001[Music] Mics are going live. Miriam, can you hear us? Uh, we can't. Are you muted by chance? [Music] Um, just a minute. Are you doing it on purpose, Randy? She doesn't hear us. That was cooked. Yeah. Miam. I think it's What's the middle right there? That little popup that comes up where? Move your cursor. See that middle? If I was I can hear you guys. We couldn't we couldn't hear you for a minute. Oh, sorry. Got good back feed now. Oh, no. All right. There we go. All right. It is 6 o'clock. We will call the Monday, June 23rd regular board meeting to order. Roll call, please. Sorry. Kevin Jensen here. Miriam Vra. All right. Bert Richard here. Nelly Sher here. Doug Kuchko here. Lorie Zarbach. Don Kusky here. Andrew Coupe here. And Phil Hankl
002here. And when Randy was a proper notice given for this meeting? Yes. Please be advised that public notice of this meeting is required by sections 19.84 and 65.90. The Wisconsin statutes has been properly given. Such notice consisted of a notice and agenda to the official newspaper the right side chroner type to the Oaklair leader and 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. A proper notice was given for this meeting. We will now stand for the 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. All right. So, our first accommodations, we will uh present
003two out of the three Chromebooks. Our third student uh works second shift, so she was not able to be here this evening. Uh she received hers earlier today up at the high school office. I can show you quickly. That was a picture today from the high school office thanks to Mr. Pokei. So Amy got hers earlier today. All right. And Mr. Dross, can you uh I'm going to walk up to the podium, but can you announce the uh two ladies that have joined us? So our other two uh winners, lucky winners this year were Briella Campbell and Maya Davis. So ladies, if you want to come on up to Mr. Jensen and he'll present you with your Chromebook, we [Applause] So here, just wait. We're going to take a picture. You want to look that
004way and then Yeah. And then maybe turn towards mom. She wants one, too. All right. Congratulations. Congrats. [Applause] Next we have our fourth term outstanding student achievement awards Mr. Bicey let them go after we get done with this. Good evening. Good evening everybody. Mark Biscy, assistant principal from the high school. And today I'm going to recognize 18 students that that achieved uh fourthterm outstanding student awards for our department. And I think one note I want to make is that our first term and our fourth term at the high school mean the same thing. I know that when we get to fourth term, everybody's ready for summer and whatnot, but really the high school kids, they got to earn that credit and stuff. So for these students that really gave it all right to the end,
005um they should also be recognized for that. So, our art department has two students. Uh, Cecilia Nelson, student of Dan and Pam Nelson, and then Julia Thompson, student of Amy and John Thompson. For our health education area, we have one student, Desany Amos, student of Steve and Jenny Amos. Business education, Weston Flood, student of Dr. Dennis Flood, and Kate Flood. Family and consumer science, Kaden Walke, student of Brian and Kimberly Walke. In our language arts ELA area, we have two students, Lauren Wymer, student of Dan and Jesse Wymer, and Marin Danzy, student of Carrie and Jacob Danzi. Mathematics, two students, Sophia Winfield, who is a student of Sarah Brandham and Russell Winfield. We also have Delena Bowen, student of Corey Bowen and Roaney Don and Leah Fondel and Nick Erns. Music education, Evelyn Eastston, student
006of Lenoma and Ron Eastston. For fed, Stella Leaf, student of Laura, Laura and Mark Leaf. Lori and Mark Leaf, excuse me. For science, Lee Sunberg Nitec, student of Joan G and Steve Meyer. Social studies, we have two students, Remy Gibson, student of Heather and Brian Gibson. We also have Brie Barona, student of Jordan and Sarah Barona. In world languages, Carter Cuchko, student of Shane and Tora Cuchko. Agriculture student Carter Zimmerman who is the student of Scott and Whitney Zimmerman. For technology technology education, Henry Baker, student of Shane and Nicole Baker. And last but not least, our WOW program recipient is Roslin Cromry, student of Barb and Dan Cromry and Melissa Cromry Howard. And again, these students are chosen for their cooperation, effort, attitude, and dedication to the individual discipline. So, congrats to all 18 of
007those students. and we wish them a great summer. [Applause] Congratulations to all of our students that were recognized this evening and you guys uh head out. Thank you. Congratulations. All right. Be off it at by 9. All right. No appearances this evening. So we'll move on to the approval of the regular session meeting minutes from June 9th. Do I have a motion to approve to approve the minutes as presented? Motion has been approved. Ah 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. Opposed. The minutes have been approved. the consent agenda. We have one employment resignation. We have eight employment recommendations, adding three more lifeguards to our uh fleet of lifeguards up at the new pool
008and then the membership renewal to the 2526 WIAA. Uh with that, I would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. I'll move to approve the consent agenda. 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. Opposed. And the consent agenda has been approved. Next, we have our report section. We'll start off with the 2526 Rice Lake Area School District preliminary budget. This is an action item. Colleen, we have like a super max amount of action items tonight. So, just keep track of all the motions and the seconds, will you? Got to do your job tonight, huh? I know. Yeah. It's like serious business. How about if we just have the same people do the first
009and the second. Yeah. Nice easy for her. Yeah. Casting it in on his ballot. So, you'll have two handouts there. uh one is the one that was in your board packet and then the other one is kind of summarizing the fund 10 changes from last year's budget. So as you can see fund 10 as of now it is a preliminary budget. We still have some unknowns yet. The state budget is not done. Uh frankly with the federal changes to Medicaid could affect us too but um so fund 10 as of now is a million 82,000 in the hole. Um, as I said, the other page kind of shows your differences from last year's budget to this year's budget to kind of show you the the changes. Um, you can look through there. I don't think
010I need to read it to you. If you would have any questions, I can take any questions that you have. I guess I will point out the expected raises of the 650. Some of that is fund 27. So basically our instead of fund 10 going up, our fund 27 will go up. Our transfer to fund 10 will have to go up or our transfer from fund 10 to 27 will have to go up to cover the 650. So Victor, can you remind them what fund 27? Yeah, sorry. Fund 27 is a special ed fund. So last year budget, I think the transfer was like 3.5 million. Next year it's projected at 3.7 million. So, um, guess if anybody has any questions, I can take those or not. Any questions? So, that's a little better than
011we thought, isn't it? Yeah, it was kind of down the middle from what we talked at finance. Um, higher than that, higher than Ry's number, lower than my number. I went through Friday and Saturday and got it all balanced out. So, um, and some of it's coming from last year that we're Yeah. So, we're sorry, I should So, we're pulling 850 ahead from last year. So, essentially, we had 850 in the deficit last year. So, we're adding another 233,000 to the deficit just for the taxpayers. So, just and once the audit is complete uh this summer and and that'll come to you as as a board as well, we'll find out exactly where that 850 was. We're hoping that will definitely be better. Uh Miriam Miriam had asked a question about that at the last
012meeting where hopefully that's you know 500 instead of 850 but we'll find out for sure. So that 850 is only fun 10. We did had the the turfield and the conservancy. So the the budget was 1.7 million the deficit was but way 850 is operational. the rest of his facilities improvements. Just to point that out, because it will be around 1.7 million. Um the debt service fund, you can see they're in a deficit. Um we have money in our debt service fund, so we're using some of that to make the payments next year. And then fund 50 is your food service fund and fund 80 is the community service fund. Um as you know, the pool's done. It roughly is about a million dollars under the original budget. So we did it came out well
013I would say um and they're starting the community service community community service building starting now. So um that's going so that's all part of fund 80 just for community again we saved a million on the pool but we don't get to use that in exactly our operating budget. Yeah it saves our lease payments going forward put it that way. So yes any other questions or comments? Questions. All right. This is an action item. So I would entertain a motion to approve the 2526 preliminary budget. Move to approve the budget as presented. I'll second that. Motion has been made and seconded. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Opposed. All right. That has been approved. Now we'll have Laura join us. Laura's coming up. One. Maybe you mess up.
014Mark, it's the person that's here or Mr. Everybody see it's okay. It was the wrong one to mess up. I'm glad leaf um from the Rice Lake Middle School assistant principal and athletic director. Um so this is a second reading. Um I added those two things that were suggested with electronic devices and online activity on page 26 paragraph um six. And then also the student possession andor use of tobacco, vape, ecigarettes, drugs. Um use a little bit of the high schools and then just added that in there. Um, a little paragraph on that. Uh, students are prohibited from using or possessing any products or paraphernalia that contain nicotine or other various drugs while on school grounds or at a school function. This includes but is not limited to cigarettes, vapes, ecigarettes, pipes, smokeless, tobacco, and
015related items. Violations will result in school disciplinary actions and will impact co-curricular eligibility. So, put that in there as well. Yeah, thanks for focusing it better. Yeah, looks good. Any questions, comments? the changes. All right. This is a second reading. I would entertain a motion to approve the middle school handbook. So moved. Motion has been made. Is there a second? Second. Motion has been made and second. Any further discussion? Seeing none. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Opposed. And the middle school student handbook has been approved. Next, we get into the wire connections committee appointment of the board representatives. So, I am going to recommend that Phil uh represent the board on the middle school side of that committee and Nelly with the high school of that committee. And then also as
016we discussed um some of the concerns were having that committee getting people on it that that aren't familiar with what got them there. And so I would highly recommend that those committees uh form get back together as a group that existed and then if they feel they want to add people they can do that because it's their committee. But for the time being I would say start with who you've got. and uh build it from there and try to have uh staff teachers and and staff that are running chairing those committees so that way they uh feel that they're part of it all. So with that, you made those two nominations as a motion. I would second it. I do need that. And any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I.
017I. Opposed. And those committee appointments have been approved. Next, we have the uh uh public relations committee. I'm asking to dissolve that committee as it stands. Um that committee was put in place a number of years ago uh when we were in the process of trying to uh promote our district with the new logo and and get all of that information out there to uh to our community. And um it's my recommendation that I think we can better meet the needs of our committee by having a single appointment to that committee um to the new committee that they meet. Randy and and a number of others meet monthly where that committee was meeting quarterly basically just getting updates and really wasn't part of driving that. And so this way it um we can get more
018things accomplished um and then have Bert report back to us. So I would uh entertain a motion to dissolve the public relations committee as it stands. I move to uh dissolve the public relations committee. 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. Opposed and the public relations committee board committee has been dissolved. And then uh uh renaming the district communications committee to the communications and public relations committee. That is the committee that meets regularly with with Randy. Anything you want to add to that, Randy? Uh no. Made up made up of staff members, um administrators, you know, Aaron Johnson is a part of that as well. Um and so um yeah, I think that would
019be I think that would be a good move. All right. So, with that, I would entertain a motion to uh approve the naming of that new named committee to the communications and public relations committee. Do I have a motion? We're getting burnt out on motions. Second. Motion has been made and seconded. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I opposed. All right, that motion has been approved. So then the next step then would be for that committee to have a board appointee to it. And I would uh like to appoint Bert. He was the chair of the the the uh PR committee for the district or for the board. And I would recommend him to be that representative for that committee. I would entertain a motion for that approval. I
020would move to uh nominate Bert as our board rep on the new committee. All right. Is there a second? Second. Motion has made and seconded. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. And congratulations, Bert. You are the representative. All right. Next, we get into our finance committee meeting update. Doug. Uh yes, we uh the action item on here is just from a previous meeting that we had. Uh we were looking at options for uh the bus garage had approached us with an in potential increase in rates. uh initially uh and we worked through that uh they're requesting a 4% increase which uh we feel is reasonable and in addition to that uh the outcome will still work in our favor to some degree in the fact that they've
021cut two bus routes as well. So with that I would entertain a motion to approve the 2526 bus transportation rate. Do I have a motion? Move. Second. Motion has been made and seconded. Any further discussion? Seeing none. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. And those rates have been approved. Next, the curriculum committee meeting met. Um, we met on Tuesday the 17th at 5:00. All board members were present. We started off with the end of the year achievement gap reduction report from our elementary principles and um there was some of the charts we did have added to your packet. So you could see kind of the growth that we were uh seeing. It was kind of exciting to see uh um some of those charts. Some of them we've got some some work
022to do yet and uh um got a good report back on things that they plan to do moving forward and and uh so we were very uh satisfied and with the report they did and um turned out turned out really well. So then we had the report coming back from our new high school social studies courses. This will be an action item. We've got the uh Holocaust uh studies and then modern history and 9/11. Those two courses plus the fit for life too which is a new FIED course at the high school. Those those three um we'll be looking for action to put them into our permanent rotation of classes. Is that after three years? Yes. Okay. And the reports that came back on the two history courses, the social studies courses, they uh students
023uh were were surveyed got very positive survey results. Um they were were very interested in and very uh excited about learning about those two uh parts of of our history. And uh it was a really really good report to hear back on what the what the kids were were doing and thinking they do some independent reading uh some class reading and uh really dig into and and learn about uh those items. So with that I would entertain a motion to approve those three new courses. would move to put Holocaust studies, modern history, and n of 911 and fit for life too into the I'm assuming 911 as 911. Not 911. A second. Motion has been made and seconded. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. All right, those
024classes have been approved. We then uh also heard uh about the AP site course. This was in year one. Uh Mr. Panazuk gave us an update there. There was 41 students in two sections of this class. And again very positive feedback uh on that class. And then we got year one report for AP World History. that one. Uh, this year because we had a staff member that was on leave, we used a college professor, so we were not able to offer it as an AP course, but we were able to offer it as a dual credit enrollment class. And so, the class went well, but we're excited as a committee to hear how it goes this coming year with with AP as an option as well. Could we find out what percentage of students actually
025passed the AP psych test? We didn't take it this year because we didn't have the staff member to teach it. So, the college professor could only do it as a dual enrollment credits. Hey, she's asking about AP Psych. We can get that information. It's not available yet. Well, we didn't have anybody take the test, though, did we? No. APsych, I believe we did. Yeah. Oh, that that was Oh, psych. I'm sorry. Yes, you backed up on me, Miriam. Great minds think alike, Miriam. I was going to ask the same question. So, yes, that we can get you. Yeah, I think it'd be really interesting. So, why a college professor was teaching it, why couldn't they take the test? It kind of seems backwards. Well, they just got the credit for the class. Yeah, they they
026paid paid for the credit and got the credit for the class instead of taking the AP exam. Oh, okay. Which as a parent, if I had a student that was going to take the option, I would push them the direction of the credit because then you get a B, you get a credit. with AP. If you don't do well on that test, you may not get any college credit or yeah, little. So, just kind of interesting where we're offering a lot of AP classes for college credit and colleges are offering a lot of remedial high school classes. Kind of seems backwards. It does. It does. All right. Any other questions? All right. And then we adjourned. Our next meeting is July 15th. All right. And then our policy and legislative advocacy committee meeting update. This
027is the second reading for policy 344.43. And this is the promotion and retention for third to fourth grade. This is uh one that we had to have done uh before July 1. So with that I would entertain a motion to approve that policy. I would so move. 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. Opposed. And that motion carries. And we'll move into our information section where we have the WSB public policy correspondent update. Phil. Okay. Well, I did this even though I was on vacation. We appreciate that. Take it easy on me. But I also sense that there's a hunger for more knowledge here. So, I'm going to provide a little supplemental influ becomes
028law. This comes from the Wisconsin State Legislature page. If you scroll way to the bottom, um, you get more information how a bill becomes law. And it's very much like how we develop something that pass here. Um, there are co-authors and sponsors that develop a bill. It's drafted into legal language by the legislative reference bureau. Then it's sent to the appropriate committee, say in the assembly, which is called the first reading. When they publish the bill and what they say about it, it gets passed out of the committee and it's read before the assembly by the clerk which is called the second reading and then they debate it, possibly amend it. Each amendment is considered separately and then they bring it to the floor as an amended bill to vote on the bill up and
029down. That's called the third readings. There's three readings. Then if they pass it, they send it to the Senate or it goes through a similar process. And uh if the Senate changes anything in the bill, just like with the feds, the assembly and senate have to get together and hash out an agreement to agree to the identical bill and then both houses have to vote on it. Sometimes if there are a lot of disagreements, then it goes to a conference committee which is some selected members from each house. So then the bill agreed upon by the conference gets voted up or down and if both houses pass it then it goes to the governor who signs it or vetos it. So that is the rest of the story first and we wonder why government is
030stalled. Yeah. Right. It's very it's it's intended to be that way, you know. Um, capital chat, which is the legislative update, both federal and Wisconsin items. That was from the 20th. Um budget talks as far as we know between the legislature and governor uh are not ongoing although they broke down but not acrimoniously. They all kind of said nice things about each other. Um before I take a breather can you help me get back to my apartment? Sure. You got your phone or Yep. Got it. Thank you. Um, okay. The joint finance committee also was scheduled to vote on several items. They vote on smaller items first. Is it okay to go on or not? Yes, you bet. You're good. Um, and the UW and because of the impass and the talks with the governor,
031they canled those votes. So, they haven't gotten around they haven't gotten any closer to voting on K12 funding, which is the last one because it's the largest item. It appears that the Senate and the House have somewhat of a disagreement upon the level of spending. Um, so we'll see what happens there. And and just a reminder, if nothing is passed, uh, funding continues at the same level as last year. So, uh, bills, there are there are some bills that they noted as being of interest to, uh, K12 people. The Milwaukee voucher system has was planned as a system that would gradually move to general purpose revenues and off the property tax. And that's going to be complete in the next couple of years. and they're considering a plan to fund vouchers in general from general
032revenues and not the property tax and and the WASBY people went into the pluses and minuses of that and there are pros and cons to that. Um June 10th, joint finance committee met to consider uh youth apprenticeships and they approved the $6 million increase in funding of youth apprenticeships over two years which was less than what Governor Iver proposed but 6 million nevertheless. Uh the next two bills have been batted around for a while. Uh, Senate bill allows military recruiters meaningful access to schools or mandates that because apparently they they must be shoving them into a closet in various schools. And another bill would create a new school safety program through the Office of School Safety. And then there's the uh bill that would allow small schools to designate their state scholarship candidate if there
033were less than 80 people in the school. I mentioned that several times about time you guys remember it. Um, the governor signed one bill uh to delay implementation of an act which would switch where you have to file camp which which would switch where local candidates like us have to file their campaign finance filings from the local clerk who is looking at us from the screen to the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. and uh because of a a concern about the propriety of doing that too fast or something like that, they decided to delay the implementation to December of 2027. The federal level, of course, there explosive things going on. Um there are proposed cuts in the Department of Education funding from 79 billion to 67 billion, consolidate several programs, some decreases in Medicaid and school lunch
034funding proposed as as uh I think um Victor had mentioned. They are proposing merging 18 existing K12 programs into a single um K12 simplified funding program uh with less funding uh about $2 billion and they're going to shuffle around how things are done. There's an agreement with the Department of Education that the Department of Labor would administer funding for career and tech education uh to smooth out the funding for apprenticeships and uh uh handle the regulations and things and and an agreement between the Department of Education and Treasury to help administer student loans. That's it. Thank you. All right. Any questions? Thank you for that update. uh upcoming meeting schedule. We've got four. Just a second. I I do want to mention that all is available. It's all taken from um wasby.org uh under the
035legislative update link. That is a summary, believe it or not. And with that, you'll see in our board packet going forward, Phil's going to have those links available ahead of time in our packet so we can with a quiz. off cruise. That's right. Like it. So, our upcoming meeting meeting schedule, we've got four different webinars between the 27th of June and the 20th of August. The other item on the upcoming meeting schedule I'm not real crazy about announcing, but I guess I probably better so we can start planning. And that is the back back to school uh day on Monday, August 18th. starts at 7:30 for the breakfast and then the program starts at 8 o'clock at the high school auditorium and lobby. So if you can attend the back to school all staff inservice
036morning, please let Colleen know and she can get you and we want we want to hear the administrator's updated stories and tales from the summer. That's right. All right. The list is already going with with that. We will uh hear from our district administrator on upcoming district events. Yeah. And some of these are going on now. But um so we have got Rice Lakeake High School students are on a trip to Guatemala and if you want to if you have access to Facebook, check out our Facebook page. Uh there's almost daily updates uh from them. So it's uh exciting and and they'll come back and talk about that at some point as well. Um as well you can see pictures from summer academy. And so um just a reminder to to listeners and viewers that
037we changed that this year and the first session was uh last week and this week that ends this Thursday and then our next session is July 28th through August 7th. Uh Courtney FS pool manager report reported that the pool was quote packed over the weekend. Uh so too hot to be outside maybe. So people were inside enjoying the water and the school calendar is on the website as well. I sent out an all district email uh to parents and staff members last week, but just a reminder to anybody viewing or listening uh that school calendar for 2526 is on the website. Thank you. Thank you for that update. Next, I would entertain a motion to convene into close session pursuant to Wisconsin statutes 19.851E and 19.851 C. That is for individual employee contracts and employee
038leave of absent request. Move to go to closed. Motion has been made. Is there a second? Second. Motion has been made and seconded. Roll call, please. Okay. Miam, I see she jumped off. Bert Richard, yes. Nelly Shy, yes. Doug Kuchko, yes. Lorie Zarbach, not Don Kusky? Yes. Andrew Coupe? Yes. Phil Hankle? Yes. And Kevin Johnson? Yes. All right, we're headed to closed. baby. Yeah.