know promoting the the overall well-being and health of our of our kids um so really big shout out to them last week was also our seventh grade mental health screening um they also did a great job kind of supporting students through that so big shout out to the middle school for being very flexible um getting kids called down to the library um throughout the morning and thank you to family means for supporting us with mental health counselors on those days as well um finally this
078is a little bit of a tease but um later this morning later this evening i hope that you will be approving a district nurse i'm very excited that we have that on the docket um thanks a ton to mel sherrett for all of her work doing essentially double duty for the last about two or three months as well as some of our subs and our front office staff who have had to deal with a lot more of the little things throughout the district so i'm very excited about that but again huge shout out for todd to mel for all of her work over the past two three months thanks mark rick montreal dean of students mentioned this bit of good news at a prior meeting but tonight i want to revisit the prescott high school
079inclusivity club and further define what that is to do this i want to begin by sharing the mission statement and as you can see on the screen it's a student-led group that will promote diversity equity and inclusion to ultimately maintain a safe environment for all students through awareness education and activism the next slide is going to show the main three goals three main goals of the club are to hold monthly meetings promote inclusion and create awareness and lasting change to begin this process student leaders have recently shared both their mission and their goals with our staff at the high school the club is also connected with the community group in an attempt to merge common ideas and potentially get some shared events scheduled in the future and lastly we are hopeful that you will show
080your support and the group would really appreciate it if you would do that and follow them on instagram thank you rick good evening andrew caudill activities director first i just want to start by recognizing four student athletes that were able to sign to play uh their sport in college next year ari temer signed with uw oshkosh to play softball liz rohl signed with uw stout to play golf aiden russell signed with northern state to play football and jack olson signed with uw river falls to play football our forensics team is off to a great start at winning the baldwin-woodville tournament and winning the prescott tournament dance won the middle border conference championship this is the program's 27th conference championship in a row dating back to 1996. dance won the regional championships in both jazz and
081palm and dance won the division three state championship in jazz and took the division five state runner-up in palm the championship is the program's 29th state championship in program history and our boys wrestling team sam murphy won the wia division ii arcadia regional at his weight class and benny olson took runner-up in his weight class and both will advance the wia sectional and aimery on saturday our boys basketball team is now ranked third in the state in division three a big game on friday night at st croy central the boys will clinch a share of the conference title with a win and their playoff bracket will be released on sunday and they have three more regular season games next week and congrats to jordan mamlov for joining the 1000 point club the girls basketball team
082clinched to share the middle border conference championship with their win last night in baldwin they have a huge game tomorrow at home against ellsworth and they can clinch the outright championship with the win and this is the program's third consecutive conference championship and they're six overall the girls are given a 3c in the upcoming regional bracket and will host either synchroy central or somerset on friday february 25th and finally we'll be launching a new website for cardinals athletics will continue to grow its capability with with its intended goal of making this site the one-stop shop for all things prescott cardinals so big thanks to our partners at vnn and the prescott it guys for helping me get this up and running and the website is prescottcardinals.com thank you very much all right well you think
083i would have had that on top i think that's what it's going to look like so how do you outdo any of the things that were just presented that's why it's such a great place to work really appreciate the introduction and the trust in the board to extend the additional year for me and appreciative of all the hard work that goes in from the administrative team and all the staff throughout this district there are many great things still to come and i'll end it there all right thank you rick move on to school business number nine first time's a consent agenda in the consent we have the january 12 2022 board minutes we have board checks and we have non-licensed personal retirement resignation employment and change of non-licensed staff is there anything in the consent
084that the board would like to have removed for discussion if not i will adopt the consent agenda are there any objections all right the consent agenda is adopted thank you move on to item b new hires yes so uh mark anyway talked about that we are extending a contract to jessica stoot as our district lead nurse in district rn she is a familiar face she served the first part of the fall all the way into january of last year and has been subbing throughout some of the months helping out with mel we're very pleased to have had her apply and it was a very competitive group and we're putting her forward for your approval board questions comments i'm just curious about our background before doing work mark you want to speak to that can i
085just sit back i can't hear you at home that way we got a larger audience than just this is nationwide right for all the people at home um she has an extensive background she was an agency nurse when she worked for us in the fall which kind of means she just kind of floated around and worked for a number of different hospitals on contract work she's been working on the past um i think three four months in kind of a neonatal unit um at a hospital and uh and just kind of felt like this was a good change for her as far as kind of a change in kind of life circumstance so we're really really excited to have her thanks mark yep any other questions comments we have a motion in a second all
086in favor aye opposed allen carries next one we have another new hire maria uh damiana i hope i said that right maria i apologize if i butchered it uh she is going to be the district office executive administrative assistant serving as a liaison between the school board and the superintendent questions or comments from the board maybe make sure you get pronounced because i know to ever call me but just to let you know we had over 98 applicants three through weekend we had many days of interviews we had three really top-notch uh finalists it was really hard to make the final decision um but i do believe that maria is going to be a good fit has a nice kind of breath and wisdom about her and i think it'll be really a positive ad
087to our district office thanks rick we can entertain a motion here to serve as a district office executive assistant liaison i'll second clearly need to get some phonics in here uh we have a motion in a second all in favor opposed no one carries next is retirements yes we did receive uh retirement from vicki schmidt just to let you know vicki has been working within the prescott public schools for 25 years it was her silver anniversary she is going to continue through the end of the year she served 32 years in public education and she is looking forward to being a grandma hey sorry questions comments mark just uh congratulations thank you for your service 25 years mike i had a question when is our deadline for submitting retirements to the district for teachers it
088is the first week of february and for others it is april okay so she would be the only retiree in our district basically okay that we know all of this good question all right a second we have a motion a second all in favor aye opposed that carries item four resignations not at this time not at this time okay move on item c the acceptance of gift uh prescott school district from math and apple yeah so i'm going to ask sarah ducek principal malone to invite our two guests down to the podium they are familiar faces so every year in august like clockwork sarah parkos from afton apple contacts me about partnering with us to do a fundraiser with afton apple in the fall typically it is with their corn maze this year it was
089a five dollar coupon that if you spent more than five dollars in their shop or at the apple orchard um the pros part of the proceeds were donated back to us this year um so i would like to welcome sarah parkos and her mom cindy family owners of their family as owners of afton apple for them to present the fundraising totals from their from their partnership with us welcome hi i'm sarah with afton apple orchard i'm here along with my mom cindy thank you again for inviting us to the school board meeting to present our donation as a small business we see the value of helping others and the importance of community support we never take for granted that we are where we are today because of our loyal customers that choose to support local
090and continue to grow with us we know that everyone can make a difference and we take as many opportunities as we can to be to give back to our community we have held public safety weekends donated to local food shelves gotten involved with school fundraisers and granted scholarships we have some amazing kids in our community and we know that investing in our students is fundamental for our future we've had the privilege of working with some remarkable students from the community and we are looking forward to awarding our second annual scholarship this spring for a college-bound student from prescott for the past four years we have donated three dollars from each adult corn maze admission ticket to fund certain areas of need within malone schools flexible seating was the most recent this past fall the malone
091principals asked if we would be willing to help fundraise new playground equipment at the elementary school if you visited our farm in the fall you know how important it is to us to have a great play area for kids we thought being a part of updating playground equipment was a great reason to kick off yet another fundraiser we made it through the craziness of 2020 but 2021 presented some new challenges like so many businesses throughout the country our small family farm was not exempt from facing short staffing issues we got through strawberry season with a great team but we all always need extra help in the fall to pull off all of our fall festivities in order to staff our fall activities including sunflower festivals hay rides concessions retail customer service tour guides greeters harvesting
092crew corn maze crew and so much more we need about 50 to 60 additional seasonal employees we do have the most amazing seasonal crew but we have grown in different areas and needed all of them all the time in order to be able to pull off a great memorable memorable experience for our visitors although almost every staff member offered to pitch in wherever needed we couldn't possibly ask for any more of our current staff to fill even more positions therefore we had to change how we do things in the fall we had a great theme for our 2021 corn maze the maze had been cut yard games were placed signage was set up and we were ready to let our guests get lost in all things amazing but for the first time in our 33-year
093farm history we were unable to meet our minimum staffing needs and decided to put off opening the maze for the 2021 season the usual way we've been running the fundraiser became an issue as we ran into the problem in the fall we still wanted to be a part of updating the playground equipment and had to figure out how we could do just that therefore we gave the schools about 500 gift certificates to be given to each student and staff member in 4k through fifth grade the five dollar gift gift certificate could be used anywhere at our farm anything spent beyond the 5 gift certificate 20 of their total purchase will be a donation going directly to the playground fundraiser the fundraiser went well but not nearly as well as the corn maze fundraisers we've held
094in the past we really wanted to support the community and wanted to do a little more last year we matched our donation to help support students outside of the classroom through the angel fund we were glad to learn that the angel fund is still going strong and didn't need more support in that area this year we are fortunate to have as many loyal customers as we have stop out year after year and never take for granted that they choose to come to our farm they are truly what keeps us motivated to persevere through such tough times knowing that we can make an impact on our community by working hard and providing a place to enjoy is something we treasure therefore we decided to round up our donation for updating the playground equipment with the generous
095support of our loyal customers and wonderful employees we are honored to donate a check in the amount of ten thousand dollars to upgrading equipment in the past five years of hosting fundraisers to supporting students at malone we are grateful to have been able to donate just shy of 32 000 from the bottom of our hearts thank you for choosing to support local [Applause] thank you sarah sir thank you cindy thank you thank you so thank you again thank you very much all right board prepared to make a motion here are having is there any comments or questions all right we have a motion in a second all in favor opposed that one carries thank you yeah thank you okay thank you i am d approval of spring head coaches andrew there he is andrew caudill
096activities director um it's time to get ready for the spring sports so um just putting forward to you uh the five coaches uh head coaches for our spring sports uh jeff ryan for baseball nick johnson for softball carl calabrese for boys track emily calabrese for girls track jay barch for boys golf and chris petrov for trap uh these are all these coaches are returning uh nobody knew that's a good sign uh or any questions or comments on this one yeah can you say jeff ryan's resume i'm still waiting for him to send to me so good good luck getting it too thanks andrew all right the word will take a motion i'll move to accept the slave spring 2022 second all right we have a motion a second all in favor aye opposed that carries
097on to item e approval of sr3 budget so earlier this evening we did have a open forum and a public hearing with regards to presenting to you the additional funding coming from the federal government that was released on february 2nd we went walk through that proposal and at this time we'd like to know if you have any clarifying questions or responses based on the input that you got either in writing or at the public comment tonight we're not going to go through the presentation again don't tempt me all right um let's open it up for questions and comments here steve do you want to start us here um all right vicki do you have any questions or comments on on this well yeah my my question is similar to what one of the questions that
098joe had was on the summer programming i guess i saw that as an awful large number and i guess i was wondering the same thing as to how that money was to be spent what it was going to be spent on and what the costs are of summer school because yeah especially since it's teachers aren't required to do it we're asking them to do it students don't have to do it it's an extra activity for them to do or classes for them to do in the summer so i just was looking for some more clarification on that yeah so in general what we're looking at is the cost to run summer school is more extensive than the 50 000 that we're playing are planning to earmark if you look on that lower sheet we can't
099use the dollars for transportation so there's additional costs with running fuel running our buses paying for transportation we can't pay for the administrators right but it was something that we see as vital we have been trying to beef up our summer programming over the last few years obviously 2020 summer was not our best basically because of the pandemic but we do know that a couple things more students will lose ground in mathematics over the summer than they do in reading and so that's an equal opportunity it's every research study that you look at is math is very similar to language or a foreign language you use it or lose it and so we have been building up our programs we have enrichment programs we are bringing back the theater so you know that this performing
100arts center has been back live from fall winter and spring and we are going to bring in the prairie farm our prairie fire theater so we're looking at multiple opportunities for students to stay engaged during the summer the 50 000 would allow us again just to relieve some of the pressure on fund 10 and we would like to increase the salaries for our core and non-core teachers again to kind of identify the additional work in extending their work season all the way through the summer okay who's that is that 50 000 or out of that bucket can that also offset the cost of things like operating the building uh transportation anything like that okay so strictly for the people related correct strictly for the personnel and any kind of materials that we purchase for those
101thank you vicki you have any other questions no i think that was that was one of the main questions i had on the numbers that we were dollar amounts that we were given all right shay did you have some questions on this great topic um i guess i'm just curious um i don't really understand all of this i guess but um this money is like being given to us it's nothing that as long as we meet these requirements it's okay that's kind of what i'm getting we don't have to pay it back yeah part of the relief yes that makes sense and then um just that i think the one-to-one chromebooks are great and would be great to implement at the middle school and um teacher bonuses are always great because i know my teachers
102are amazing so that's all trying to get a good grade and your principles right tanya did you have any questions or comments here um well i did on slide 14 michael you had spoken to this one and i just wanted to um ask a little bit more about it this is the one slide 14 it talks about presque specific areas that were disproportionately impacted by student groups we specifically spoke about children with disabilities low-income families but we didn't address that third one in either this slide or the next slide which is major racial and ethnic groups that were also disproportionately impacted um due to the pandemic is there any plans or how are we addressing that yeah yeah when we do our day to day we we go beyond the we go down to the
103individual student level the reason why i didn't really address that is because i believe our last demographic poll was 94 percent of students in prescott are white so to look at any one group we don't hit that threshold of having more than 20 students in any one particular group and therefore um can you really make data informed decisions based on a group size less than 20 or end size of 20 and the answer is no but again it's not like that we don't look at those particular kiddos typically the kids are in more than one group um so that's why i didn't necessarily address it but yes we do look at those groups and yes we do have some other some some of our groups and some of our groups are scoring better than average
104um but we do have ones that that are lower than average um for example i know our n i think the group is uh native american or um i think it's hawaiian islander i think is the name of the group that particular group we know is one of our lower groups whereas our asian identifying students are above average right so yep and then i was wondering with that because we're able to use dollars for impact and stuff like that i think of some of our groups and um i think rick talked about one right that might address it but um that's some of more just the cultural programming and the community building and stuff like that um it doesn't sound like the funds are necessarily going for that but i assume it could if we
105had chosen that too okay you know some of the funds we talked about are social emotional right uh curriculum second step that we use um council's choice up at the high school we have a path curriculum um through tasha shu who's a you know a local somewhat celebrity so all of those are things that we're potentially looking at you're marking into this as well thank you that was my only question and this is kind of a it's a big puzzle and it's kind of a trade-off and so by at least booking some of these larger it does give us then if there are additional identified needs then fun 10 can start to be answering and i kind of talked to my admin team one of the biggest challenges and one of the hardest things to
106do is always have to say no or pause on really good ideas that come forward and i think that this gives us the opportunity to maybe take the foot off the brake or take the foot off always having to say no and so that's why we kind of organized it in this way to kind of move very quickly through clear identification of big projects that then allows us to kind of free up fun tent thank you pat yeah a couple questions um rick can you go to slide 19. so slide 19 these are recommendations and then but then we said increased ftes by four okay right so have we have we increased fts by four are we making a recommendation to increase good clarification so these positions we did put in place at different times
107throughout the year all see the first three we did secure in the fall the most recent on the special education was a more recent mid mid-fall decision based on some needs that they came forward so they are in place they are in addition and it was more about kind of what we saw based on the data dig and needs that we are identifying that we could not meet just in the general classroom sure so maybe a follow-up question to that what's what's so we've added for fte have we found that we need to add additional fte for interventionists in reading or math and what might future years look like yeah i'll start with too soon to tell because um one of the things you know we we really do try to use data to drive
108our decisions um we are going to be evaluating um based on our data that we do fall winter and spring to be able to identify the students that we put in these interventions how are they performing and are do they make basically we always talk about taking kids where they are it doesn't matter where they're high middle or low but it's about growth and so the measure that we use fast bridge does have norms and we can identify whether or not if you're a low performing student just making average growth is never going to close the gap so what i would just i would just say we don't have enough information to say if we need more but that's kind of the work that we'll be doing um at the end of the year sure
109makes sense and so and then maybe if we go to slide um i think these were recommendations on on where we're going to spend dollars and is this the right one uh i can't see the numbers so these are recommendations where we spend dollars and and i i uh i shouldn't assume um i would i would hate to spend dollars on no i know we've already talked about some of the literacy programs and i understand that i would hate to spend dollars on materials or or uh you know consumables prior to understanding that data and understanding if additional ftes are needed and and i think that comment in a roundabout way has been made already a couple of times but um maybe could we could we speak to a little bit on the timing and
110until we understand that data and what we need to do do we do we have some time here or no and this is the regular everyday curriculum right yes yeah this is tier one yep not intervention well no that's my question right here so so we're making a recommendation that uh the 360 000 are going to get spent in instructional materials for k5 literacy for ebis math so are these are these regular curriculum investments that we were making yes okay yep and i guess that's my question is is not that regular curriculum is not important but is it too early to spend on regular curriculum when we don't yet understand the gap that needs to be filled in with the intent of these esther dollars yeah the way i would frame it is in particular
111it's a it's a program that we did kick the tires and had a lot of stakeholders in so the curriculum selection process is a pretty extensive one it's available on our teaching and learning website this came to be a necessary need based on our early data suggesting that what we had in place wasn't sufficient prior prior to code right and so now that we have it what we're trying to do again is the main thrust of this is it's emergency one-time funding we're looking to say we have two years where we didn't get additional money from the state we're going to fill that with dollars so that the hope is that our funding from the state kicks in so that we can have continuity of these because once that this spike it does turn off
112right so these dollars the emergency dollars are gone we're going to have to continue to figure out how we budget and this is giving us time both as a finance department or brand new people time to get acclimated and understand how public finance works and give us what i would just say is a breathing room as we build next year's budget and i completely understand that and and the value of of of these these curriculum you know is not lost to me again though i'm i'm going to ask if we don't know the gap that needs to be filled how do we potentially account for that cost risk right and and having to spend you know dollars right now it just if this is going to present a budget challenge with with normal curriculum you
113know expenses how do we how do we bring on additional interventionists or you know whatever i mean oh yeah so what i would say is kind of reframe is that this takes care of the core this list is pretty extensive and we decided to kind of shrink it what it what will allow us to do is as we continue to collect data on our students that are here to make database decisions on how do we group kids if they're making progress and we have a host of other like my reading my virtual reading coach we have a grant that we're going to participate in with americorps where we'll have a reading specialist on site that's specifically trained many districts have been able to have it the last two districts i had worked in it was
114a very successful evidence-based research project so that's going to be added over at malone so we believe that it's we do have the additional interventions available to us and this will allow us if those interventions are successful we'll have more fun ten dollars to then maybe pay for an interventionist or buy more materials okay so some of those programs are read 180 uh system 44 those are kind of computerized reading programs that already exist but it'll allow us just to maybe have more children participated right so so so what you're saying is we're making reasonable assumptions that we're going to be able to cover those gaps as the data suggests that they are there and not have to say next year well we already spent our money just another way to put it yeah no
115i think actually it'll free up so that if there are uh groups of students or individual needs we'll have more flexibility to be responsible okay okay thank you um just another one quick on the chromebooks um you know for middle school you know we talked about the need and you know some of the benefits though um i guess i'm just gonna re-ask the question how necessary are chromebooks it is a necessary expense i've heard about maybe some cost offset of having to update and maintain existing equipment if it wasn't a one-to-one situation did i hear that correctly that's accurate okay all right thank you um i think that was it that was it for me appreciate it i just say the pat that the one-to-one at the middle school would help support the already invested
116in uh science curriculum from three years ago was our implementation year and now we're in refinement a lot of that is web based also our mathematics desmos which is uh started as an online sort of graphing calculator it now it builds the curriculum around that program that's another thing that we had shifted to this year so we definitely need to have that one-to-one down at the middle school and part of it is also the responsibility a student takes when it's their chromebook versus it's a cart that i return it to and we've had a lot of vandalism with some of our chromebooks the nice thing about the one to one at the middle middle school i know we don't it's not on here is that that would then trickle down to the intermediate school where
117right now the intermediate school is we have a cart per grade level so we have 30 chromebooks being shared by roughly 90 students so that's on a rotational basis we would be able to take those some of those carts that are at the middle school level and bring them down to the intermediate level and help support us down here as well and michael um my understanding is that all textbooks newer textbooks anyways but then i can't remember what year switched over has to have a online component so it can play for kids so as a middle school parent i could say that's been one struggle for me is my daughter doesn't take home textbooks for every one of her classes because there's some shared textbooks that are occurring and so this would be an opportunity
118to write where she could listen to the chapter again go back to it because it would be on the chromebook and web base and so some of these kids already have access to that at home but now everybody would have that equal access so yep and some of the programs that we purchased we right now we're purchasing both we're purchasing the online portion of the program as well as the hardcover textbooks if we knew where we were a one-to-one 612 district we could look at maybe at purchasing a classroom set of the textbooks to have available within the classroom but we wouldn't need to purchase one for every student and that would again free up some additional funding for other curriculum all right rick i i i think everybody touched on everything except there was
119one one area that maybe i'll just ask a couple of questions on it's around uh dollars towards capital uh versus people um i think it's great that you know we're investing a lot of people but it has it has come up in conversations that i've had and i just wanted to kind of lay that out a little bit um there's only a certain part of bucket one really is where is where we could have put money or we could put money we could entertain putting money towards capital and one example you gave was that was when it was air handlers is there any other less costly examples or is that is that one of the main ones that i mean there are um so not that i think would be as i talked with mike
120wake up some of the things that districts have done are not fully vetted with regards to can you put different types of lights in your ductwork or near where the air passes through to supposedly kill the virus unknown technology what we it's really about any capital that would have mitigated the chance for the spread of colvids so some districts maybe built deaths and built plexiglass stations and things like that i don't see that as an effective piece especially where we are today and where we're coming out of um you know a less maybe severe variant i think that if you put it basically an air handler is one of the identified pieces because you're looking at one a more efficient tool something that would be now controlled electronically and refresh the air the difficulty is
121we updated malone intermediate with act 32 it's not a problem it's good that we've updated it the high school is uh newer the only one that has a central left would be malone only one third of the building needs it but it's over a million dollars so given that we have a referendum that's specifically geared to essential no frills investments we thought that the dollars you know you would have 80 that you could put toward it but i think it's better served personally to be going into the programming and the people so just entertain the example if if we were to do that we would we would be able to cover very not even 25 of the costs and then we would have to commit the rest of it somehow to put towards that in
122order in order to do that project and and that would put us in a very financially precarious position yes right so i i just wanted to kind of call that out because that's really the situation we have to we have to basically designate these dollars ahead of time then then actually use them and then we get reimbursed correct right so it's it's just a project of that size we can't we can't even cover a quarter of it what's up with the dollars that are that are geared towards the towards us or for esser towards what we can do with them that would be allowable in that case so i just wanted to make sure i had that clear and people have had that question to me and that makes sense um mike i might just
123chime in on that quick too this is just my personal opinion i'm not speaking for the board here i think even if there was a way to kind of you know take care of some of those you know costs with these dollars i i don't think it's appropriate i think these dollars are for a very specific reason and even though there may be a loophole if you will to try to do it i personally just don't think it's a i just don't think it's appropriate it needs to be spent i think in some of the areas that you guys have all done a great job of laying out but with our people and on education yeah i agree uh and then i'm just going to jump back to summer programming quick so we summer school
124is a is a cost uh it's a revenue generator for us as it stands right now so the money that we would put towards the summer programming is that to decrease the bottom line of of summer school costs so then we would we our bottom line for summer school revenue would be higher basically the the revenue it basically would help in that regards as well yes okay and and that money off flows back into our operating budget our fund 10 balance and can be appropriated so i guess my point is all of this is good stuff i'm hoping you know there's a there's a pathway to um compensate people um for for the for the work that they've done over the last two years to get us i mean last year just to keep the
125doors open i know everybody had to bend over backwards and it was uh it was a very challenging year so i'm hoping that some of the dollars that we that we are able to use these esther dollars for to kind of build back fun 10 and also decrease decrease the cost of what we've had to incur over the last couple years can go back into the people and i know that's that's been the plan the whole time here that you've shown us i think it looks good i had some questions on sustainability but i think you kind of answered it but i mean really from like using the chromebooks as an example or some of the materials as an example sustainability of these of these items i mean what it's it all boils down to
126state funding right i mean if if we're going to continue to get zero dollars from the state nothing's really sustainable right i mean so it's it has to that categorical aid per pupil we have to see dollars at some point here um uh be be given to us to maintain and sustain some of this stuff exactly so just a follow-up yeah i honestly don't know because we haven't gone through the process with this amount of money and um we are just at the beginning of just even putting in budgets i can get back to you um we just no one's been able to even and that's i do want to just put something out there is you'll often hear that the people complain that there's a surplus out in the states that no one's spending
127the money we can't spend the money until they give us the rules and we can put in these budgets so it's not that the money isn't needed and it's not that it won't get spent it's just that we have to kind of uh pursue this but i uh i'll follow up and see if there's anything from dpi about how quickly that turnaround is and i should also clarify budgets can always be adapted it's not the easiest thing to do um the one thing we can't do is miss the march 11th date so once that gets in there you do have there's a lot of paperwork that we've been going through already we've had to answer it's almost like submitting a grant we've had to um identify sue gerdes and our administrative team about just clarifying
128each of the interventions each of the you basically have to show the reviews that you've done you do have to submit the curriculum and verify that it's been approved and so that's some of the work that michael will continue to do if anything we're not to get approved we definitely have other things that we would vet and then also i just wanna and i could be wrong so correct me if i am but a lot of this stuff is stuff that we've already approved as part of our budget process what we're looking at where we would already have to be buying materials for origin guild i mean we have to do that anyways or the curriculum is building dust um so i mean some of this stuff is already built within to pat's point is
129that what we're doing is um releasing some of the pressure within the budget so we can reinvest as we learn more about what interventions are needed how many kids needed all that kind of stuff yeah and but to be honest next year's budget is going to be the biggest challenge because it is our costs like everybody else are going up and you know with cpi go you know trending many districts are going to a four percent increase but then you know fuel costs are going up utility costs are going up health care it is capped but it can go up a quarter of a million dollars you can see how having some of this money in next year's budget even for right should help at least smooth out some of the pressure that we'll feel
130in building that budget for next year right on all right um board we have an item to to act on this if we choose to act tonight we can get it done if there's any other further information we can table it until a couple of weeks out but i'm asking the question if if we're ready to make a motion if it seems seems doable then then somebody can make that motion any other dialogue would anybody care to make a motion yep i will i move to accept administrative recommendations on receipt of s or three dollars and the required budget as presented to meet the march 11 2022 deadline i will second all right we have a motion in a second is there any other dialogue on this before we roll call all right pat hi
131tanya hi steve hi vicky hi i am and i as well that motion carries thank you well done and good job on the presentation and and the thoroughness to all the administrators very good job and in the quick turnarounds yeah i know i know it was uh a lot of hours spent uh off off campus so i much appreciated you guys that concludes business we're on information discussion we're going to go the first item is the guiding change document for the academic 2022-23 school year calendar yes michael it's a busy day for you today good evening board thanks for having me back again um i know at the last board meeting i was i was out on covert protocol so i wasn't here and i know you guys approved a calendar at that time and
132then had some questions and some unfinished uh unfinished work to do about the uh the change process so uh asked me to come back tonight and present some of that one of one of the big things is when we're going through a big change and again this change process actually started back when we started our work on the academic model four years ago is how do you how do you move from the experiences that we currently are having in our classrooms as experiences we'd like to have in our classroom and again the most precious thing is time so as a group of educators and learners uh just coming together is what's our focus question what what are we making sure we're always funneling our thoughts and ideas and plans back through so again we're looking
133at how do we create a school calendar that's going to best balance those instructional needs the district academic performance priorities and providing within the work day a collaborative time um for us to team around student needs and that really is our focus and and how can we do that and how can we do it in a sustainable fashion last month when i was in december when i was here i talked about and we discussed the why what's the purpose for this and one of the things is again these conversations started pre-code this is not a response to cobit this is a response to moving as we have talked about internally since is the experiences we had at these the four different schools where learning is based on your ability all the way to school d
134is where we believe all students can learn at high levels and we'll do whatever it takes to meet those students where they are and take them to that next level as you can see again we've all have varying experiences of the school we attended as a staff the school that we believe we work at currently and then the school that we want to have for our children our grandchildren and the school that we want to work at so we started with that back in 2018 and this plc leadership team over about a year and a half process helped to redefine what is that academic model going to look like if we were to become school d where we're going to guarantee learning for all students and i presented about what does it look like sound
135like and feel like both from the students perspective and from the teacher experience where again we're moving away from the teacher-led to the learner-centered experience where we are having discourse and collaborative discussion within the classroom we're seeking knowledge we have a growth mindset and students are really empowered by their learning and they're taking learning to that next level because it's of we're meeting their interest needs but we're also meeting the goals of the curriculum which are standards set out by our state and then what does that look like for teachers you know how do we become facilitators of learners learning rather than the delivery of learning um you know how do we lean into deep conversations in inquiry type discussions and learning activities for our students and then as a group we need to be
136able to work interdependently collaboratively on things and then being able to have that time to carry out those those plans again we talk about being the best it's at getting better that includes short cycles of continuous improvement also known you know like micro professional development not the macro level of the micro level how do we have those short you know through a plan do study and then act your way to a new standard or practice and how we continually go through those cycles again working collaboratively interdependently learning from each other as i often say to teachers some of the best professional development that we can offer each other is down the hall watching another staff member work at their craft and how is that different than what we're doing in our classrooms so that's how
137we got to today a four-year process of where do we want to be as a district as uh the district teachers in the in the buildings and where do we really believe we need to go for our students for them to all have a successful future not this just the ones that choose um or have the innate ability but for all students how can we build that successful future wherever that may be um when we've gone through these processes before if you remember we went through a process very similar to this um about five years ago um if you remember as a board i know some of you weren't here the entire time but since 2011 and act 10 we have added 30 minutes to the teacher contract most of that time has gone on
138to the calendar in terms of instructional minutes so when people talk about how many minutes do we have this year versus years past we're way above what we used to be for instructional minutes but again if we go through a process we usually end up at a more successful place so this is from teamwork i know the board has seen it but i know some people in the public have not you know we're looking at a change process we start with our stakeholder voice and who who is that input team who do we believe that that should be um and as you can see again teachers the administration and families and then how are you going to engage them and probably the the best way to get that is one presenting at parent advisory meetings
139like the malone parent committee and talking about these things and having more of our families engage in those things and then through surveys we have an options team or a team that designs options and again how many options does the board want to be looking at obviously all options need to be viable things like that and then the choice maker group which is is the is the board from there then we would go into that implementation phase one of the things we always create with that though is a guiding change document and the guiding change document has three three sort of labels to it you have your current reality you have your results and what you want to end up as and then what are sort of the the the fence posts or what are
140what are the bumpers on the side of the road of what are your acceptable means what are the things that we will not do um in this process so as we looked at this together as administrative team just who do we believe should be part of all of these and again this is something to ask the board to weigh in on is you know that design team being the principals and that plc leadership team at our district meetings and then obviously the choice makers being the board um rick if you go to the next slide we just before we go any further in the process um i just want to know where the board is and let's ask some clarifying questions because this whole process is to help you make an informed decision about where
141you want to go as a board in that strategic direction and how you want us to get there so i just want to verify before we go any further as we talk about school d and we talk about the experiences that we want um from the teachers believe that we should have for our students and then again that student and teacher experience just a couple things does that align to what the board's vision is you know we've engaged our plc leaders and our faculty around this for four years um well we haven't engaged the board a lot around this so that's one of them is does that align is that where the board feels we need to go and what's best for our for the prescott school district or is it not and is there
142a different direction the board wants to look at is it the right focus question are we focusing on the right things as we go to this design team as we create surveys to try to capture this information is that the right focus that the board wants to have and then the other big thing that comes with any change process is it could be the right idea you could have the right people in the room but it's got to be the right time as well so is this the right time for the board to move forward with this knowing that timelines matter and i think if the board is looking at doing any sort of change to the academic calendar for next year we have to give families ample time ahead to plan for that so
143what's that unacceptable sort of by this time we have to have this to families our decision um as i laid out on a few more slides again we may not go there is i really believe by june our community needs to know if there's going to be a change or not my thoughts i'll just jump in here so last month we approved the calendar as is without the two hour early release we tabled the two hour early release because we wanted to get some more data around around that and one of the key points and board just jump in here if you're thinking something different but um we wanted we wanted the one of the data points to be parent feedback on on what might work best for a to our early release what day
144um also to task each building with coming up with a plan for their building not necessarily something that has to be across across all four buildings it doesn't have to look the same so what what happens in the elementary school doesn't necessarily apply uh to the high school so i i we challenged the administration to come back with some proposals on what what different buildings could do to accommodate those needs and parent feedback community parent feedback was was a piece that was missing from the from this year's early release plan and i think we want to try to incorporate that into if we're going to build it into the calendar we want we want to have that board i miss anything is that well i i would just say that to answer your question michael
145i think this is the right question which is how could we create a school calendar that best balances instructional needs academic priorities i'm kind of paraphrasing here providing work time for teachers to collaborate and stuff so i i think that's the right focus question which is right the question that you're asking us right now i think that's a very appropriate question what i would like to see and maybe a little different than what mike's suggesting i i understand that it would be really difficult to have different buildings doing different things we have things like transportation to think about we have things like if the intermediate school does one thing and the middle school does something else then what does that do to our family so i understand that there's some there's some bounce to be
146creative that's what this changing guiding change document is all about um what i really want to see is some metrics and data around what we're doing right now this year isn't working how are kids feeling i mean we're looking i'm not talking about the field but like are they learning differently is are there more better opportunities in school because we're having more collaboration time you know those kinds of things does the instruction look better essentially um i would like to know how staff are feeling one actual feel as in i know that we have many teachers that are real close to that burnout so i'd be i'd want to know does this does this help but i'd also want to know do they use the time where they use the time for what do they
147value about it all that kind of stuff what are they doing that they weren't able to do before um can they imagine other ways to do it that kind of thing so they're looking around and i and of course want to know with the community and parents as well when it comes to that so so i i'm more looking at i trust you guys when it comes to creativity for i think this is the right question to answer i just want to be reflective and practice that learning process with what we have in place this year take that data bring it back you said june works for me like may let's start talking about what are we learning from from our experiences and stuff like that does that does that help with direction yes yep
148definitely a couple things couple things for me um tanya may have already hit on it too but obviously you guys will incorporate you know the athletics and the arts and and that can mean everything from high school all the way down you know to kindergarten and other activities um i think i think there needs to be so you know so if we look at school d right and that's and that's where you know that's where we want to be as a board it's where we want to be as as a faculty staff and administrators um don't you know you know we need to look at budget considerations too so when you guys are putting together a calendar and i guess this is more of a question for you all is are we are we taking
149a look at the calendar based on current budget constraints or is there ability to say hey this is what a really good looks like and i i personally would like to see some sort of you know options um you know hey if we added you know two ftes right we could we could do this and and then that budget that budget you know constrainter you know would be would be x and then i think um while you guys are looking at this too um you know one thing i'd be really curious about is is what are we doing now again as as administrators faculty staff that that doesn't provide the value and instead of lengthening our days or adding ftes what are we doing now that we don't need to be doing it could be
150as simple as you know we're filling out daily reports that go to uh dr spacuzza and then nothing happens with it right i mean so identifying areas as we're going through the calendar what are we doing now that provides zero zero value i'd be really interested uh in that as we as we add new math programs what are we taking away we're adding things what are we taking away well that's where i was going to say it too yeah tanya asked the question and to me the big question is is does the board want to move forward with this on this timeline of where you know we start talking to our faculty and serving our faculty this upcoming month april we engage our families by may we have options to the board and by junior
151making a decision is that an appropriate timeline or is this something that we need to feather out longer and you know get to our parent groups more inform our the general public our families about school d and what we're trying to become and the you know we we all know the experiences we had in school but what could those experiences look like do we need more time for that or does the board feel like we can inform enough through a survey that parents can understand what's going on and what we're what we're really after and again it's it's not covid i know that keeps being brought up into the conversation and yes every frontline worker is burnt out um trying to move the school deed during covid for sure we're gonna lose people we we
152need that time and again how much time can you squirrel away 15 minutes a day for collaboration that's not useful we need that longer dedicated time so how does that look and what are those different options we could have okay thank you timeline probably makes some sense i think the parent piece should be moved up earlier because i think there's going to be some follow-up that we need to deal with not just to find out when parents would want to have this but we need to understand if they want it and if they don't why they do why it's affecting families we understand we want to move to teachers and kids so they have better educational opportunities at the time of this point having some data back it up but i really think the parents
153must start i would i would echo that comment especially if the recommendation was potentially going to be altering a traditional school day you know time frame right via early release late start i would you know if that's that's potentially on you know up for consideration i echo everything steve says i think the earlier the better and and i would just interject and say um i like your timeline for surveys i don't think surveys are the way to teach and inform right so i think right now we start teaching information what are why do we value this time what's it look like why do you know that kind of stuff and then yeah taking no surveys and getting that information but yeah now's the time to start teaching about the the value of it or why
154people see it as a value and i want to just add one other thing um i'd be interested in and i'm not sure how this would work but one of the things that i'm hearing from families of the hardship about this is that some of our kids that need it the most are losing some time in school so i don't know if there's a way to provide some intervention during those releases for kind of like when covet came and we had certain groups strategically still in the building accessing services so i don't my concern with it and where you i'm sure you'll be much more of a creative thinker than me is um you know our interventionalists are also teachers and staff members that have the need to collaborate and be part of teams so
155we don't want them to lose that but just being creative with how can we still leverage some of that time with our specific groups and just want to just want to echo that 2-5 that does happen those kids that are staying back and really k5 a k1 developmentally learned through play is a lot of what we do and they need that additional time so a lot of that time is played but really two through five that is what we're having we're reaching out to families we're having kids that need that additional time or maybe they've been gone a week for covert or vacation whatever and having them stay and then they are getting that small group intense instruction and support that families need as well because maybe we are working two jobs and we don't
156have time to sit down with our kid on a regular basis and do homework with them and the kids can stay and do some of that work so some of that already is i think that's something awesome awesome but building it up to the high school level i can't see that yep and i know that you guys are doing computer mentoring stuff like that i think that's the teaching aspect of it what is being done during this time you know what i mean yes thank you that's great and while we get a tick update thank you sir the one thing i just want to caution us is rushing too fast i do believe that we need parent input um but we're in the middle of february and we got a really big task with regards
157to communicating out about the referendum and a spring break that falls in march and i want to make sure that the questions are both kind of how we worked with school perception both to your comment about how is that time being used i think we have to articulate that and then also ask the question and i think stevie framed it up it's not just yes no but if if yes why and if no why and i think for us the only thing i would say is i think we can put time in march to get these developed i just think it would be asking a little bit too much and uh over the admin team and create some confusion as we're trying to message out on something else gives me pause about it is that
158i want to make sure that we're collecting the information that you guys want for your informed decision so i want somehow that the board maybe it's just a representative member or you know someone is going through those surveys with us to make sure yep these are hitting all the things that we as a board need to make that informed decision and i always think to dr spacus's point we can you can always i mean this isn't a hard fast deadline right if it's like hey we need more time we're not there we need i mean that's fine i mean i think it's better to do a really good thorough job and and make it you know communicated good data you know i think families will appreciate that too to michael's point is there you know
159just to have a bored voice is somebody interested in as we continue to work through this um to maybe be a representative or a point person that we could run the questions by i think that's a great idea tanya sounds very entertaining no we don't have to nobody has to commit yeah i'm happy too yep my spring break is before your guyses so that would actually wow i'm not going anywhere um other questions i have for the board just you know as we look at and i think if you go slide or two the stakeholder groups um are there any omissions is there anyone else that the board would like to hear from besides for our our faculty and our families where was do you have that listed on that right here sorry we do
160we do have our 4k centers right but you know daycare 4k centers we should check with them well the ymca that program why yeah would be right well student input's going to be we get two hours off of school i mean i don't necessarily think that's all yeah i think shay's shade definitely would like to be here longer she wants to add two hours to the calendar do you remember in elementary school when you really like being in school i mean it's not always the case right now high school too my daughter misses okay so i would say if if there's further further clarification on anything we can we can do it over email tanya's offered up her her time so we can we can kind of hang out the details yep okay then the
161next couple slides i just want to go through is just you know whenever we do a guiding change there's those three big buckets you know your current context in reality um what what are the results you're looking for and then what are those unacceptable means and we put those together but i want the board to weigh in as are there things especially in the um results that we're looking for and the unacceptable means um so currently reality and again there's a full guiding change document i'm not going to go through the whole thing but our current reality is as a board you guys have committed dollars money and time into the plc model um and that the plc's are really our hub for professional development and learning from each other we've taken four years to
162develop an academic model that we believe is best for the future of our students but it's contingent on short cycles of continuous improvement again that collaboration and working interdependently especially in a district this size is some of those special teachers like music working interdependently when there's only one band director at the middle school and one baton director at the high school is getting common times where they can they can meet together so we have some of those k-12 groups that we need to be aware of um you know one of the hardest things is that currently we have a two-tiered busing system so again as we look at can different buildings do different things maybe it depends on is busing needed or not um and that's then that's one of the and i'll come back
163to that in a minute the other thing of our current model is the calendar that you passed last month above the recommended amount of hours from dpi 4k is 25 hours over the recommended k5 is 76 hours and 612 is 32 hours if you reverse five years ago when 15 minutes were added to the teacher contract and again another 15 minutes were added about five years before that even compared to those calendars we are over time of all of those calendars um nine hours at the high school intermediate elementary 51 hours in the in the 4k 12 hours so that's kind of our current reality and where we're sitting right now again based on that focus question what are our desired results again we want to define a school day calendar that again supports those
164plcs those short cycles that micro professional development within the work day and work week keeping transportation costs consistent and again that might be one that i want i want the board to weigh on is that something that you want to want to see and then again placing reasonable expectations on student staff and families again it is a partnership with our families as well and we know that every decision we make creates a hardship on someone but where is that balance of taking on the hardships and the payoff versus the the cost for that payoff um and then again coherent appropriate instruction that again if we're going to model four we're trying to meet the needs of all of our students um not just the ones that so choose and then finally unacceptable means um no
165additional cost to taxpayers um not accepting the status quo this is the calendar and the way it is and we want this big change to move to school d and just get it done within the date that those those contradict each other so if that's what it's going to be then then i think we have to have a different focus question and then obviously adding adding time to the work day of a eight-hour workday again after act 11 since act 11 30 minutes have been added already to the workday um and trying to maintain that 40-hour workweek so here's a data point you mentioned these uh ppi hours school year where we're above yep you start to throw in two hours a week for an entire school year it's gonna flip a couple of those
166right so seeing those numbers be helpful yep and then you know when you talk about making a decision let's say parents surveyed because we expect most of staff are engaged and they're excited about two hours to do their planning parents maybe not so much we get surveys back ninety percent of parents are like one way or another okay great easy decision for us it's not gonna be that way it's gonna be 50-50 we're in that range right so what's what data points then do we make a decision right what are we going to look at to say hey so then that goes back to some of tommy's comments i think as far as you know where's the data what are the teachers doing how are they using it how is it impacting students we have
167to leave that up to you guys to find that information i would probably are we going around are we doing comments here yeah go ahead yeah i i think michael one from the unacceptable means this might align with what steve said but i think it should be consideration to add you know not providing reasonable solutions to stakeholder concerns so if we if we're going to go to stakeholders and we're going to ask for their comments on acceptable means would be not providing reasonable you know solutions um and then also maybe back to the data point here not able to offset those concerns with positive results uh based on some data points that have been collected can i add to that pat um i i think we can't always come up with a reason can you
168just wait a minute so i can get that thought down can you just rewatch that i can't i will okay keep going we started at seven yeah we do every tuesday we go back and watch this like a football team and break it down coach johnson walks me through it this way and when pat walks in um i was just gonna add um i don't think we can always find reasonable solutions i i mean i want us to try that's always our goal it's not always possible but i'd like to to add on that is when it's not possible we have an explanation of why like there's a there's a reason why there's data that supports the why there's you know what i mean and then there's that follow-up of the why i think just
169one thing for me under the results category and i think you guys say it pretty well with your last bullet point but a lot of a lot of this on here is is and rightfully so it's on it's on the professional learning and professional development but i think the last bullet point really gets to um you know appropriate instruction you know pace to meet unique learning needs of every child i think the the results category could have maybe a few more you know learner you know focused results and i know you i know what you mean in here but if this is going to be a shared document that would be important yeah when steve talks about data and what's i mean we we brought up data and then said what specific data will make
170our decisions like that results column if we were to be able to look back at that results column and see yeah we hit these marks or the 90 of these marks or whatever that is that's pretty solid to me that feels good because again i think the question is the right question all right anything else does that give you enough to go out for right now michael plenty all right really good discussion really good feedback tanya thank you for being willing to work with us i think he's done for the night of us yeah maybe we'll see all right we're going to move on imv update on april 5th 2022 referendum so i've asked andrea herzon to join us uh she is our communications specialist also is going to assist me in this uh presentation
171as soon as we get to the front all right so um as you know we have uh moved forward with a question for april 5th of our community for 2022 and it's investing in our schools we have um obviously four wonderful facilities three of them are a little bit older and of course what happened she who's blacking us sudden it went blank all right andrea there we go i think we lost signal all right so the three buildings that we're talking about those dates are meaningful and so sometimes we've used even analogies of a car if i'm looking out in the parking lot i don't see any 1929 1963 1969 cars sometimes we do and we see those on antique shows if you want to be able to keep those cars going we know that
172you're putting a lot of money in those cars to keep them running and so we know that we have these buildings that are part of our investments from our community to meet the needs of our students our faculty are working in these buildings each and every day the community has supported us the 1929 building is our middle school that middle school was added on in 1950 there was a major update with regards to 2004. our malone elementary building is 1963. the intermediate the previous high school is 1969. just like a mechanical the reason that you don't see these types of cars in our parking lots is their mechanical operationally sooner or later they outlive your ability to continue to function unless there's a lot of investment so very similar our buildings we're not talking about
173high high thrill high frills with regards to what is going to be invested we are talking about no frill investments in infrastructure to make sure that our roofs our boilers our windows our doors are taken care of and again in a similar way if you walk through these buildings the floors sparkle the windows are clean mike hoyka his custodians they do remarkable things they even fix heaters that go out right at the middle school so it's not about operations within the daily taking care of our facilities it's about major parts of a facility that sooner or later structurally break down so how did we get to this point andrea you want to walk us through how we collected information and how we were able to call the question sure i'm going to review quickly the
174road to referendum i think it all started in spring of 2019 when sds architects now river valley architects and apex engineering did a very comprehensive facility study of the three buildings but not only did they do a facility study they interviewed teachers and educators and asked them about their space they looked at you know grade configurations they really looked at how best to utilize all the spaces we had what was being used what would be best for instructional for our teachers and what they were teaching they in august of 2019 they gave us our facilities report many many line items on that list we continued to work with sds architects who worked with the board and we went through many many iterations of options to present to the community in a 2020 survey by school
175perceptions those they presented we narrowed it down to two pathways the pathways had two things and one thing in common that they asked for safe and secure entrances at two of our schools and the major difference in the two pathways was that three of the schools were to have instruction in using the middle school the middle school as a community and administrative building and in the second pathway there were four instructional buildings um we listened to the results from the survey and the community was not yet ready to invest in that kind of money at that time they needed some more information um so we went back to the drawing board i mis i missed a little work in between 2020 and 2021 we did put on an rfp for project management we went through
176that process there's you know been a lot of hours and hours put into this and thought and we interviewed prospective construction management companies and decided on one of those and then this summer once we had the construction management they wanted we wanted input from our community members so we we formed that facility advisory committee made up of 11 community members that represented different ages genders and they also were from all five of our municipalities they met from um june until actually up to november august to november and came up with three options for the school board to consider and you guys um had all unanimous unanimously voted excuse me voted passed except for one to move forward with that 15 million dollar resolution and so now we've been working hard behind the scenes to get
177ready get information ready for the public and get ready to present that so there will be one question on the ballot and that is to issue general obligation bonds not to exceed 50 million dollars and those will all be invested in those and the three of our older buildings um rick presented those ages and that comes out to an average age of 64 years for those three or older buildings and again it's it's no frills it's things like hvac it's roofs plumbing pipes and ada compliance um the the facility advisory committee along with two of our board representatives really went through um hundreds of line items that were on a spreadsheet and prioritized them to come up with come up with their their plan and so what you see here are really the bigger items
178there it goes down to very piecemeal things but at the elementary school and the intermediate school a large project is the roof partial roof at the elementary and complete roof at mis again it goes to those those really things needed to keep the buildings functioning the exterior of the buildings were really if you looked had a chance to look at any of the pictures were really deteriorating they differed there with in malone elementary we really need bathrooms that are ada compliant and then a major project at the intermediate school is to have some abasis abatement in some classrooms that are currently not usable to free up that space for instructional purposes and then at the middle school we just have four projects again improving the exterior of the building plumbing hvac upgrades electrical and a
179fire alarm system you've seen this slide already so i won't go into a lot of detail but it was part of our public hearing with regards to esser dollars the primary thing is to understand that it is impossible for school districts the way that we are funded to put away save or put a lot of fund ten dollars into projects that are at this scale 15 million dollars since fund 10 is how public schools are funded there's only the money that we can put into people programs and performance so every dollar that comes out of fund 10 is a dollar that's coming off somebody's salary coming off their benefits coming off a program that we're trying to put in place to make sure that we have a highly desirable and highly robust programming for the
180prescott community so as you know fund 10 is the primary general fund of all public schools it's looking at and making sure that the salaries the benefits are both competitive and also meeting the guideposts that the board had set to be in the top 75th percentile we've made strides we're not there yet but we have made over the last three years incredible strides at bringing our hourly employees up above 15 and also adding on to our teacher salaries it also is about programs the type of programs that our students are able to access whether or not it's year-long programming the high school with regards to advanced placement and the good news about the articulated credits so our students are saving or parents are saving over a quarter of a million dollars because our students are
181able to take classes that are given getting them college level credits here in prescott high school that is available to any of the university of wisconsin colleges in addition we have educational programs at all levels and intervention programs it also helps fund all of our arts our athletics our fields and the upkeep of those and then transportation the difficulty if you have no additional dollars coming in for the last two the pipeline is drying up not only is that pipeline drying up but we have holes in that bucket holes in that bucket on the bottom right goes back to we provide public education for all children special education was promised to be funded by the federal and state government at eighty percent they are currently below thirty percent we've been told trust us we'll help
182you out but that money is coming out of fund 10 at the tune of 1.7 million dollars if that got changed at a legislative we'd put a cork in it we'd hydrate that bucket more money for people programs and performance we also know that on the bottom is that we have major infrastructure roof square footage we might be able to bargain get a deal from somebody but in general that malone intermediate building has the second largest square footage when you have to replace a roof that large it's going to cost you 1.5 million dollars and so you start to add these projects up for buildings that are on average 60 plus years old it is going to be generational costs and so that's what we're looking at being able to take care of the investments
183that already exist in our community and ensure that we keep and are good stewards of those investments moving forward the question has been is about impact on taxes and what we have been able to work with baird on two very specific things we have been able to prepay certain bonds by pre-paying those bonds it's like paying off a home equity we no longer are making those payments on mortgage and principal we are also trying to pre-pay additional bonds third if this is successful we are at historic lows with regards to financing bonds that are currently schools are able to get two percent or lower we do have additional bonds currently that are above four percent so if this is successful it allows us to prepay some bonds repackage bonds at a lower uh interest rate
184that are at historic lows and if you're watching the markets you know that those historic lows are about to go away so the time is right the need is here there's no debating whether or not the structures need to be invested in and we want to take pride in the buildings that we have so that they can meet the learning needs for our children and our community in the future you can learn more and i'll turn over to you can learn more um if you have kids that are in 4k through 5th grades they had backpack flyers that went home that explain a lot about the the different aspects of the referendum we have many many ways that you'll be able to learn more we'll have three public meetings at each of the schools that
185are involved in the referendum the format for these will be a short presentation and with building specific information you'll be able to tour the facility and see some of the work that is included in the plan and then they'll that will be followed by a short question and answer session on march 31st we'll be having a community referendum session at the high school here out in the cafeteria and we will be having some of our vendors attend so that after our presentation you can sit down with them they'll be in their own area sit down with them and ask any questions you have about the work that's involved baird financial course um and then river valley architects whose sds architects and then marketing johnson who would actually be our construction manager managers that would actually
186do the work if it is approved um and i think rick you're going to take us out to the website to show the referendum page that um miss mandy matsuk has worked so hard on look at that all right so if you could you if you go out to the home page rick so we can show people how to get there all right there's a couple of ways you can go under district and go the referendum also if you scroll down there's actually a tab so you can do either and hit on the belt okay we have just kind of general information the bond question the dates of the open houses and if you scroll down we have some frequently asked questions and just for navigation purposes we'll show you how to get to the
187actual responses so what do we have what how will student staff and the community benefit so if you have to actually click on the plus sign to get to the the response all right and then um there's some some of the same pictures that you've seen of the work that's going to be done um and then if you scroll down a little bit there's some did you know questions some of these questions are not really pertaining to the maintenance work to be done but have to do with our district one of them is actually the the work was saving families monies for doing the classes the college classes so just some kind of positive things about our district and our programming and then if you go on the right hand side i call it the
188gutter i think it has a different name more information about voting tax impact and then you can even track back if you if you click on the facilities planning page here and i got a recast sorry oh no all right so if you click there that's going to take you all the way back to the facility advisory committee and the work that led all the way up from from august of 2019 up to today i talked to helmer printing and they will be sending out a four-page mailer with referendum information to every household that should be in your mailboxes by the week's end or the beginning of next week as well any questions anyone from the board have any questions here this website looks great it looks good yep thank you really great i like
189how you showed us how to get there i really appreciate how there's stuff that's going in the mail there's communication going home with kids we've got websites information sessions just a lot of different ways of making sure information is out for for people that want that wanted there's an opportunity for people and and we'll be adding more faqs as they come in from the community up we have those meetings and we also have another video coming of you know we have those broader videos of each building now we're going to have it narrowed down to the work that's included in the plan for the referendum thank you yeah so it's really great thanks andre yeah so very soon march 2nd march 9th we'll be out uh this meeting time is at seven o'clock and um
190encourage anybody you can come to all three or you can pick and choose but we'll be making sure that people have an opportunity to kind of ask questions and informally take a walk through each of the buildings all right thanks rick thanks andrea we're to move on imc board review and public presentation of the superintendent eval end of year 2020 21. um we did this last year i don't know if you have a copy of it right that you can cast or do i don't think yeah i think you have it um we did we did this last year after after the performance review uh we issued a public statement uh that was a summary a summarization of of the superintendent performance review so this is the the second time we've done this uh so
191i'm last year i read it verbatim i'm going to read it verbatim again and then hopefully we can just post this somewhere on our site so okay i'll i'll see if i can find it yeah do you want me to share it it's called i just shared it again it's about 20 20 21. wow that was a shooter with you i know but it's just it's like the passport gets lost within all this technology all right i see it i will cast it all right so let's start the prescott school board met with dr spakuza on january 12th for the purpose of delivering the school board's annual summative review of the superintendent's work over the 2020-21 school year ending june 30th following the 2019-2020 school year when the pandemic began this school this school year
192presented a similar yet perhaps an even more difficult set of challenges for our administration and staff to navigate some of these challenges included new state and county mandates new legislation to learn and comply with in a significant amount of covid related guidelines and protocols to prepare execute and provide continuous communication on all without being able to predict what the landscape of each new week was going to look like the school board took these additional factors and workload into consideration when working through the evaluation process and conducting the performance review the review highlighted the following strengths in high performing areas for doctors pakusa financial stability increased contributions to the district general fund which is now nearing the recommended ceiling for board policy fund 46 the capital maintenance fund grew significantly which has eclipsed one million dollars
193in less than five years since being established improved the district's moody's rating to aaa putting us in a greater position of strength for purchasing voter approved bonds to be used for capital maintenance license and non-licensed staff were able to get solid pay increases even as our revenue from the state remains flat in the area of instructional leadership was able to keep grades k through five on site all year a significant achievement given the extenuating circumstances of state and county mandated quarantined protocols dpi state report card placed prescott school district in the top 15 percentile in the state in math and reading increase college and career readiness opportunities by developing new programming and partnerships saving families future post-secondary educational costs and establishing established a one-to-one chromebook adoption for prescott high school students helping bridge the challenges
194faced with the hybrid with hybrid and virtual instruction and then the next one is exceptional level of understanding and execution of financial and legal issues along with communication around current and possible changes to federal and state laws and lastly effective leadership was exhibited on all kovid related fronts especially as it relates to the safety of the students the staff and making tough and sometimes unpopular decisions the review also highlighted the following opportunities for growth within the district office increasing the efficiency and effectiveness and collaboration and creating well-defined job roles and responsibilities reporting structure and ability to maintain staff in key roles number two development and improvement of employee engagement consultation and satisfaction and number three increasing delegation of responsibilities to direct reports with an emphasis on defining communication that can be leveraged through the communications
195team in summary dr spacuza continues to excel in many areas with financial stewardship of taxpayer dollars being added near the top along with his continued focus on providing a high quality education for students furthermore he has he has demonstrated exemplary leadership on behalf of the district at the height of an unprecedented pandemic where on a national level turnover of staff administration and school board members have approached all-time highs and more workload stress and tension reach levels many people have not experienced dr spacuza shouldered the burden as the head of the organization making extremely difficult and sometimes unpopular decisions throughout the year although the board agrees that he has areas we would like to see improvement on we do recognize and appreciate the work he has done to advocate for our educators and students and his
196commitment and dedication to this most public role in our community the partnership with the school board and administration team dr spakusa will continue to lead our district and guide us toward our mission district mission goals and expectations all right and that is that so we'll move on to item d board development work session with teamworks on february 23rd correct um we do have assigned we do have christine robleski who has committed i believe two hours for that night it would begin at 5 30 with an end time at 7 30. um i think part of it is to look at board evaluation roles and protocols i think it also could tie in with regards to metrics assigned to opportunities for growth for the superintendency and one of the parts of getting ready for that is
197she has developed a survey mike and i have kind of looked at the questions together we would mike and i still have to finalize the feedback but the goal is just to be able to gather information from the five of you prior to walking in so that we start and have traction as we begin that work it's likely not a one and done and so it's making sure that we just kind of meet your needs and wanted to see if there was any additional thoughts making sure the time place and the agenda is what needs to be done so that's next week anybody have any any questions or comments about the workshop i think there's going to be is there going to be a did you say survey going out to the board members yeah
198you and i have to still refine it or finalize it anything on that next week we'll be along my long workshop um all right let's move on board work session on academic performance so this is for the report card yes so we've kind of talked about you know how the process that we've used and to be able to identify but we also had talked about that the board uh should have a full uh understanding and grasp of the report card and local assessments and so we thought it would be important to get that on the calendar so i know we have the workshop next week is there any this was one that we kind of had uh we wanted we wanted to try to get to as soon as we could i know we were
199you know we're constantly in meetings and everything but is there any chance that we can try to meet march before spring break or is that is that too quick of a turnaround my assumption is that everything's ready to go right so the edmond team is admin team is ready it's just kind of michael's right should we do it right now no okay good good idea okay um it is i just added up it's the 21st through the 25th okay so if there's if there's any openings we could try to try to jam something in on a wednesday in early march one of the thoughts was that prior to maybe one of the open houses if you wanted to kind of the open houses start at seven well that's right we have open houses on on
200those wednesdays don't we so you could do something where you could start in that open or in that work session go through the data and if anybody's able to participate you'd be right on site it's i mean i i would look at the admin that's a lot for you guys i mean because i would assume i don't know who michael i mean i think we should probably pick a different night um can we michael doesn't want to come he just saw that can we work i mean that's a long night can we work can we work offline and just try to find some dates that might work for all of us and maybe i can get your open dates for march and we can try to figure out if there's a date that works for
201everybody maybe one out of the 31 days in march so this march 30th on there oh that's a change gotcha i get it right yep well the 16th was going to be our regular board meeting right uh that actually is on the tap for right but right now we all got it reserved so if we're going to move the board meeting we could save the 16th as a workshop date uh that's not going to work okay 16th okay getting moved that's why we're moving is joining us on monday okay i will uh have her send out a google calendar yeah let's do that and figure out what works for all of us if we can if we can fit it in a march that's that'd be great if if it has to get moved out
202then then we will but um let's try to let's try to make it happen in march okay and then lastly is the march board meeting suggested change for march 30th so that's what you were referring to pat right now it's currently march 16th um we would like other they would like to move it to march 30th if if the board can make that work why i will not be here so if it doesn't work then we can keep it on the 16th and you guys can meet but uh was there other was there other data that was things on the agenda for march that would have been nice to have the extra two weeks to prepare for rick you recall uh no i think given that you were able to make the decision on the
203budget yeah whether or not you move to accommodate schedule or go on the 16th i think we're game to go either way right so if we can make march 30th work i would appreciate it if it's not um as far as i know all right thank you um should we do we need to make a motion here to change that or does it just go into that just helps uh because we just have to helps we will move it okay so let's consider the march board meeting is moved to march 30th same time thank you guys girls all right that concludes information discussion we have recognition of visitors if there's anybody left that would care to be recognized come on up and state your name and municipality thanks for sticking around yeah yeah super angry
204tonight i know a rust slap uh oak grove township you hear me okay what was your what was your name ross lap l-a-p-p um i just want to talk real quick about the early release and the impact at st joseph's parish school how it's impacting and if we could take this into consideration as we move along with the busing i believe that that school is in a position where they want to continue on with the three o'clock release time but cannot do that due to the bussing i know it's probably a little too late for the rest of the school year to consider that to reverse that decision but moving forward if we do implement this plan that we can't take st joe's parish school into consideration and also make that notification to that school
205so to allow them to make necessary adjustments for transportation because we'll see what happens as time goes on but i do believe that they're going to want to continue with a full day of school mondays or whatever days decided for the public school i think the other thing great presentation as we move on and look at what we want to do here is you know is our community ready for a change from the traditional school day you know i think that's i don't know if we're there the data as it comes in and it'll be exciting to see what the results are i do appreciate your time and dr great presentation i learned a lot this evening and thank you thank you very much anybody else all right we can consider a motion to adjourn
206i'll move to a journal second all in favor all right aye opposed that carries thank you have a good night