001All right, we're streaming and recording and the mics are live. >> That's okay. [laughter] >> Did this for you should get a chain for it. >> Thank you. >> It is 6 o'clock. I will call the Monday, December 8th, regular board meeting to order. Roll call, please. >> Lori Zarbach, >> here. >> Don Kusky >> here. >> Andrew Coupe >> here. >> Phil Hle >> here. >> Kevin Jensen >> here. >> Miriam Vra >> here. >> Bert Richard >> here. >> Nelly Sher >> here. >> And Doug Kuchko >> here. And Randy, was a proper notice given for this meeting? >> Yes. Please be advised that public notice of this meeting as required by sections 19.84 and 65.90 of the Wisconsin statutes has been properly given. Such notice consisted of a notice and agenda to
002the official newspaper, the Rice Lake chronotype, to the Oaklair leader, and to radio stations WJMC and WAQE indicating the date, time, and place of the meeting. Such notice was given more than 24 hours prior to the meeting. >> Thank you. It does appear that a proper notice was given for this meeting. We will now stand for the pledge. I pledge 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. >> These days my country. [laughter] >> All right. I'd like to welcome everyone here tonight. And we are at uh the month or part of the month where we get to recognize some of our students. It's one of the most exciting things we as board members
003get to do is see some of our students and hear about their wonderful activities that they're involved in and how well they're doing in the classroom and and as students in the Rice Lake Area School District. So, congratulations. And we will start with the Rice Lake High School. And oh yes, and over here by Mr. Frost and and Bert. We have a little spot for parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, whoever wants to get in there. They can videotape, they can record, they can take pictures, whatever, right from that good location. >> Good evening. Kohoki, principal at the high school, and I have the honor to stand in for Jen Kazakawitz, one of Steven Anderson's teachers. Stephen Anderson is a junior at Rice Lake High School and a great a great student. And some of the things
004that Miss Kohazakowitz is recognizing Stephen for tonight is academic excellence, perseverance, and resilience. Steven has shown a ton of growth this school year in the area of success skills, perseverance, resilience, and independence. He is always willing to work hard in class, participates fully, and contributes to the positive school climate. And these are the reasons we are very proud of Steven and excited for him to earn this special recognition for his efforts. >> [applause] [clears throat] [applause] >> Rice Lake Middle School. [clears throat] Good evening. Uh good good evening everybody. Uh Josh Olen, Tracy Miller, sixth grade uh at the middle school and we're here to present um to this wonderful lady. Um wonderful award who's much deserving. Um I guess there's an old the common saying is if you had 23 or 24 of them
005in your class, life would be well this is one of them. So, uh, Olivia here, Olivia Wilker is an absolute joy to have, uh, in our classes. Academically, she brings her best efforts and eager attitude to class each and every day. Olivia goes the extra mile when material is more difficult for her without hesitating and complaining. Um, in addition, her positive outlook, friendly smile, and encouraging demeanor bring an authentic style of leadership to her classmates. But most impressive is Olivia's all-around perseverance and resilience. She embraces difficult learning situations and is not afraid to take classroom risks. She may not always succeed the first time. However, you can count on her getting back up to try again by asking questions and digging deeper into her inquiries. So, Mrs. Miller and I are so proud of you,
006Olivia. You bring so much sunshine into our classrooms. You have no idea. And your future is even brighter. So thank you for being you. So congratulations, [applause] baby. >> Trying to look at >> Hilltop Elementary. What a cutie. >> Okay. Hi, I'm Sarah Brham. Um, this is Nevada Hansen and I teach kindergarten. She's a kindergarten student and I nominated Nevada um for her leadership, citizenship, perseverance, and resilience. Um, Hilltop is focusing on kindness this year. And when I think of a student showing compassion and kindness to everyone, I think of Nevada. If a student in our class is feeling sad or hurting, Nevada is one of the first students to notice. She will go out of her way to check on others and try to make them feel better. The way Nevada shows excitement in
007the simplest moments just makes you smile and brings joy to all the everyone around her. Anytime I give her suggestions on how to make her work better or if I remind her to focus, um, she has a positive attitude and tries her best. I love how Nevada is just always herself. Um, she's very upbeat and in a good mood most of the time. Her bubbly personality helps make the classroom a better place and her thought thoughtfulness is a great example to anyone who encounters her. SHE'S A GREAT STUDENT. [applause] OKAY, let's look at [laughter] mom first. [applause] All right, Tainter Elementary. [clears throat and cough] >> Hi, I'm Ashley German, kindergarten teacher at Tainter. And I'd like to introduce to you Harper Barts. Um, I nominated Harper. Not only is she an excellent student in
008the classroom academically, but she's just a really great leader at the age of five. Um, she comes to school every day with a smile on her face, ready to learn, always excited for anything that I have planned. It doesn't, it could be the smallest thing, and she's just ready to do it. Um, if a friend needs help in the classroom, she's just that kind-hearted student that's going to help that person as well. Um, so congratulations, Harper. We're very proud of you. [applause] Now we have two for Hogan Elementary. So we'll start with one. >> Go. >> Whichever uh [laughter] teacher wants to go first and we'll start there. Ready? [laughter] >> Ready, Mom? >> Yep. >> Okay. Uh I'm Mrs. Dennis and I have um Kaia wasn't able to come to the last schoolboard meeting,
009so she's here tonight, so that's why we're going twice. Um I nominated Kaia for student of the month um for her perseverance and resilience. Um she is truly a delight. Um, she comes to my classroom, works diligently, never complains. Really any classroom she goes to. She utilizes strategies she has taught and puts them to good use wherever she is in the building. She wants to know what she got wrong so she can make a note to herself to do better next time. She wants to better understand her learning, and it is very refreshing. She is a student who is always trying and looking to get better at what she is learning and doing. She has her own sense of style [clears throat] and she owns it. [laughter] Uh, every day she has a headband on
010of some kind of sort and it's she's just as amazing. So, um, I see her um owning her own sense of style in her learning as well. So, she knows who she is and what she needs to do and um, she does that so she can be successful and she works hard to achieve her goals. [applause] Turn around. [applause] >> And Hogan Elementary. >> It's fun. >> [laughter] >> I'm Mrs. Xrand. I teach kindergarten at Hogan. And this is Ernie. I nominated Ernie for his academic excellence, creativity, leadership, citizenship, and perseverance. And Ernie is a very enthusiastic and successful learner. He is a creative thinker and he gets really excited to make connections about what he's experienced outside of school with school. He also is um hardworking and he puts forth his best effort in
011every subject area and he isn't hesitant at all to do hard things. And Ernie is a very good role model to his classmates. He's eager to help others. He always has a smile on his face. He has a positive outlook and he's kind and he shows respect to his fellow students and to teachers. Ernie helps to make our classroom a great place to learn and grow together. So congratulations Ernie. [laughter] >> Hi Ernie. I'm Bert. [laughter] [laughter] >> I don't even know if Sesame Street's a [laughter] thing. >> Good one. Anyways, >> all right. I would like to congratulate all our students that were recognized this evening and to let you know that your names will be added to the drawing and at the end of the school year, we will be drawing names out
012of a dish and uh some lucky winners will receive a Chromebook. So, good luck in the drawing at the end of the school year. And at this time, we'll take a brief moment. If anybody wants to leave, you're welcome to stay, but >> good idea. [laughter] maybe left your car running. >> I don't know who is prouder there, Grandpa or Ernie. I don't know. >> Thanks for repping the G, Josh. >> Thanks for repping the G. [laughter] >> Take care. Kid goals under control. Well, guess what? You just got to get better in school. >> Let's just hope no one gets close. >> [laughter] >> You can join their >> hobnob. [laughter] [laughter] All right, we will get the meeting going again. We have nobody uh for appearances. So, we will move on then. I
013would entertain a motion to approve the regular session meeting minutes from Monday, November 24th. >> So, moved. >> Have been made and seconded. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I. >> I. >> Opposed. And the minutes have been approved. Next, we have our consent agenda where we have our monthly budget and cash reconciliation report, the board bills, and we have uh four employment rec uh resignations and no employment recommendations. At this time, I would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. So moved. >> Motion has been made. Is there a second? >> Second. Motion has been made and seconded. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I. >> I. >> Opposed? And that uh consent agenda has been approved. Next, we get into
014our report section where we'll start off with the 2025 Education Foundation Growth Grant Award recipients. >> Yes. So, just uh a little bit about the Education Foundation of Rice Lake. And Lori Zarbach was a part of this for >> a long time. a long time. [laughter] A long time. And the education foundation of Rice Lake is an independent notfor-profit organization whose purpose is to help uh Rice Lake school district teachers throughout the district and students uh excel in programs that are not funded by public tax dollars. The foundation has created an endowment which in turn helps provide and sustain district-wide opportunities for educational excellence. And the mission of the education foundation of Rice Lake is to nurture excellence through private funding of innovative educational programs that inspire kindergarten through high school students and teachers to
015achieve excellence. And the education foundation of Rice Lake is a tax taxexempt charitable endowment from which the principal is never used. Only interest earned from the investment of principal and donations received are ever spent. And to date, the foundation has awarded well over $100,000 to staff members uh throughout the Rice Lake Area School District um and the students within to help with projects. And so this evening uh we have a few people here to talk about uh their re their uh what they received this year and and what that's going to and Pete that's the first one the first link Colleen had on the agenda. So it's you. Uh thank you again for inviting us to kind of speak. So um I was part of uh two grants or it's been many grants for the
016education foundation of Rice Lake over the year who's been an integral part in growing kind of competitive robotics in our community. So I'm just kind of here more than anything to give you an update as to how some of those funds have been used recently. So, um, one at the high school level or with Warrior Robotics, um, just a invitation to, we do have our regional tournament coming up this Saturday, December 13th. Uh, that is in the Oolsen gym. Uh, it pretty much is going to matches more or less run from 9:30 to probably about 4:00 in the afternoon. Uh, open to the public free of charge. We we invite many people to come and and check out what's going on. this year. It um to date it's actually the largest regional tournament um regional
017level tournament uh in the state right now. So I think we're up to actually 34 teams as of was this morning. So it's going to be a pretty big sized tournament. Um and I think that's kind of um without the education foundation of Rice Lake, there's no way Rice Lake would have become a destination for competitive robotics. And now it is. I'm getting people from all over the state, sometimes the UP, sometimes Minnesota that are coming to our tournament because they heard there's pretty good competition. So they they want to take it check it out. Uh this year um at the high school level we have uh eight teams. I've um our program got so big we were we were competing with up to 12 teams that the uh national or international I guess the
018rec foundation who governs all of this basically said that bigger programs like us were kind of limited to how many what percentage of a a given tournament can be made from one organization. And so we've had to kind of like have kind of small uh less teams but uh kind of bigger teams. So we still have quite a few students involved but we're actually competing with less teams. And I actually think it's kind of been good because it it it even gets the key instead of working in groups of three kids are learning how to group work in groups of four and five which is a different skill set than uh triads and um actually in in many cases proving actually more effective I think this year and maybe taking some of the stress off
019of some of our more competitive teams. Um so we have over 30 Rice Lake High School kids that are competing. Um and at the lower levels um St. Joe's has had a program that has Education Foundation of Rice Lake has supported uh through a grant as well that has has just blown up. So they have uh 34 kids on nine different robot teams. Uh everything from uh 8-year-old third graders to uh to eighth graders. Um so just this last Saturday at St. Joseph school. Um we had I think 41 teams from all over the state that came and competed. Um so that program continues to grow and and because of that growth there and that success there, it it's growing within our county. So this part of uh grants and community support has led to
020the development of the Baron County VEX IQ League which we started last year. So last year that was uh Rice Lakeake Middle School which was able to start a program uh with uh quite a few teams, a lot of student interest to start out with last year. Um as well as uh um um St. Joe's. So this year uh that has gone to Baron Middle School. So Baron Middle School now has five teams competing. And so about four times over the winter um we we gather for kind of a in the evening for an ongoing uh tournament and then we also kind of compete in some Saturday tournaments spread across the winter. So again uh Baron County is growing. Uh, I know even at the tournament this Saturday, I have I've got to the point
021where I've I have so many other school districts calling me wanting advice on how to govern like Cumberland and and Phillips, Wisconsin. And I will go on and on to many smaller districts that want to get something going in their school. And I've just basically at this point said, you just need to come to the tournament because I can't take an hour with you to talk with all of you. So, we actually have a lot of a lot of uh smaller school districts that are kind of looking into starting programs that might be there on Saturday to to kind of learn about what that's what it's all about. Pretty so pretty neat. Um so, just in in general, we um just in our community in in Rice Lake Baron alone, we have over a 100
022kids kind of now competing in in VEX Robotics, which is pretty cool. Um I think the reason why that's happened, Education Foundation, uh grant has been huge. uh um we can't we couldn't grow and get to that sustainable growth that point we needed to without that support. And it wasn't just a one year or two-year thing. It was about a 4-year kind of investment. Um and they are not the only community um members who have been extremely generous. And just to kind of um I just want to recognize uh for Warrior Robotics, McCain Foods again is is giving $10,000 this year um as kind of our program level sponsor, but other people have come involved. So, Los Automation and Link Forward have now contributed um funds for our our current tournament uh to help sponsor
023that. Uh Rice Lake Wighing Systems is supporting the Rice Lake Middle School program at a $6,000 level. Uh we've gotten funds from the Rice Lake Celebrity Classic um for both Warrior and Spartan Robotics in order to kind of maintain the league. And then 3M continues to kind of donate to Warrior Robotics as well. So, uh, these programs, they are they're expensive. Um, and unfortunately, they don't get cheaper. Parts get more expensive and travel gets more expensive. And so, without, um, so many different willing people and organizations kind of coming together to to kind of help us out, we wouldn't be able to kind of sustain this growth. And, and now, I think for it looks like about the seventh year in a row, we we we're just continue to grow. So, pretty cool. Uh, again,
024invite you come on out if even if you could stop for a half hour and just check out some matches. Um, I know the high school right now I we're pretty excited. We got a couple teams that have been doing it for a long time and I I think they're starting to kind of put everything together and they they they are pretty competitive so they want to they want to do well. So, thank you guys for your time. I appreciate it. >> Right. >> Christy Thurs I think is coming up last year last year. >> And Mr. Peterson, it's going to be like a high of minus one on Saturday. So, why not stay inside and come watch, right? >> That's right. >> Good evening. Um, I'm here to talk about um the signs that
025you've seen in our community. Um, I had sent a few to Randy so that if you haven't seen them, um, you can see them on the screen here. Um the kids um these kids are from the middle school and the one that was above it was some kids from Hilltop Elementary, the lung kids from our community. Um these signs have been put up across the district at our our local schools. Um and they were um our our idea was that we wanted to promote um community pride, spread kindness and inclusion to everyone and encourage neighborhood cohesion because what um the research shows us is that me positive messaging provides a tool to improve our mental being. It also impro helps us reduce stress. It fosters a sense of well-being and it encourages positive behavior. The
026kids have been helping us with these signs. Each month we switch them out. The kids have been putting them out in our schools. So the middle school kids come over from over to Hilltop to my office. They pick some signs out and they go out and put them in their schools. And we've been doing that with the schools of the Hill uh high school kid. um counselors have been bringing some kids over and then they go out in their cars um that I think they're the helpers in the office come and gather signs and put them out and Sherry from Tainter takes her kids some signs back and has her kids help out. So we've been really trying to have the kids be involved and help design them as well. So, we currently have and
027we currently have 26 signs we've published already through Amazon. Um, and 10 more are ready to be purchased and we have about 20 enough dollars to buy about total of 26 more through our grant. So, we've been really appreciative of the grant we earned through the education grant system. Um, right now we're having a little trouble with the snow because we're not sure how we're going to get those out. Um, actually some of them have gone missing because I think the snow plow um, men have either picked them up or I'm not sure where. So I have to search those out this week and find out where they [snorts] might have went. But um, we next year we were going to put some more thought into what we might have to do for when the
028winter months come through. Yes, >> I know. I know. I know. >> Yes, Bill. >> Get yourself a hammer drill and the long 8 inch masonry [laughter] bit >> and just drill a couple holes in 2x4s that match the wires and that's how you do it. >> Awesome. >> There we go. [laughter] >> Sounds like he's going to bring those by later this week. >> You lost me at Hammer. >> I'm calling you, [laughter] Bill. And >> but we've had a lot of positive comments and positive reactions to these signs. Community members have commented to us how much they enjoy seeing the change every month when we change them out. Um people have commented it's nice to see change. We nice to see the different ones um throughout the schools. It'd be great to have
029more signs to even put in different public places that we could see along Main Street and different places like that. So, um, we're hoping to continue this continue this project next year. Um, and we're still thinking through of how we can do that. Um, Natalie mentioned to me this um, a week ago or so that she had talked to Roger Britain um, and he is working with some students right now. Currently, he's um, doing a graphic design program and he's going to have some of those kids um, do some signs for us as kind of a project for them to do. um in their classroom. Um and so there's a lot of ways that we've been thinking about different ways we can continue this project next year. Um and we may apply for another grant.
030So um but we the kids as you can see um have [clears throat] enjoyed this and we are really appreciative of the grant money. So um any questions you might have about that? Yeah, >> I think you have a great opportunity to go out to businesses. They would. I mean, I would love I mean, I would put this at Boys and Girls Club, but I think you'd have private businesses. I mean, Don, you could have one right out in front of your dentist office. I mean, this is a huge opportunity for us to just spread this throughout the community. And I think there's a sustainability right there that you could go and say, "Hey, who wants to buy a be kind sign for 20 bucks and they might I think it has that's been on
031our >> I almost drove off the road because the first time I went by one, I wanted to see what politician was on the other side [laughter] and it was like, no, somebody actually just did a nice message." >> Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. No politicians involved. >> No, it was great. >> Yeah. >> It'd be cool to pepper our community with them. So, I love it. >> We're glad. We're glad that you and Mrs. Thurs, we may put you in touch with the high school. I I was just kind of looking at Mrs. Johnson and Mr. Bulki. I don't know if we want to put them on the spot. What's that? >> Oh, don't say anything yet. >> All right. Well, we may have an option at the high school coming where >> Yeah. where we
032can print those in house. >> So, we didn't >> Yeah. Cute pictures, too. >> Yeah. Awesome. >> Thank you. Very cool. You bet. All right, Mrs. Marsh. Marsh. >> Hello. Thanks for having us. Um, I'm Amy Marsh. I think I know most of you here, but for those I don't. I'm an occupational therapist with the school district, one of two. Um, I work in just about every building that we have. So when we moved 4K and early childhood to Hilltop this year with the addition um we had some limitations on our playground and I think one of our biggest as an OT one of my biggest um pushes is to make sure that we have inclusivity on our playground. You know, playgrounds are huge for social emotional learning and any kind of like socialization and
033play for um our regular ed peers, but also our special ed peers. So, when we brought such a huge number of special ed children to Hilltop, we really needed to expand what we were offering. So I did a grant for a sensory inclusive um tunnel which is part we are starting this is our an initial part of the playground that we are doing. So the purpose of it is just to provide an environment that all kids can play on. So from our littles, bigger kids, special needs, not special needs to provide um opportunities for all of the you know self-regulation, social emotional learning and everything that they need. So it's been really well used. Um the kids love it and we've been really happy with it so far. So we'll look to expand that in
034the future. >> Awesome. >> Any questions? >> I see on the side of it there. Do you want to talk about that for just a second? >> All of the different panels. Yeah. So, all of the different when we talk about um sensory smart, we we're talking about um different experiences that kids can interact with to provide different input to their sensory system. So, there's tactile panels that are different different textures and touches. There's auditory panels that provide different sounds to kids. Um there's see-through panels so kids can interact from inside to outside. So, we have some visual stimulation that way. Um you can access on this specific tunnel. you can access from the inside and the outside. It's also a really great um tunnel for gross motor development. Um it's very close to the
035ground, so kids, even if we have kids that are wheelchair bound um or kids with any kind of orthopedic or any kind of impairment at the time, they can access that and and get in and out of it with their peers. So, it's a really nice piece of equipment. So, we do have like on on Hilltop's Playground when it was redone, there is some nice smaller things for our younger kids, but um it's really limited for when we have kids with disabilities. So, this is just a very nice addition to that. >> Absolutely. >> Very cool. >> Any questions? Yeah. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. All right. [clears throat] Next, we will move into the Rice Lake Middle School course description guide. This is the second reading. I'm not aware of any changes or
036anything from the first reading. So, with that, I would entertain a motion to approve that. >> Moved. >> Motion has been made. Is there a second? >> Yes, sir. Motion has been made and seconded. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. And that course description guide book has been approved. Next is the high school 2627 course description guide. And again, I don't believe there's any changes from the first reading. So I would entertain a motion to approve that guide. >> So moved. Second. >> Has been made and seconded. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. >> Opposed. And that one has been approved as well. [clears throat] So now we get into the finance committee meeting update. Doug, >> yes, we
037met on Thursday, December 4th at 3:30. All members were present. Statement of notice was given. Approved the minutes. Uh we discussed the beginning discussion with regards to uh the use of district facilities with the city of Rice Lake. Um we've had multiple agreements over the years and well we just need to look at getting that updated and and come to a new agreement as it's been a while since uh we uh completed the last one. Uh we looked at a network addition for our health insurance plan um and discussed potential changes uh with regards to that. We talked about the 2627 budget um and looked for some options to uh reduce the budget deficit. um talked about OPED and the current and discussing the current language as it's currently presented and maybe looking at future
038changes. We reviewed and approved the bills and set our next next date for Wednesday, January 7th at 3:30. Any questions? >> Very efficient. >> It's very [clears throat] efficient night. >> All right. Thank you for that update, Doug. Next we have the policy and legislative advocacy committee meeting update. We have the first reading for policies 342.41 along with the rule exhibit one and two 34 and 5. [clears throat] Um and then policy 342.5 with the rule. Policy 343.3 um with the rule. Policy 352.2 two with two exhibits. And this is a first reading. So if you have any questions on any of those, any comments, please let Randy or I know and we'll take that back to the committee. Otherwise, this will be coming these will be coming back for a second reading at our
039next uh at our next meeting. Any questions? All right. Next we have going to the information section our communications and public relations committee meeting minutes from December 2nd. Those were uh in our packet. Bert, you got anything you want to highlight? >> Yeah, just to highlight the meeting. Uh the middle school leadership team gave a report and talk about um starting an academic recognition task force. They talked about the middle school play attendance in the high school. We heard a lot, at least I heard a lot downtown about how good Mama Mia was. >> Yeah. >> And also discuss reset with a standardbased grading. High school leadership team, they discuss parent teacher conferences and maybe because of attendance, there might be some options out there that they can look at. >> [gasps] >> They got
040a group looking now and uh seeing if there's some different things that they can do to improve that. And they did have some recent business tours and uh conservancy visits. [clears throat] Uh they have a thing going called warrior buddies up to 20 students, high school students visiting and working with other schools. Tanner and Hoggins leadership team, parent teachers conference, midwinner math and literacy screening, PBIS award reward lunch with a mystery guest. never did see what the mystery guest was. Then we talked about district communications update uh with Aaron Johnston, different things that have happened uh throughout the the well I guess I would say the first semester since summer what has been live stream what have been partnerships and what we've done with the chronotype or what we're going to be doing with exchange
041students. Uh then there was internal and external public relation uh wins and opportunities and uh we looked at ways our community could be informed uh about some of our larger facility projects that are taking place right now. And there's quite a discussion on athletics and an event calendar which kind of doesn't exist other than online. And uh, of course, I brought up right away that I hang around with a lot of old folks and they don't go to the computer and they keep asking me if there's any kind of copy of what the schedules are going to be and and thanks to Bethany Lutheran, they came out with one and we're going to have a few people look at that. So that uh we do have a hard copy much to the demise of people
042who really follow that computer. Anyway, [clears throat] uh and we got to make sure our communication is accurate and we give some of those exterior folks uh the right dates and everything and Erin said she would, you know, try to help with that. Next meeting is January 27th and that was it. All right. >> Yeah. Y it >> nice. All right. Thank you for that update. Next school drill evaluation from the Rice Lake High School. >> Yeah, just uh part of the part of the information that Colleen I think after tonight we'll submit and do her year-end submission uh to the Department of Justice, but this one is just from uh Rice Lakeake High School and uh doing a whole drill and going through our protocols. Um we follow the I love you guys protocols
043and uh yeah just the the different things happening there and they do an evaluation of that look at what went well u maybe areas where they can make improvements and all of that's going to go to u department of justice later this week. >> Any questions? >> Is that a federal program or state >> state program? Yep. And so we have to um you know like when you approve our safety plans or periodically uh we have to bring these in front of you as a board as well. Um yeah that's part of the part of the state of Wisconsin. You bet. >> Any other questions? All right then we'll move on to the WSB public policy correspondent update. Phil. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh before I forget it because I've never remembered it once in
044the past. I think the next video update at noon is a week from Wednesday, so it's usually worthwhile. Um, [clears throat] veto uh the governor, Governor Ivers received a number of bills to sign or veto and he vetoed a number of uh bills related to um or of interest to school districts. He vetoed the bill that was passed to give guaranteed good access to high schools by military recruiters. And I think that was on the basis of uh local control. He said he vetoed the bill that would require institutions of higher learning to compile outcome data which could be used by high school career guidance counselors. In other words, how much does an education cost and how much good does it do a student by compiling that debt? And um I don't remember what his
045reasoning was. I think he said they were already burdened enough with red tape or something like that. and he vetoed the bill that would expand qualifying teacher prep programs to include uh full days of a full summer school schedule instead of one regular semester of student teaching on the basis that that would be watering down qualifications a little bit. Um, [clears throat] then federalwise, uh, you guys probably know as much as I do, but again, I think I mentioned last time the Department of Education is shifting some school funding to other departments, but is still going to cooperate some in the oversight. Um the reason this is becoming more important is that apparently nine of the or three of the 12 appropriations bills were addressed in the uh at the end of the government shutdown
046and nine need to be addressed by the end of January. So there will be a lot of drama connected with that. But um sounds like they've been working on a uh consensus health, human services, and education spending bill. So maybe at least that won't be an area of controversy. Some of the funding that's been reassigned for instance is office of elementary and secondary education transferred to the labor department and that involves some of the a title one through five uh funding that I think addresses lower income students. The office of post-secary educationbased institutional grants goes to the labor department. Indian education goes to the interior department. onampus child support care for parents in college and foreign medical accreditation goes to DHS and international education and foreign language programs goes to the state department. So all
047of that seems to make some sense. So we'll see how it works out but that is my report. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. Any questions? If not, the upcoming meeting schedule on Wednesday, December 17th is the WSB legal and legislative video update. That webinar does not require a registration, so you can just tune in for that. The schoolboard convention January 20th through the 23rd and then uh February 19th, um Thursday, there is a WSB uh school uh conference. So, if you can attend that, please let Colleen know and she will get you registered for that. That is the upcoming meeting schedule for tonight. Next, we get to hear from our high school students. >> Kevin, just want to mention too, the resolutions that are going to be addressed down at WASBY for which
048you're a delegate. I think they're online and the ones that >> there are number that WASBY recommends or not WASBY but there I guess it is. Yeah, the school board, whoever the committee, >> the committee, >> um they there are a number that are recommended uh for discussion. There are some that are recommended to be turned down and I recommend you all take a look at that. >> We will be having that on our agenda for our January meeting because we'll have a hard copy by then. >> Okay. So, that will be before >> that first meeting in January. We have a discussion on those. Anybody that wants to uh bring a point of interest up, >> Kevin enjoys that. You just can't pry him out of there to go to supper at all. >>
049No. >> All right. Welcome. >> Uh, hello. I'm Porter Corbin, the junior class representative. >> Hello. I was here last time. My name is Hugo Asavdo Sanchez and I'm the sophomore class rep. It's kind of just a look at our outline. a little short this week, but not too many new things at the high school. >> Um, first up, we have holiday week. Uh, that's in two weeks, I believe. And so, first of all, we have our home room home room hallway decorating competition, which we're going to start decorating next week during home room, which is on Monday. Um, our junior class, at least I know, has already started planning ours. Not going to reveal any secrets, [laughter] but it's going to be pretty good. Uh, that week we also have dress up days. Uh,
050PJ day is Monday. Uh, Tuesday is red and green day. Wednesday is dress as winter sports. Thursday is Christmas character/mov. And Friday is you dress in your ugly sweaters. Uh that same Friday we will have a Friday activity that you can choose. Um the first one is the open gym which you just go down there and play or uh then we have the Christmas movie in the auditorium. Um and arts and crafts and library study hall. Um, last year we didn't know they they weren't as popular as the others, but we did find that it was good for kids that maybe aren't as socially I don't know. Yeah. So, [laughter] >> just a little winter sport recap for boys hockey. They had an away game at Oaklair Memorial December 4th and 3 loss. And tomorrow
051night they actually have their first home game versus Amory Co-op. And then for girls basketball, they had an away game versus Stevens Point, uh 6074 loss there. And their first home game versus New Richmond December 5th, win. And then tomorrow night they actually have their double header coaches versus cancer game versus Cameron at 5:45 I believe. >> And then for boys basketball they had their away game at Oyola December 4th 29 to 57 loss. So and then they also like I just said their double header tomorrow night versus New Richmond at 7:15. And then this past weekend, there was a girls varsity invitational at Medford and they placed third team overall. And then upcoming for boys swim and dive, they have a home varsity meet versus River Falls December 11th. Um, finally, we have some
052small things we've done in the past weeks. Uh we had apple cider during our resource period and we've been doing music during lunch every Friday which they've enjoyed. Um this week we're we're going to do a 15 seconds of fame which we'll have a keyboard in the lunchroom area and if they'd like to come and play they can. Um we'll also be doing high five Friday. So, we'll have teachers station that are secretly picked to be the secret high five givers, I guess. And the 10th person to high-five each person will get a prize. Um, we are also planning to put candy canes on the cars in the student parking lot and distribute hot chocolate. >> Quick question. Will there be any staff members or board members that want 15 seconds of fame on the
053Not I >> Well, [laughter] if they'd like to come up. >> Yeah. Right. >> Who gets to pick the music at lunch? >> Um student uh leadership members. >> Okay. >> But if they if the body like a request, they're more than welcome to. >> So, Porter, what extremely cold activity did you participate in last Thursday evening? uh the the Christmas parade. >> Porter's one of the young ambassadors for the chamber and seven of the students really got cold, but they did a heck of a good job. >> Yeah. Heard we got some compliments on our singing. >> You did. You did. >> All right. Any questions? Thank you. >> Good job. >> Right. Upcoming district events, Randy. >> Yeah, just a few things. Tonight at 7:00 in 10 minutes, we've got uh the Rice
054Lake High School band winter concert winter concert in the auditorium. Um as these gentlemen said, tomorrow night, coaches versus cancer uh tomorrow night at the high school. Um also tomorrow, uh we've got the Tainter Elementary winter concerts at 6:00 and 7:00 p.m. in the auditorium. And then on Thursday are the Hogan and Hilltop Elementary winter concerts at 4:45, 5:45, and 6:45 in the high school auditorium. Um, just a reminder and and we'll do um a press release on this as well and send an all school uh message out to uh parents um and others. There'll be that emergency services training at the Rice Lake Middle School on Monday, December 22nd from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. So, I don't know exactly what's going to happen. I don't know if Mrs. Leaf, Mr. to but I assume
055there's going to be lots of emergency vehicles and [clears throat] um other things around. So, uh we just want to give people [snorts and clears throat] a heads up on that. And then winter break for students and most staff December 22nd through January 2nd and school resumes on Monday the 5th. And as always, please continue to check our social media for a great number of things happening in the district. >> All right. Thank you for that. Now I would entertain a motion to convene into close session pursuant to Wisconsin statutes 19.851C and this is for the approval of our close session meeting minutes from Monday, November 24th. >> I would move to go to closed. >> Motion has made and seconded. Roll call, please. >> Don Kusky, >> yes. >> Andrew Coupe, >> yes. >>
056Phil Henl, >> here. >> Kevin Jensen, >> yes. >> Marian Barbara, >> yes. >> Bert Richard, >> yes. >> Nelly Sher, >> yes. >> Doug Kuchko, >> yes. >> And Lori Zarbach, >> yes. >> All right. All right. >> So, before we go into officially the pose, we're going to do our quick little video for our tidbit. So, >> we have a song.