001e e for [Music] we're streaming and recording and mics are live okay yes all right it is 6 o'clock I will call the regular Monday March 24th board meeting to order roll call please Andrew CP here Phil hle here Kevin Jensen here Miriam VRA here Bert Richard here Nelly shy here Doug kochko Diane ker here Don kusky here and was a proper notice given for this meeting yes please be please be advised that public notice of this meeting as required by sections 19.84% such notice was given 24 more than 24 hours prior to the meeting thank you a proper notice was given for this meeting we'll now stand for the [Music] pledge I pledge alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under
002God indivisible with liy and justice for all all right we will get started with with our student recognition it's always a enjoyable time to uh see some of our students and get recognized for all their hard work we got a little spot between Mr DST and Mr hankle for parents grandparents to get video and pictures um and with that we will start with the Rice Lake High [Music] School good evening Martha you want to come on up Kuli principal at Rice Lake High School and I have the privilege to honor Martha Blake this evening she's a junior at Rice Lake High School and she likes to be in front of people right now I guess um she is the second time she's been up here she told me she up here over the elementary period
003so what an outstanding achievement to be the second um chance Mr bisy Mr kski and I uh selecting Martha for leadership citizenship and perseverance Martha is a quiet leader she leads by example Martha has had a tremendous success at Rice Lake High School and she has almost met uh her graduation requirements as she begins to close out her junior year I know next year she is planning to take classes at Northwoods Technical College and is interested in the Child Care Program in speaking with their teachers they talk about Martha's amazing growth this year especially in Ceramics they compliment her for her great effort and creativity furthermore Martha gets along with her peers and is always respectful and willing to help if needed all her teachers talk about how much they enjoy having her in class
004and I know she'll be successful in her next Endeavor thank [Applause] you we got fabulous [Laughter] prizes you yeah picture you get one right yeah oh congratulations on being a two-time recipient all right next we have the Rice Lake Middle School have a lot of willing participants hello uh my name is Ally cich and I am so happy to be here um on behalf of the seventh grade teachers at Rice Lake Middle School we would like to recognize James Simkins for his leadership kindness and academic Excellence throughout the school year James consistently demonstrates the Warrior Way by being safe responsible and respectful in our school without a doubt having him in the classroom elevates The Learning Experience for all students as he demonstrates continuous hard work and determinate determination each and every day during class
005James is always focused and he asks great questions furthermore James has the Integrity to do the right thing even when no one is watching he truly leads by example his strong character and growth mindset are unmatched his kind and friendly personality makes everybody smile James is wonderful and makes our Rice Lake Middle School a great place for both students and staff congratulations to James and his family [Applause] I love his hair this cool [Applause] hair Hilltop Elementary hello my name is BR salquist and I am a long-term substitute at Hilltop Elementary in second grade the second grade team and I have nominated Payton sword doall because of her academic excellence and Leadership Payton always has a positive attitude and shows kindness to her fellow classmates pton comes to school ready to learn with a smile
006on her face every day and always puts forth full effort in everything she does and that's why we've nominated her today what a great smile I know good smile tainter element want you come on hi my name is Chad Gibson I'm the second grade teacher at Tanger Elementary and I'm here to recognize Jay Healey is our student of recognition this month uh in the areas of academic Excellence leadership and citizenship uh and Jay comes to school each day ready with a positive attitude our second grade teachers recognize Jay's continued modeling of the Warrior Way behaviors throughout the school day he can often be found working hard on his classroom lessons uh he's a good partner in activities he often provides leadership and direction to groups he works within and I'm proud to have Jay as
007our student of the month in the classroom and I'm excited to provide this recognition for him and his family just serious he looks really exciting and Hogan [Music] Elementary yeah on uh I'm Barb kinnick and I'm the second grade teacher at Hogan Elementary um and this is Ember it is an absolute pleasure to have ember in class as a student she sets an example for her peers to follow by her genuine kindness and positive attitude Ember is thoughtful and polite and treats all her classmates and adults she encounters with the utmost respect Ember is to be commended for putting forth her best effort daily and consistently following the Warrior Way Ember comes to school each day with a smile on her face and is excited to learn she is always willing to try her best
008and to work hard she is a she is conscientious of her work and will'll occasionally ask am I a good student and to which I always reply absolutely her positive attitude and her energy is greatly appreciated M's positive attitude enthusiasm cheerfulness and personality make her a delight to have in the classroom it is these qualities that contribute to a positive uh learning environment keep up the Fantastic work Amber have any more people [Music] [Applause] okay got it all right congratulations to all of our students that recognized this evening your names will be going into a drawing and at the end of the school year your names along with other winners uh that have been recognized um will be in the drawing for a couple Chromebooks so good luck to win a Chromebook so at this
009time we'll take a brief moment for anybody that would like to leave you're welcome to stay but we will take a brief moment for you guys to leave no hell have a good night I know how to clear room ice cream ice cream sure do all right we do not have any appearances so we will move on then to the approval of our regular session meeting minutes for Monday February 24th so moved motion has been made as there a second second second motion has been made and seconded any further discussion see none all in favor signify by saying I I opposed and that motion to approve those minutes have been approved next we have our consent agenda where we have our monthly budget and cash reconciliation report our board bills we have um oops we
010have three employment resignations and four employment recommendations we have one change Megan Kennedy for the employment recommendation has pulled her name off from an assistant track coach so we'll just have the four other names there and with that change I would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda second motion has been made and seconded is there any further discussion see none all in favor signify by saying I I I oppos and the consent agenda has been approved next we will get into our report section we'll start off with the Big River student leadership Workshop Mr Shel you guys got to move that hello everybody um my name is Mr Shel I'm a high school science teacher here in Rice Lake and the adviser of the warrior leadership team um just to give you a
011little backstory before some of the students here talk we were able to uh well the principles of the big Rivers have a uh I'm sure multiple meetings every year but they got together down in chipa Falls um and we were able to join them um which I think each School brought four or five students um from their leadership or student council groups and so we chose a couple of our class advisers and were're able to join Mr pooki um and some of the other students and staff down in chipa Falls so just a couple of things I wanted to say before giving the students a chance here too is uh I just feel very thankful that we were able to do this thankful to obvious VI L Mr Bok our Administration and you guys um
012this was really beneficial for our group and um just from speaking to some of the other staff and staff that have taught at multiple districts this is just something that doesn't happen very often so I just wanted to an you know bring recognition to that and also um you know the timing of this we we did we were able to meet for I think three or four hours and uh it flew by so we although we we got a lot of information it it wasn't you know a huge amount of time so hopefully we can do it again because we got a lot out of it so I just wanted to say I'm very grateful for being able to go there I know I'm grateful for having these kids with me and um I'll let
013these guys kind of take it away so thank you I'm H junior class representative Daniel broker and just a little bit of an outline about this uh event of course we have uh a lot of pictures uh the attendees uh those uh amongst us here there was another one another sophomore unable to make it today but they were uh all student representatives and uh one of the things that's proposed I know we'll go more in depth on it shortly is uh the the can the BRC which is uh uh a it's a big collaboration it's a food drive uh and I know we'll go a little more in depth about it uh shortly but there was also a very good idea for a lot of these schools that do different things some of them larger
014some of them uh such as as our district maybe a little bit smaller than the others but able to see what was working for all of kind of their the student councils uh or their uh their kind of equivalent to that and we were really uh there was a lot of enlightening ideas there was a lot of uh strategies events put on that some of these schools do that uh we think would work well human rights like and we think are really good ideas uh and and student leaders also uh being able so the student leaders and the teachers advisors all kind of able amongst themselves to be able to share those uh ideas there and uh some of the stuff though that Royal leadership team specifically has upcoming uh aside from this uh is
015the community blood drive which is actually this Wednesday uh that is earlier in the year we had one that was open for students this one is open for the community and we still have signup slots available for that and also having kind of a rewards trip for uh the warrior leadership team to a home game for the Timberwolves uh against Pistons so that should be fun but again here uh some of the schools in attendance just noting right like monom River Falls Hudson chip Falls and New Richmond so most of the big Rivers conference there uh each sending you know I think everybody pretty much sent uh for except for chip or Falls uh who is the host of it so a lot of uh a lot of the leaders in these schools being able
016to to kind of work together collaborate talk about what happened uh what's working what's uh what maybe could be changed and then also the principles able to again have have time to network and to uh trly talk about that and the directors of student council um I'm Miranda Garcia Rodriguez also a junior class rep um and I'll be talking a little bit about the can the RC fundraiser that we have coming up while we were in chipa like discussing different ideas um somebody mentioned a fundraiser with all the BRC and they called it the can the BRC and the schools involved with that are monomon Hudson Triple Falls rare Falls New Richmond and of course us Rice Lake and basically canwc boils down to it's going to be like each all of the schools are
017going to be competing to see who can get the most canned goods for um a food pantry of our of their choice and it's going to be running from March 31st to April 11th our chosen food pantry was Methodist Church and sisters's food pantry and there's going to be daily results like of the different schools and um posted on the Instagram by um the monomin student council it's going to be at the BRC that's where the all the different updates are going to be this is M what what was the day of that can goods drive again uh March 31st April 11 okay thanks so I think our idea with that was to do one of the different pantries for each of the weeks so two weeks of school throw there um just a couple
018of the takeaways obviously the principal's got to meet and then the advisor got to meet at a separate table so we were kind of hanging out with the students for a little bit overhearing them but we also got to separate ourselves so the these were some takeaways that I had uh before I go into them again I think we are doing a lot of really good things at Rice Lake right now just hearing from the other schools I think we're in a really good spot um and I think the students um also commented on that on the way back too so just some logistical things that I got from other schools was like potentially bringing back the class officer roles um it we got rid of it a couple of years ago when student council
019kind of dissolved and we um adopted this Warrior leadership team idea I think it would do a number of things like organizing things it would incentivize students to kind of campaign and um you know it would give more people other than me I guess student L roles and that would be huge for our student body to kind of look up to especially freshman sophomores kind of seeing what these Junior seniors um do in those roles so um the second thing was a point system I really like this uh a lot of the schools actually did this and it was just a way to track attendance at meetings and events and um right now we're doing something similar just with check marks but I like the point total and if they they have a certain point
020total by semester they need to hit so the students know if they're behind like they played football now they got to get uh caught up before semester ends so it's a good way of organizing it and keeping everybody accountable so that they're they're all attending the same amount of things um and then the last thing here was just routine bi-weekly meetings the students talked about this and this would allow you know just more organization the students know when the meeting is every week what time it is and where the location is so um three of the just takeaways that I got as an adviser talking with other ones hi everyone I'm sopia Winfield and I'm a sophomore class rep and so when we were at the collaboration we split off for about like 20 minutes
021and just talked to other students from uh the other schools and some of the ideas that stuck out to us that we heard about was the teacher of the month idea which was pretty much we would send out a survey every month month to all students that they would just like fill out in the home room and it would be based off of a trait like anything that a teacher could be I don't know I can't think of one right now and then they would vote what teacher they think best fits that description and that teacher would earn like teacher of the month so kind of like how we do student of the month but teacher of the month and also the school store which we used to have but we don't anymore other schools
022had that where they like sponsor a drink so like the money will go towards some sort of like fundraiser for the school if you buy the certain drink and it'll be like at a discounted price for like a day or week and Candy Gams around Valentine's Day we've done like flowers like roses or carnations but it gets a bit pricey and people don't like tend to buy them we never really sell out so we thought that maybe candy Gams would be a better idea because parents and like community community members could also buy for students or staff and then also a school carnival for elementary kids before homecoming we um um thought that this would be a good idea just to get everyone involved because a lot of students have older siblings that are part
023of homecoming and sometimes they like feel a bit left out and it would just be great to like see the elementary school students and connect with other students in our [Music] district there's [Laughter] Harper you can switch okay um I'm just going to be talking a little bit more about the blood drive coming up this Wednesday um we're looking for some more community members to come in this one's open to community because we also had one back in December I believe um and that one was just students but this one we're is open to the community it'll be in the auditorium gym gym oh it'll be in the gym from 8: to 1 and it's just a way for us to get um some more scholarship money as well and yeah you can either park
024near the W9 doors or the E3 doors um those are just two ways to get in uh so I'm signed up for 2:15 but it's only going till 1 a little confused you're going to give blood for an hour and 15 minutes no no I've signed up at 15 so I'm like must be a little later I guess our first drive was the last donation was 1:00 so they must have extended this come at 2:15 okay good yeah someone will help me so anyways uh kind of our we hinted at a little our Warrior leadership team kind of reward trip uh is the going to Timber wolv on this coming Sunday it's at 6 pm at the Target Center there's over 45 Warrior leadership team students coming with uh the supervising staff we have Mr
025byy Mr py Mr Shel and Mr Dole and we're going the experiences we chose we're going to do the pregame warm-up fan tunnel and the on court experience after the game of course uh pretty solid team this year so that should be more fun than let's just say some years but uh anyways could you get me Ant-Man uh autograph I guess I'm kind of more of a NZ re fan but I can try EV on ped currently from 830 to 2:30 you can sign through the Red Cross 11 so thank you and I guess if uh if anybody has any further questions we'll try and answer them to the best of our abilities are you looking to implement those your actions coming out of these are you looking as a team to implement these for
026the next year any of them well I mean ideally as soon as possible I think we've heard a lot of discussion about having the uh about having the idea of the point system and the elected class officers we've heard a lot about that uh for some of uh some of the other ones it it depends uh I guess uh I think the the weekly meetings again that's a goal of ours most of them uh that we have at least here anyways are kind of more of organizational it's how as an organization are we going to run and make sure that we're we're both uh efficient and effective uh there was also a lot of other good ideas that are more like individual events that were also going to to try and Implement I know uh
027with with like the sales the school store going that's one that might be uh maybe a little more of a long shot but it wouldn't I mean it wouldn't surprise me at all if we were able to get it up uh next year aw yeah I have a question maybe more for Randy like when in where or when in and why did we do away with class officers and you don't know don't know I don't know I don't know if and is that unique to us or is that across the board in the BRC I think it was even purpose I don't think it was on purpose it was the student council kind of uh went away the advisor maybe ended and okay so then it never maybe I'm not sure what the reason was
028that they went away from it but uh speak a little bit to it was through Co obviously when that happened there was a breakup of organizational and who could be an officer elected so during that kind of pause there was but there was kind of a change in opportunity for leadership so instead of putting somebody there to be the class officer as the president they kind of went with a representative so they could throughout the year show and kind of find out who the leaders were because if you elected somebody at the beginning as a president they kind of like a quiet leader weren't really taking charge they kind of found out that maybe we need to try to get through the year for a while to see who would become that person to step
029out um and then through graduation um typically commencement the president would give the address um vice president might do some some part of it um in this way not all presidents wanted to speak so the representatives would kind of all take a piece so kind of going back to that and revisiting it and be kind of student voice trying to figure out that piece um great question to Daniel he did a great job answering it I know in April there's an overnight um overnight plan for student council and what other schools are doing is we're going to send our representative long as Zach to go to the overnight um Retreat and that's where they do the action planning and they're set up for the goals for the next year so at that time we didn't
030have enough time for three hours but they go to the overnight Retreat work with other student leaders and advisers they set an action plan to implement for the following year so that what we will be doing that if you have the dates we signed up it's early April yeah I don't know the exact dates but and the other thing with Daniel's question that he got is I've noticed and just learned throughout my four years of doing this that you can't change very many things quickly you know um so choosing a couple of things every every year from here on out to kind of adapt and try is kind of Our Hope um but we are we are hoping to you know at least consider and discuss these changes with the group so we'll see how
031much we do next year or the next year but take it one step at a time so and then do you plan on going is there another meeting set for next year like this or is it not so EV we're starting well we did this last year but at the end of the year we'll meet with the group that's returning and we'll hopefully maybe we'll talk about the uh elector process if we do roll with that otherwise we'll talk about the reapplication process um and talk about uh homecoming plans just because the homecoming comes so quickly at the start of the year so we want to be more proactive this year at the start and uh hopefully talk about some of these points with the group in the next couple months think referring to the
032opportunity to go yeah the big Rivers the big Rivers y oh gotcha we're gonna host do kind meet a fun Workshop here over the summer here and then I think Hudson already Hudson talked about hosting next year so we were gonna have them up to the lake maybe try and do like a Beach barbecue or something with the group this summer um and then yeah Hudson offered to host for next year so great yeah there's uh any way that that we as a board can help to free up time because I know you're really really busy and uh provide more resources you can do more of what you do I know I would like to know about it I think we'd all like to know about it and if there's anything you can suggest right
033here that'd be great too yeah absolutely thank you and just the networking piece of this being able to connect with it was only six schools you know and so this conference we're going to later in the year is going to have hundreds of schools and so that'll be um it doesn't matter division size they're all showing up too I think this one is in Wisconsin Dell so that'll be um a huge piece in the next step for us um any other questions I think it's smart that you guys are joining the routine meetings because I hear so often about kids that are involved it's like trying to get to you know this program and this program so I think it's awesome if you guys are setting it all ahead of time yeah especially during resource
034time because there's so many different clubs pulling them in so many different areas and when you're dealing with 50 to 70 kids it's it's a lot playing different sports so um yeah those are some of the takeaways we had any other questions a great job what you guys are doing is really important thank you to the students you guys are doing amazing things [Applause] thank you all I got basketball yeah all right next on the agenda we have the 2526 cesa 11 shared service contract that was in our packet this is an action item so with that um keeping things um similar in some respects um but uh electing for next year uh to not knew our our Physical Therapy Services um and that was uh due to a maternity leave I believe and then
035the special education consultation we had a couple of days last year and recommending to drop those um with that and and just looking at um know some of the most basic pieces that we need that we utilize on a on a extensively on a regular basis any questions if not I would entertain a motion to approve the contract as presented so moved a motion is there a second second motion has been made and seconded I have one question after the second just can you provide like a total cost estimate this year versus last year yep it'll be um 17 some of it depends on whether we use hourly Services right yep uh 30 the grant that's we actually get some money back there um it'd probably be um for next year compared to um this
036year I'm GNA say in the neighborhood of about a $10,000 savings so be good thank you any other questions seeing none I have a motion in a second all in favor signify by saying I I I post and that contract has been approved next we have the preliminary Staffing report this is a first reading yes so you've got uh have that information in your packets um and with that again as Kevin said it's a preliminary Staffing report not to not to take action on it until the board meeting in April um but with that we're going to have uh we'll start with high school then middle school and Elementary level and then uh marshia and Lori come up and just talk a little bit about um just a general summary and than any major changes
037they're recommending for next year so so go ahead good evening again I do uh I did have a link in there and I'm just gonna highlight I'm not going to go in depth on the whole whole packet but there's some definit highlights in in the in the link that you'll find for the high school narrative for the high school recommendation I did put the projected enrollment and I did for the next five years so you'll notice in that projected enrollment for next year we'll be going down um 25 students to our lowest enrollment we've had experience in R Lake history um and that is our low point and then you'll see for the next four years as you go forward it stagers back up so 646 down 25 students and then this is just taking
038in account current enrollment in the district this is just looking at current grades from all the way down as you will see the fifth year out prediction includes grades 4567 and that's including St Joe's kids so when we get out to that realm again we'll be back to that 700 number but it's it's a down and then staggers back up with with the 25 um less students just looking at the projections those are real numbers those aren't really um those are just using our current students in there um that reflects um our 912 in the district including our our our W program as well so what we do to start the high school scheduling is it's truly student driven we ask for student requests they take 16 16 uh uh requests plus two alternates and
039we start to D build a schedule around that uh in in the schedule build you will see in that in my narrative on page 16 you'll see the 20 toughest to schedule classes around that means AP courses Singletons and um doubleton we call them if there's only one in this in the year offered that's a single if there's two of the sections offered that would be a doubleton and we start to put them into a a matrix to see how we can staff that uh every year we do this um next year we have uh 226 students that are fit that 20 course load and uh we have 225 that can take the course that we schedule that we have offered on page 16 of that narrative that I have so I feel pretty good
040about the uh the planning process that we have in place um among uh our high School offerings for next year we'll have 131 different courses so we offer about 152 in the course subcription booklet for next year with student selections we'll be running 131 of them that is down 14 sections total from this year so when I say sections a teacher teaches 12 sections a student takes 16 so at a full-time teacher schedule at the high school it's three three blocks per term that's what they teach is 12 so we be down 14 sections and that's reflective in the 25 students down if they fill a fill a course schedule that's roughly what what happens when you have 25 left students you're going to be down roughly 12 to 16 sections right now I'm predicted
041we have a staffing decrease of 14 sections and that would be equivalent to just just over a 1.0 FTE which we're working through at this point and that's what we have uh for Staffing as you know in the front summary page if you've seen these reports from me before you'll see two years um this year and next year's uh back to back you'll see the total number of selections uh students have made in a certain Department you'll see the total number of sections which is what teachers would teach and then um the the kind of the starting point of the the process so that's on page two of that summary and as you go forward in the booklet you'll see a summary for each department and uh that'll kind of take you through the Staffing
042um and how it's proposed for next year um I'll take questions up till up till the wow page I guess at this time and I'll talk a little bit about the Wares on Wisconsin as well but I just as a first read there's a lot of information and you can look at it if there's any questions you have I'm more than happy to answer any of those as we work forward yes sir so career and Tech head is up because you included Personal Finance in that cluster CTE has included personal financers too that's a great question we have personal finance and financial literacy and personal finance is the one that Mrs or has been teaching and she also teaches internship those two courses have been CTE branded so anybody could potentially teach those in CTE
043but business said has been housing those um those two courses the financial literacy course that was adopted that is required of our students that are currently freshman to have as a graduation requirement we we're piloting that second course next year and we do have one section 19 students selected to take that and the three licenses that can teach that based on the state of Wisconsin is family consumer science business Ed or social studies with the Staffing proposal I have I have a little wiggle room within the face department so that's where I'm Staffing that one pilot section the other four sections are personal finance Mrs or will be we'll be Staffing that as normal that up any other questions I fact checked you doubleton is a word it is I didn't make it up you
044could use doad or diead but I like doubleton better so I it was good yeah I might have picked it up from Mr raker him and I work closely together I've never heard that word before till tonight but that was good I liked it the face Department also includes our newly adopted curriculum the curriculum committee's adopted and worked through a lot of things this year one was personal finance financial literacy the other one was approval of our early childhood pathway so that is a posting I will be looking forward to posting after approval of the the Staffing report and that one that's a one-year position we had this year based on our our late hire so that's a posting I'd be putting out to hire a phas teacher potentially with an early childhood certification that
045means students that finish that pathway would earn an early childhood certification we would be looking to internship job shadow within our um wraparound services that we currently are offering at the in the the elementary but also um look at working with local daycares to help hopefully get some students um backfilling our needs in the community and obviously it's what we're looking to do uh little commercial Wednesday night we have CT um uh showcase at the high school um it's going to be open to the public from 5:30 to 6:45 and that's our CTE teachers instead of spending our traditional time doing parent teachers conferences we shared some of that time and they're coming and students are going to be showcasing some of their talents in the wi Tech we have students that'll be Machining and
046Welding uh in the cafeteria we have students from the face uh business and Agriculture and other ones showcasing their talents and then in the atrium kind of coming up the stairs our art students will be doing a um kind of a display of their 2D and 3D art following that um community members that are directly working with our advisory and kind of working with Bert on this as well obviously he has a lot of background with this but we're working on CTE teachers of identifying community members to come in and work in small teams as advisory for future curriculum and making sure we stay relevant uh with our current standing with our curriculum but also rigorous with our Pathways to make sure we need our local needs but also um continue to be freshening up
047our what we do at the high school so we don't get uh too stagnant with our our job skills so but that that's kind of the yeah it sounds like you got quite a few coming from North I want to say Northwood and I think that's a good start of a partnership and things absolutely yeah Northwoods local businesses some entities we've worked with before some um business accounting and other ones that we haven't so I'm exciting to just showcase what we do we drive by it's brick and mortar but we have a lot of great things happening and it's good for some of our community to see what what we can do so thank you I just have one question personal financial literacy I mean we have to receive credit for it so it has
048to be sort of distinct a distinct curriculum correct do that but also have you thought about integrating certain elements of that into other courses informally like in the math course that kids calculate what they can save by doing certain things and the cumulative effect effect of saving a little bit and starting early that sort of thing you know it's it's happening in a lot of CT classes we used to have things called dollars and cents and know our foods and finance class was a course that we adopted in the culinary arts pathway they talk about budgeting and management of money um in the other side of the family consumer science to talk about household income and the early childhood and the child care so they talk about financial implications of having a rent child care
049all those things happen in those two CTE areas you flip it to economics I know we're doing economics and simulations often in the required senior course that we offer with our seniors so you would see a Sprinkle but once once again the state recognized at least not all students take those courses so I think the foundation of it will be the personal finance course but there is lot of application that happens I know Mr copek even does it in his egg pathway in many classes talking about um different components of dairy herd management and how to you know planning and and those things as resources so it's happens but to the level of investing I would say that would happen in business class um in some of those simulations that Miss or and M Mr
050Adams does but then in economics I know they're doing quite a bit of that as well as a three SM course I guess what I'm getting at it's important life skills and even though you don't get credit when you yeah maybe use it integrate into another class would reinforce the principles yeah in in the math technical math there's more application of skills it's not necessarily investment or in that component but uh a misur can answer if there's if there's topics specific and but when you look at algebra geometry and those specifics it's not necessarily the financial literacy side of the math and Those comp think it's kind of the Common Core principle isn't it where you integrate where you can one subject into another one where it's appropriate yeah and it I think kids get
051excited about that when they talk through and see it connecting to other ones that's our Charter School mentality is interdisciplinary it's it's definitely a kids kids can get on it other questions I can take happy thank you all right thank you good evening uh Josh thas here from the Middle School um you know Kurt talked about uh enrollment at the high school being kind of a at a all-time low and uh for me I think at the the middle school this might be the highest enrollment that we've had in the 12 years that I've been here just because we have some bubble classes coming through and so um as they leave there'll be an uptick at the high school and a down tick um at our place just in terms of Staffing it it's going
052to be a very similar look uh to last year we typically I would say um our traditional class size is between 140 and 50 and that means um with that traditional average that typically means six sections for us at each of the grade levels um and so over the last couple of years we've had what I call a couple bubble classes coming through so right now those bubbles will be in seventh and eth grade so you'll see um in the Staffing report that we'll have an additional teacher at each of those grade levels we are getting creative with just skill sets of teachers and how we're kind of um dividing that and organizing it but essentially it's a FTE at each of those grade levels um and then as you look at uh what we'll
053call our specials or our aveng guards um because those numbers are very similar I think um we'll have about 10 more students um overall in the middle school next year than what we had this year uh so we will keep those um oven guards or specials at the same uh FTE in terms of um peras and special ed teachers it's at 8.0 FTE and so that will be kind of maintained at that level we did a lot of um with some of the declining enrollment and things we we made a lot of cuts at the middle school last year in various areas um you know and and we may have to look at some of those things for next year but but because we'll have a few more students um things will be kind of
054status quo uh at least the recommendation is status quo for one more year any questions at all questions attendance coordinator I I noticed here there's a comment that uh you had two attendance coordinators over the last two school years and you're recommending eliminating one of those that was a cut that was made already last year oh last year so those are a few cuts that we had okay with with uh chasing yeah you know it's uh it it's obviously uh this might not be the right way but uh whacka all to some degree you know we're just we're constantly spending time and energy uh Mrs Leaf uh along with staa at our place really uh spent a lot of time I I want to say there's several phone calls every morning um we sent our
055officer out uh into the country today to pick up a student and so um you know we're doing everything we can to to uh take those those uh obstacles away for parents and families and and get kids to school so our data is showing an uptick uh you know Ste steady growth from covid um but you know of course there's there's still work to do always so any other questions did we cut the War Room last year too by one staff and that is working out yeah you know again everybody's busy but uh we're making it work so I like that I understood whacko so chuckecheese all right thank you thank you thanks so at the elementary level uh numbers are not as good as what we've been seeing at Middle School High School uh
056numbers have been declining and especially at our youngest grades the 4kk uh levels and so you're actually going to see that where we have some reductions in staffings with the elementary um piece uh also for next year the way that we're structuring 4K is different so we're going to have uh 4K at Hilltop as well as tainter uh and Hilltop is new to us for 4K next year um with the addition and the new classrooms and stuff up there it gave us space where we could actually house 4K students up there um and so when you look at the number with our 4K program uh next year we are looking at an enroll well currently we're sitting at 68 we had 88 in our 4K program this year and so that's a pretty big drop
057off we usually pick up some students from 4K into kindergarten where they enroll where they were maybe uh doing some homeschool stuff or they're enrolled in different types of programs uh in some situations there may be in a program outside of Rice Lake where they can be there all day and receive some of the 4K instruction for part of it and so that's part of why we shifted our model a little bit is hopefully to try and encourage some families to come to Rice Lake and stay in Rice Lake for that 4K hoping that they would continue on so for 4K next year because our numbers are so low we are projecting uh of having two sections at Hilltop two sections at tainter and with numbers being so low at Hogan for next year we're
058looking at not having 4K at hogen uh and again that's a projection based on what we currently have for for enrollment uh you know if there's a large increase we can always look at that again uh at the kindergarten level because our 4K this year is pretty small we're also going to be reducing at the kind at the kindergarten level and so we're still going to have one at Hogan we will have two at Hilltop and then we will have three kindergarten sections at tainter sure so continuing on with our first grade so this year we currently have 10 sections of first grade and next year we are projecting seven so one at hogin two at Hilltop and then four at tainter and then for the second grade currently have eight sections we are looking
059to move that to 10 to for that larger class with one at Hogan three at Hilltop and then six of them at Tanger great good evening so at third grade actually we are remaining the same so we currently have eight sections and we will continue that eight sections um one at hogin three at Hilltop and four at tainter and then at Fourth uh for fourth grade we currently have eight sections and then we are projecting that we're going to move reduced to seven sections uh one will be at hogin three will be at Hilltop and then we are moving from 4 to three at tainter so we have a smaller class of third graders so we'll be reducing a section at tainter so and then because we have a reduction of sections across the district
060that impacts our specials uh so the fied art music and things like that um with Jenny Jensen's retirement we felt that we can still cover the fied if we keep it at three uh full-time fied teachers instead of four uh going into the next school year the uh music we're still going to be at two with that one and a half with art and we're going to have to get a little bit creative um because the way that 4K is structured we have to provide some specials with 4K and so we're able to use uh some of the time for music and some of the time maybe for art uh these are some of the things that we still have to try and figure out in terms of structuring the day uh what would work
061for um providing some specials at that 4K level and keep some of the people at full-time as well uh library media will still be at one across the district and the school counselors is going to remain the same as well one one at the elementary level yes any questions any questions will you be able so am I correct that there's four positions being eliminated in The four classes four so the elementary three overall overall three sections and then and then 25 down to 22 Yeah and with the bubble classrooms we're moving we're currently working through like who's moving and how that works and one of that one of those reductions too is or tainer specifically is um a teachers's going to be moving over to Hilltop any other questions all right thank you thank you
062thanks at the district level um you can see um for some of the coaching positions and support positions um not a lot of changes really the only change is a small reduction in literacy coaches um you might remember a midye our high school literacy coach who is also English teacher um resigned just from the literacy coach portion um so we're not replacing that High School literacy coach which was about a02 FTE that is the only recommended change that I have um we'll still maintain the same number of positions in the other areas any questions that was pretty easy okay good all right thank you here we go good evening um as far as special education goes um not recommending a whole lot of changes at this time um we did have one student graduated who
063needed an educational interpreter um for sign language um so that person um retired actually and so that position won't be replaced because we just don't have a need at this time um we are going to increase one of the 4K Paras currently Works four days a week so she's at 80% so we'll increase her position to full five days a week um to accommodate the new 4k um being five days a week we will probably be doing some shifting of Staff as we move towards um with the 4K being between Hilltop and tainter we're also going to move currently we have a um special education teacher that primarily works with three-year-olds and gets out in the community does a lot of community- based um work as well as inh house um and then we have
064a a a special education teacher who primarily works with 4K next year we are going to have one of those teachers serve tainter and do 3K and 4K at tainter and then the other one is going to work with 3K and 4K originally she was going to go toen but um now that 4K is not going to be out there probably not um and then she also serves Head Start and then the continue to the community based so there will be some shifting and probably some shifting imp perias to support that so students will start to go to their home school um if they're disabled so that's going to be a shift a little bit too so might be shifting staff more than we are um changing staff if that makes any sense but no
065other changes at this time any questions any questions right thank you all right that is our staffing preliminary Staffing report for next year any questions before we move on see none next we have the finance committee meeting update all righty uh finance committee met March 20th uh all members were present and uh Doug kochko is our chair and we had a very drawn out election but I managed to capture the vice chair and so I'll be doing the report tonight if you're wondering why all right um so we gave notice um approve the minutes uh first thing on the agenda agenda was a report from Courtney Foss who is you know I guess we don't call it the pool the Aquatic Center manager and uh we uh approved uh some expanded hours and um fees
066which uh we had suggested maybe updating their web page so that uh the public could kind of see the new hours and fees and what's going on and she said that is in the works um and the Aquatic Center is coming along nicely uh we also voted to uh post a night manager um she thought currently uh some of the kids are uh doing the night managing and we thought maybe or she thought maybe an adult uh would be more appropriate now that uh there's going to be a lot more going on there if I just may it would be someone who's a who's a lifeguard as well just an adult presence yes um the next thing on our agenda was uh the bus rates uh we got the proposal from the bus company uh
067and obviously there's going to be some increase uh we have haven't accepted it we sent the admin or suggested the admin Administration discuss further with the bus service and report back to us um but uh things are looking pretty good uh because uh although the rates are going up we're going to save a little bit uh because of the 4 day or 4K um all day so we're hoping that some of the increase will be offsite quick question on that goad Randy with the decrease in enrollment in our district this next year are we still going to be running the same number of routes that's what Victor and I want to meet with with the bus service and talk about that was yeah that was yeah the the rate was not the kind of the
068Tipping point it was the routes there's about 25 regular routes night and morning so we just want to talk about that perfect thank you so we'll be coming back with that proposal at some point um we approved raising the health insurance premiums uh to $900 for a single and $2,100 for a family for 2526 which is an increase of $100 each on those uh the next thing we discussed was um raising the fee for the staff using the clinic that are not on the uh District's health insurance plan from $80 to $105 uh and we approve that this fee doesn't cover any of the labs or medications but um we would be able to Outsource that or the person could go to an outside Pharmacy to get their medication uh we approved uh retiring one
069van and one Suburban from the district vehicle Fleet and buying a new Chevy Traverse and we also were having the first reading on the Boys and Girls Club lease that you was in your packet uh and we reviewed that and we are discussing tonight in close session the uwecbc building lease um so we kind of reviewed and talked about that um and we kind of discussed that once we come to an agreement on that lease that we would like to have uh an in informative presentation so the community kind of knows what our plans are for that building um we tabled HRA vendor reviewed the bills set our next meeting date and adjourned done I made it any questions and I'm just gonna add one little piece the thank you Don the the vehicle replacement
070piece we do have a line item in our maintenance budget where we put money in there every year um and with selling two of the older ones and that line item in the maintenance budget would cover the cost of a of a new vehicle because we need to continue to we need to rotate some of those out in addition I think Victor said we got some hail damag money that yes we are utilizing as well yeah right fix the vehicle exactly I have one question about the Boys and Girls Club I had understood that the district was going to um pay expenses for the community center but in the lease here it says that the bgcbc will be responsible for all utility costs of the community center so yeah and we I think our intent
071there was they pay the utility cost on their side of the building and we need to figure out how best to do that but the community center would be on the district that's is that not what it sorry just a second but it doesn't sound clear just I mean it says utility costs the community center okay um so they'll be responsible for any okay repairs the educational facility I don't know wasn't totally clear to me but lawyers involved no we'll make sure utility cost clear any other questions right so that lease agreement is this is the first reading so that'll be coming back uh Randy will check on Phil's question and then we'll bring that back for a second reading what page was that on next on the agenda we have the buildings and grounds
072committee meeting update we met on Thursday March 20th at 5:30 and uh all board members were present we approved the minutes and got into the pool discussion we had some updated pictures that we reviewed um the pool is making progress as of last week I believe Wednesday the concrete for the second pool tank was completely poured so now it's going through its curing process so we can essentually get water in it test it and then uh start putting tile down um otherwise things are moving along pretty nice there's some nice uh changes that we're starting to see and some completions on some things and the classrooms up stairs on the second floor um are being utilized already the music art and occupational and physical therapy classrooms all three of those are U up and running
073and I believe we haven't lost any students down the hall going the wrong way I saw there was a cute little sign Hilltop that way when you come out of one of the classrooms so um so we talked about that they're still uh looking at the first part of May when uh they should have things starting to wrap up so hopefully they can stay on that schedule they're also talking about um getting the competition pool filled um here in about 3 to four weeks I believe yeah hopefully we have money for the water and then we will uh we will start using the equipment and circulating the water and making sure that I think May 2nd I think is the scheduled the um pool inspection for that and our current understanding we got a double
074check courtne he's going to be double checking but I mean basically the if they come and inspect that day um I guess we wouldn't maybe have the occupancy permit yet but I mean if it passes that day it's theoretically people can jump in the water but um we just need an occupancy permit so sure perfect so that was the pool update then the community center um if anybody's been up p the old pool um about 34 of it maybe a little bit more is gone um it's coming down fairly fast and then uh once they get that done they'll do some dirt work and then the first week in June I believe they will be doing uh foundations for the new facility so they'll be starting um as soon as they can in June then
075the Conservancy that that uh has kind of come to its completion things are fairly well wrapped up out there there's a couple minor things I got to change the locks on the doors they've got to um fix some air leaks at the door level couple minor things but otherwise that facility is now up and running and uh it's kind of exciting and we talked about uh purchasing new bleachers in the new gym at the high school so it's on the East wall there's set of I believe five rows of bleachers there and uh they're designed to go in and out and the they're original from when that gym was built and all the uh metal underneath the bleachers is starting to bend over time and so it makes it hard for them and they're manually
076in and out and so we've got our cust staff trying to get these in and out to uh to be utilized when they need to be and and uh so we looked at a possibility of having a company come in and just try to straighten all the bars and everything that are there um and based on the cost and there was no guarantee that they'd be able to get them straight enough to where it would still work fine and so we had room in our budget for this year yet um so approved moving forward with new bleachers there and now the new ones will be um mechanical in and out so they'll be just they just got to push a button and it'll go in or out um so we don't have to uh worry
077about anybody getting down and hurting themselves with the with the old bleachers so that's uh that is those bleachers and we talked about a district storage building right now we're still renting a storage facility um that is over in the Mallette Development Area and so it's not real convenient to any of our buildings it's not too bad for tainter but other than that it's kind of a distance and then Hilltop or uh the Middle School staff their skid steer for snow removal has to sit outside so they get there in the morning at 3:4 o00 in the morning they got to clean it off they've got to hopefully it'll start if it's been plugged in all that good stuff and so part of that facility uh that 50 by 80 pole building would be um
078heated and uh allow them to work on their equipment if something breaks when it's cold um along those lines as well but we uh have tabled that for now um the only place we could see based on um having a contractor come in and look at where it would cost us the least as far as moving dirt and keeping it level is down along Allen Street where those some of those pine trees are so we come in off of Cameron Road but go in basically in that area where um those pine trees are and there would be a driveway and parking lot gravel lot on both ends so the one end will be heated the other end will be a cold storage so then we don't have to be paying rent but again that's been
079tabled for now um along with the trees on Allen Street um because we were noticed that from the city that that area under those pine trees has to be mowed unfortunately a lot of those pine trees have roots that are sticking way up we can't get in there with with MERS um so we suggested that uh we go in and have someone come in and spray it with Roundup and kill out the weeds that the city is is concerned about and then we don't have to worry about breaking our lawnmowers in those trees so that's where we're at on trees uh administration building second floor getting the electric and everything run so that is more um user friendly at this time we have uh chosen to just hold tight on moving forward with that summer
080maintenance work Brad and Victor discussed some of the maintenance items uh for the summer including the new roof on the we tech building the lower shop and then uh we've got a lot of uh parking lots that need uh to see some crack filling done so they uh that's that's product or that's uh projects that would come out of our budget budgeted monies um for this last school year so those are the summer projects and then uh the W uwcbc building um Baron county has approved the lease in the student center very similar the lease is very similar to what we had when we were at the an Street school and that'll be something we'll be talking about in close session um tonight and then uh the parking lot crack filling we already talked about
081that so that was our meeting we adjourned and uh our next meeting date for got to write that down yeah do we have it I think we said TBD I think oh that's right that's why I didn't have it yep to be determined so any questions on buildings and grounds yeah one quick question on the pool the competition pool you're having May 2nd the other pool is that on the same timeline or is that no it's a little bit later in May might be um I think right now that's scheduled for the 22nd I think in order because the tile installers need more time so yep I think right now it's the second I'm glad you asked the second and the 22nd on the other one okay thank you you bet Kevin I think you
082mentioned uh the idea of having sort of a present front at some point about the whole concept of the child care center at ecbc and will and things like that I think that'd be a good idea that the community hears it right from the source yeah yeah after we come to an agreement with the contract on our side and we know we'll be going forward then we can we can uh do that presentation any other questions or comments All Right Next we have our curriculum committee meeting update Diane hello can you hear me gotta perfectly okay great all right well um our last curriculum committee was on February 25th and so I'm going to be reporting on that tonight thank you for bearing with me on longdistance reporting again all members were present at our
083meeting um and first of all we approved the minutes from our December 17th meeting then we had a couple of really good reports the first one was on the ACT 20 implementation krie dansi and Chris Thompson are district literacy coaches and reading specialist presented us with an overview of the key objectives of act 20 and the steps that the district is taken to meet those requirements for those of you who aren't familiar with what act 20 is act 20 is a Wisconsin law that was passed in 2023 it's aimed at improving early literacy outcomes for all students it requires schools to provide science-based early literacy instruction and assess literacy skills for students in grades 4 K through third grade and that's to ensure that they develop strong reading skills by the end of third grade
084so Chris and uh Ki reported to us that they are continuing to establish practices and create a good system for identifying students who need remediation and then um making sure that their families are notified and that teachers receive the training needed to help those students achieve the literacy goals uh we found out that our district has actually been implementing these strategies before act 20 was enacted so we are ahead of the game thanks to excellent administrators and teaching staff we appreciate all they do for us next we heard the uh achievement Gap reduction midyear update Natalie Springer Joanne Walker and Nate vek presented us with the midyear report that's required by the PPI on the achievement Gap Reduction Program um often referred to as AGR a little background on that the AGR program was created
085in 2015 by the state of Wisconsin under a law called act 53 and it fully replaced the sage program in 2017 and 18 it's a program that provides state aid to districts that participate in it provided that they meet specific strategies in every K through grade three classroom we must have performance objectives in place and a plan to reduce the achievement gap between lowincome students in that school and students in the same grade and subject Statewide in both reading and math Marsha if I made a mistake on any of that this is now your time to correct me you're doing great I was going say sounds great she said okay okay our committee heard about the implementation plan for our AGR program and the sources that they're using to assess the program uh some of
086you have heard of fastbridge as web and the report card statements the goals for math are that 70% of students engag in grades K through three will meet the end of the year benchmarks as measured by the fash Bridge assessment and the goals for reading are that 70% of students will be in the lowrisk category for the end of the year Benchmark as measured by the as web assessments at the time of this midyear report we're meeting our goals in K1 and three and very close to meeting them in grade two in math in Reading we are very close to meeting our goals in grades two and three but still have a little way to go in kindergarten in grade one that's if I read all these graphs correctly does that sound right Mara yeah
087she said yes okay so at this time is there any questions from anybody on the committee no any questions all right seeing none our third topic was just a short preview of the enrollment and Staffing for 2526 which has been covered thoroughly tonight so won't go over that and our next meeting is tomorrow night at 5:30 if you all want to come and join the fun so reporting from the land of the sun this is Diane coer you know we had a little bit of snow last night right oh dear Diana is tomorrow your last curriculum meeting I don't know depends on the dates the next day thank you for your service thank you my pleasure you bet I I have a question not necessarily for Diane but related uh we were ahead of the
088game and implementing some of these measures um that encouraged Insurance of early literacy the funds have been held up and is there any way we can recoup some of the cost because I know the schools that implement the program knew and weren't Forward Thinking I think we're supposed to be able to get a little cost sharing and I think there was a way that schools that had reestablished it could recoup some of it too I you Marsha unless you feel any different I'm not going to hold my breath so I don't think we are going to be able to recoup any of those costs at this point i' I'd be shocked but yeah yeah they they've said they aren't going to go back to that but yeah I am proud of that fact Diane mentioned
089it um we're probably a couple years ahead of the curve in terms of adopting the science-based approach to to literacy instruction in the district so all right thank you for that report next we have policy and legislative advocacy committee meeting update and we met on Tuesday March 18th and we were missing Diane otherwise all board members were present and um we got a little bit of a legislative advocacy update with the joint finance committee that'll be in Hayward the finance committee will be coming around they will be in Hayward in April Phil will uh give us a little more on that in a little bit you say 29th Monday the 29th the 29th at from 10:00 10 to five and then we got into doing policy we've got before we get into our first reading
090we got second reading policy 511 with the rule exhibit and then policy 860 with the rule um so with that I would entertain a motion to approve those two policies with their rules and the one exhibit I would move to prove uh 511 on 860 motion has been made is there a second second motion has been made and seconded any further discussion why was the um the policy on the dogs why was that not brought back in we just talked about that at our uh last at our last meeting week so it'll it'll be on the next agenda um motion has been made and seconded all in favor signify by saying I I I post and those policies have been approved first reading then we're bringing forward policy 110 policy 111 130 131.8 131.0 154
091you want me to read what what they are I probably should so 110 is District Mission vision statement um policy 111 is District objectives policy 130 is Board of Education legal status 131.35 is the board education ad advocacy uh 166 Board of Education member electronic communications 166 the rule goes along with that electronic communication uh policy 171 regular Board of Education meetings policy 181 Roberts Rules of Order newly revised uh policy uh policy 184 Board of Education minutes policy 185 Board of Education committees rule 185 goes along with the Committees policy 186 citizen advisory committees policy policy 347 p uh pupil uh records and the rule for that uh policy as well those are the ones that are coming back or coming to you for first reading could I just interrupt you for one second
092because I just want to remind you or the rest of the board uh policy 110 uh the district mission and vision statement just so we're all transparent we word smithed it a little bit we didn't really change the content of the the mission or vision statement we just wanted the rest of the board to maybe take a look at it and see that we had actually made a little revision on the mission and vision statement we didn't feel like we had to get a whole committee together to like reord the whole thing I think the concept was just to do it in plain language it was uh something we heard down at wasby where they said so important just to have your District mission statement clear plane and concise and they were talking about um
093life career and college ready and I thought that's really good it really sums things up so anyways in your first reading you might want to take a look at it thanks sorry no no you could just uh comment anything else any questions down to it all right that was the first reading then for those and then we uh we adjourned oh I did miss a couple yeah on the back page on the back page forgot to turn it over exhibit uh for the 347 um policy so with that we'll move into our information section Communications committee meeting uh minutes yeah and just with those just a reminder that committee meets uh at least four times a year um did want to point out one thing um you know and just areas to focus on we
094had a little more discussion on it and we get updates from the building leadership teams and staff meetings uh but you know Ai and and talked a little bit about what the needs are um I know Aaron Johnson has been working with the High School uh during collaboration time uh just to to talk more about that and and talk through some ideas um just because I know we've talked about that in some committees as well or even like down at convention and uh just looking for more professional development to follow and that'll just be an area we continue to focus on so okay any questions thank you next school drill evaluation from the r Lake High School yeah just one of those whole drill at the high school in W building and just part of
095that information that gets reported to the to the state of Wisconsin Department of Justice every year okay any questions if not WSB public policy correspondent update what do you got for us Phil uh listen and took notes on the legislative uh update video that they did on the 19 and uh one of the topics was uh somewhat technical they discussed how um the city of Marinette has gotten into a little trouble because when they went in the closed meetings they didn't clearly enough State what the purpose of the closed meeting was and uh that was kind of interesting and I was impressed that I think we do things pretty much by the book here but I learned something there um they also talked about the technicalities of selecting uh new board members um then with
096the legislative uh part of it um they talked a little bit about uh the federal changes you probably heard a lot about that uh the the title one a which is I believe to help disadvantage students and things like that um is not going to be eliminated but transferred to other departments um so we'll have to see what happens with all of that um state budget state budget is almost certainly going to be late which means that we're going to be locked into last year's funding uh for a couple of reasons uh one is that uh what Diane already talked about related to act 20 that 50 million that the joint finance committee had appropriated for funding and uh they wanted to control uh certain aspects of the curriculum that was selected and how that
097money was used and the governor thought otherwise he thought that was his spending so he gave it to the DPI so that's still in court um I guess doesn't affect us too much since we're not eligible for the funding anyway since we had been doing it so I guess that's Silver Lining there but the big thing is that there's no trust between the governor and the legislature the the legislature is afraid that uh if they write a budget um that if it can be vetoed with an ultra fine point pan and numbers change that it's just sort of a blank slate for the governor and they thought there were some agreements between the governor's office and the legislature that were violated so they basically stated that that uh it's going to take quite a while
098to get a budget through now they're waiting for a couple of Wisconsin Supreme Court decisions one on the ACT 20 funding and uh one is going to be on the line item veto and I guess uh that's independent of the election in April because the current Supreme Court in Wisconsin is probably going to rule on those um we talked about the joint finance committee hearing hearings the one near us is in Hayward on April 29th and I think we'll have some representation there I've already talked in the past about uh some of the bills that have already gone through the assembly haven't yet made it to the Senate so I don't think I'm going to spend much time on those the first bill was to um change the cut scores the DPI changed uh the
099way um the evaluation of the uh what's the word I want the evaluation of the uh competence of the students at at Great levels um is is being evaluated and compared I think there was some changes to the forward exam and um changes to the way the report card for school districts was done uh and the legislature wants to um undo those changes and increase the standards to what they were I guess a little bit that's kind of funny because on the on the uh wasby update they said Governor iers had opposed the changes but now he supports what the DPI is doing so I guess they don't quite know what to do about that a second Bill going through the assembly uh would prohibit cellular devices during instructional time which sounds like what we're
100doing already um bill that would require um half a credit of civics for graduation and I think I've heard that we're sort of doing that also right promoting good citizenship which is really one of our goals here R freshman freshman correct take American citizenship and as a part of that they take uh the the citizenship test for the United States and uh there are a number of other bills one I mentioned I'll quick quickly just mention again to require 70% of uh expenses uh be uh operational expenses be used in the classrooms um so I'll let it go at that it's getting to be sort of a broken record until some of these bills travel a little farther through the legislature any questions all right thank you for that update the upcoming meeting schedule we
101have a number of webinars s starting Friday March 28th and then uh pretty regular throughout the next month those do not require registration so if you want to pop onto a webinar uh please do so and then uh let us know what you found out and then coming up on April 22nd uh there is a new board member gathering at uh C 11 at o' for any new board members that we will have and because Diane not running again we will have at least one so um and then uh they also offer that as a webinar um later in the the month so that is our upcoming meeting schedule and the students already presented this evening and and uh so then we'll move on to our District Administrative comments yeah just a couple things in
102addition to uh the things uh Mr Shel and the students talked about before um but one thing I did want to mention we have prom and post prom coming up and it's not till the end of April uh but just want to thank our community we have so many individuals businesses uh that donate to post prom uh it's going to be from you know 11:45 to 3:00 a.m. uh to give students a you know safe enjoyable fun activity to do after prom so just want to thank our community for that and then uh just today I'm G to bump up our Facebook page a little bit more um the sorry there it is so the Summer Academy booklet um so I know registration for our summer academy uh the four weeks of summer school we
103do every summer uh opens April 1st so anybody watching or listening uh if you're interested in that you can check that out on our website you can check it out on our Facebook page um if you just search Summer Academy on the website or uh go to this you can check it out all right that's all I've got all right and with that then we will move in to uh entertaining a motion to convene and to close session pursuant to Wisconsin statutes 19.85% [Music] and also uh talk about an employee contract and then 19.85% coer yes Don kusky and Andrew coup yes thanks all right thanks Diane we'll see you later thank you see it's gonna be a hike no it won't take us long