001All right, we'll start the committee portion of the meeting. Uh the first thing on the agenda is um the student board leaison policy. Yeah. So we talked about this um briefly around a month ago. Uh Mr. Wilson reviewed it as did I. We're recommending only one minor change. Uh Mr. Wilson has it which is striking item three with respect to the guidance. um office verifying the academic standing. The reason being is that that's easily verified by the principal or you know frankly anybody that has access to Skyward to to um identify those grade or to power school pardon me to identify those grades. So um the rest is based on a um an essay process. Uh it sounds like that'll be done in conjunction with student council and we have already identified a liaison and
002a alternate that would be given their duties coming September. So we should be all set. The plan will be that we uh determine a mechanism by which they can be assigned or have access with their schoolisssued email to board book and therefore they would have access to reviewed materials in a similar time frame to you folks prior to the meeting and as the policy states they're here to be um expressing the student viewpoints on various topics and and where appropriate. They do not get a vote of course as the uh board is concerned but their opinion on multiple topics may be sought from you folks or they may have feedback from students that they bring to the board meeting to share about various agenda items. The plan will be to have the alternate serve then
003as the liaison the following year. So that junior uh student will have a 2-year commitment and Mike and I talked about the fact that the alternate would come in would get access to materials would be um reviewing the materials as well but wouldn't have to necessarily attend unless the liaison themselves couldn't attend uh which I would think would be fairly rare but with sports or whatever else is going on there might be an occasional need to miss. So any questions? I have one. Do we have to then modify the agenda for the students on to speak or would they be just part of the board members? Well, that's related to training. Do you remember how we did that? Historically, we had them listed so that they had an opportunity to present what's going on from
004the school's perspective. However, um we would get a lot of overlap between between the high school students perspective and the high school principal's perspective and very little feedback obviously from what was going on middle and elementary school. So it wasn't it was more novel than productive necessarily in that way. Yeah. Rapids and in Baron, we had a student board member and we had um uh an area denoted on each agenda just for a student update. And admittedly, they did share a lot of things that would the high school principal may share too in terms of like upcoming events or recent events, that sort of stuff. Um but I'm sure that in working with Mike, if we don't need to be redundant, so he can focus his commentary on something else uh that the student doesn't
005cover. But I do think it would be valuable for them to have an opportunity to share a few things. Absolutely. Yeah. Well, I'm looking forward to getting it back. We'll make sure that in um we'll make a note that September we'll have like student liaison comment or update or something like that. And Brent, when we had new ones come on, I would just meet with them oneonone if they wanted to to give an idea of what to expect, right? what board meeting might look like and what looks like. Good idea. Thanks. Um, that's all right. So, any other questions on the policy change? not on the policy, but how does the it said in that the students share with the student body their information from the meeting? How do they share that? Like do they
006have a is it through announcements or do they have open forum? I would guess it be the announcements. Anything else? All right. Next is the board meeting schedule for 2526. Follows the same format that we've passed or have done in the past. Um any comments, questions about that? I just have a question. Um if the board would consider um looking at a different day of the week just as a parent with the athlete in school. Typically the activities are on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. Would there be any reason that we couldn't consider moving the board meeting to a different day of the week? Um can we do that at any time? We don't have to wait for the annual meeting. I don't think so. As long as they're properly posted and we get the word
007out that we'll shift them from Tuesdays to Wednesdays. I don't think there's any other requirement statuto change our calendar at any time notice that we one piece is consistency with respect to what people anticipate or expect right and daughter and I talked about this briefly prior to the meeting and I don't know how long it's been the second and fourth Tuesday but I'm guessing for a long time and that would be the only you know possible hitch which is why I didn't realize it was switched you know, we have a better social media presence and a strong website to put that information out there. So, if we opted to um but it's been Tuesdays as long as I've been on the board. Um, but it used to be at 700 p.m. and gradually shifted earlier
008and earlier and people were quite receptive or not unhappy with that. So, so as individual board members I I mean obviously we would need to put this on agenda to have a full discussion but does it bear putting on an agenda consider probably couple meetings a year travels I'm generally around if nobody cares and I say it out front you Historically, Wednesdays were terrible for me, but that's not the truth. Does it work better for the press if we move our days? Not with the press. Oh, I thought you had an inner county leader here now. No. No. No. Sorry about that. But I I share information with the press, but I'm not with the press. Okay. My apology. That's okay. Um, all right. So, yeah, we I don't have a problem bringing it back.
009Uh, we mentioned I'm assuming everybody likes Wednesdays versus Mondays. Mondays is still sports. Yeah. I mean, summer sports take place on Mondays or winter sports, too. Also, football, I guess, all the seasons. Okay. Yeah. I I don't have a preference. Um, now that it's out there, we can at least think about it and put it not direct it to Wednesday on the agenda, but to consider changing the day of the week so that we can have a full discussion about days and times. So, we'll bring this back. Um, so what I'll do though is I'll just go ahead and work up alternate the same thing, but with Wednesdays being the dates. A couple still need to be Mondays. Like the 27th of October is an annual meeting and the 27th of April is the board
010reorgan swearing in and do board members. So that'll stay the same. But I can do Wednesdays. And I'm assuming we wouldn't do Christmas Eve. So if we needed a second board meeting in December, you'll need to put a different date on that. But that can happen year on Tuesday. bring it back around. Thanks for the consideration. Yeah. And maybe I won't maybe I miss the same number because maybe gain some, lose some. So, do we continue to set this as our tentative schedule and then have that conversation or have that conversation before we approve the schedule? Well, as long as we take care of it in June, I think we're fine. Okay. Because it starts in July. So, Yeah, but if we're talking about it, um I would recommend that we approve it right away
011at the first meeting in June. So have the discussion and then approve it so that we can communicate with the public to the degree necessary to get the intel out there and then. But do we change it for the second meeting in June or will that become confusing if we put the information out and don't change it for the second meeting? So I don't think we should. I think that it should this year we should finish as it stands on Tuesdays and so that would be effective July one in our communications. We'll make sure that that's clear if it's changed. No, I would agree. I think we just stick with starting on July. All right. So, we'll bring that back. Any other discussion? Hearing none. We'll set the meeting date and time for the 2526
012board goals. Uh we talked about it briefly the last meeting. Maybe if there's not a heavy June agenda, we can maybe do it then the second Tuesday of June. Um or we can pick another date. Um do we know how I don't think it's going to be bad based on what I know. Um, I don't have anything on it other than a couple thing, you know, from tonight to approve. Otherwise, I don't have anything extra. I think we'll be set with hiring after tonight. So, that would be June 10th. Correct. Yeah, that makes good sense to me. The only concern I would have is whether Tasha might be available. Um, but she's planning on coming back in June for all of us. Um, I think we should tentatively. Right. I agree. And is that um
013so that's just like a a kind of a work session or discuss and develop board goals for 2526. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And typically I mean the one thing about doing it that way is that in the past we bounced around the elementary school alternative school. I mean we would just come here and do it which is fine. um or we move the board meeting which is probably not as easy to do that. So we would do that um here have the regular board meeting and we just stick around afterwards and it's traditionally was posted as a regular meeting right open session. Yeah. Yeah. We haven't had much for turnout to prepare anything for you. No. You don't we don't generally even stay. It's just these guys. Yeah. If you want any supplementary information or anything
014like that, we can get stuff together. We can all think about it. I mean, like last year, we just went off the strategic plan quite a bit obviously and, you know, wanted to make sure we were tying into that. Um, I'm assuming this year somewhat similar, but that's still several years ago now, the um admin team felt a little bit blindsided by our goals. So, I think we now historically have been um running the past admin team to make sure that we're not doing something that doesn't align with what they're doing or we're not making a goal that they're already doing. We just weren't aware some of those sorts of things. So, before they pass, we want to make sure the admin. No problem. All right. So, we'll tab schedule for next June. June 10th
015after the regular board meeting. All right, moving on to discuss the open enrollment. Uh in your packet was the normal spreadsheet for that. And this is all students or just new students? These would be new applications, correct? Yes, this is just new. Anybody who's already currently open enrolled continues here for policy. Any questions, comments? There's one deny on there and that's just because we don't have the accommodations. No, it's because we set caps in January each year and if there I think the only place we had space and I'm not sure if that space is even open any longer is is uh speech wasn't speech. No, I think we're there was one category where I think we had a seat if I recall or maybe that was the prior January but anyway if they apply
016for open enrollment and have special needs and it exceeds the cap that's been set by the district, then that application is denied. All right. Any other questions or comments? Hearing none, we'll move on to the addendum for the CISA shared services contract. So, as uh the boards are any aware, we did a posting for a school, our current school psychologist is retiring at the end of the school year. We did a posting to fill the school psychologist position. Had two applicants, one being um the individual that uh was an intern here in the fall semester and the other being an individual that uh um had applied coming from the opposite side of the state. We did interviews and had a conversation to offer to the individual that actually served as our intern uh and they
017chose to take a position elsewhere. We interviewed the second person and based on some uh followup there decided not to move forward in that regard and so therefore uh based on timing we're going to do a point in the school year with something like school psychologists. We want to have that locked down. Um turn to CISA. CISA does have um 1.0 FTE school psych. So that basically means 200 days we would have them full-time. Uh but of course we're paying for their entire package, their total package, salary and benefits plus um an increase or markup that CISA passes along for operational costs and administration, those sorts of things. Um it's expensive. I'm not going to debate that. We al although don't have any options and so I think it makes the most sense that we
018lock down the school psych via the CISA contract for now as we head into next year and then what we intend to do is do another posting come January February of next year to see if we can find our own school site so we don't have to pay the additional amount um for them being a CISA employee but school psychologists across the state are hard to come by. I was surprised we even had two applications to be honest with you. Um in my past experience we have have gone without school sites because you just can't find it. You can't create a human being with the u with the schooling and the degree required. So at least we've got an option. All right. Any questions on that? And when you don't have one, you open yourself
019up. Well, ironically, you can't really not have one. Um, back in the old days, I know when John Gillan was here, he was a licensed school psychologist and special ed director, and the district was lucky enough to have him take team and and do, you know, two things at once, as it were. Uh, that's fairly rare. And there are certain evaluations that need to be undertaken by a school psych. And based on our special ed population, the way it stands, it's pretty much a full-time gig. So, you can't really not and if we didn't have a human being, we would likely be looking at some kind of virtual option or some other kind of stuff that is really tough to um implement. So, Do we feel like if we had more time to hire somebody
020that we would potentially get more candidates in our bucket or not? No. Okay. It was posted for a long time. We posted it I I don't remember, but I think we posted in February and it was posted for February, March. I think we did our interviews in April or late March. Maybe it was even posted in January. But yeah, we had it out there for six or eight weeks for sure. And if you look on weekend, there's probably 150 school site postings out there. Really? It's wild. Yeah. To dig in the archives and find a student that went to school for one. Any other questions or comments? Well, we'll move on to the athletic trainer services. Okay. So, we've talked about this before, too. Um, not specifically the go for uh contract, but based on
021the circumstances that the board's all already in the loop on with respect to trying to find health or pardon me, athletic trainer services here locally, um, those things didn't really materialize. So you basically have two options which is to post and try to hire an athletic trainer on your own or work through an entity like this go for healthcare who basically employs um athletic trainers and then we purchase the the services from them. Uh that's what this contract outlines. Um, Chitech Warehouser School District is the indivi that's the where I've got the information about this go for uh services and and then Tara Rose the athletic director reached out and had a conversation with that that kind of got the ball rolling on this. Um, what it ends up being is basically full-time athletic training
022services during the school year that's build out at a rate of I think it's $84 an hour or something like that. Um, as you know, what we're currently doing is utilizing people that aren't technically athletic trainers. They're first responders or EMTs. Um, and it's great that they're willing to assist and that we have coverage where we need coverage, but it would also be preferred that we had an athletic trainer that is basically for the school district that is present uh before practices and at contests and that kind of thing during the school year. The contract covers um August early to August 6th or 8th, something like that through about the middle of June. So it'll cover basically when anytime school sports are running during the school year. Basically a 10-month contract. Yep. Um and you
023said full-time, but what does that technically mean as far as it's not 40 hours a week? No, full-time for what our what our need would be. So, yeah, that's I'm using the wrong terminology, but um I think that Terra had figured three to five hours per evening and then you're looking at um most of the time five nights a week and then some weekend obligations with attorneys or other things that we host. I don't believe they'd be traveling anywhere unless there was a special request that that was made that we needed a trainer for some, you know, I don't know, a large invitational or something where they needed extra assistance and it would be on our time that we'd send that trainer along specifically with our team. But typically, it's during uh practice and home
024events that that person would be working with kids. I'm having a hard time reading the fine print right now. I looked over it earlier, but um can you remind me would it be the same person or likely the same person most of the time? That's the impression that I get. Yes. Um I I I didn't read anywhere in the contract where it's guaranteed. What it is is that they're guaranteeing the services. So, um I think that's what they're looking for and that's ultimately uh where they want to go with it. But it's not guaranteed to be the same person every time. For clarification, this is for non um ail like club related, just school related. But if one of our clubs did want to have an athletic trainer, could they hire somebody from this place
025or use our trainer? What we would end up doing is likely making a contact at the time depend on circumstances. But I don't know if go for does like, hey, I I just need an AT for 4 hours one time. You know what I'm saying? Uh that'd be a question for them. I know in the contract we're not supposed to farm these people out to do different things. I don't know if it means we're having a local thing and that's our football team and we'd like you to be involved that's, you know, hosted by the booster club, for example. that may be allowable because it's still the school team, but what they're referring to arguably is like, yeah, well, we have an AT, let's set them over to, you know, let's have them do little
026league here or they can come out and do, you know what I'm saying? And part of that has to do with liability and their scope of practice and what basically what we're using them for. So, some of those nuance things, if there would be a need, we'd have to have a conversation with the company to make sure we're doing, you know, doing the right thing. Um, so I don't know that the answer to that is a definitive no. Okay. Um, but we'll have to make the call and get the answer to the question when the time comes. This isn't limited though just the high school. If a middle school kid rolls his ankle, he can go to he or she. Correct. My grand individual and try to hire them ourselves, we would pay a yeah
027a penalty. There's a $10,000 fee if you had hunt them. And so if we are going to separate from the contract and look to hire our own ET, there has to be a 60-day separation or something like that with the AT that's providing the services. So we just have to be mindful about when and how we do a posting if we're going to and then whether or not we're actually able to hire. If the at that is working through go for and we really like them and they really like us and they post it and they apply and it's within the 60-day window, we're going to pay them 10 grand if we hire them. So well within six months. Yeah. Even but yet even after the termination agreement within that next six months it's like
028right nonete discourages grabbing their individual but still allows for the possibility if you want to pay up it does do you think that's something that we would try to do next year I mean not necessarily this person but post it and see if you get issue is is it's not a full-time position. That's the issue. And I think like one of the reasons that um Tara and Mike and I thought about moving in this direction is the fact that we're not in the business of hiring athletic trainers, right? So, we don't have the the reach. Like for our posting, where would you put a posting? In the newspaper on Indeed, and then on weekend? Well, ATS aren't looking at weekend. Um, if we're lucky enough that they're reading the local newspaper and then apply, you
029got that option. And if you put anything on on deed, you know how that goes. Indeed, pardon me. It's crazy. It's crazy. It's crazy. Get spammed or something. Oh, you get It's wild. Yeah. Um, I don't know. You'll get a seasoned bus driver looking to be your next school psychologist or something like that. It's very interesting. Seasoned bus driver. What? Yeah. Reminder to help drive a bus. Yeah, bad example. Um because she's like, I'm all over that. Yeah, warehouse manager, but by the way, I'm really good with kids, so let me be an aer. You know what I mean? I don't know. It's odd. Well, you get on a need. But it would be Is it true that it'd be more cost effective to have our own hired in-house? Um or not necessarily. I think
030we'll be able to answer that question more definitively. you know, the average from um investigation and research prior, the average at pay is like 50 to 60,000 bucks a year. And then you're talking about a family package typically with insurance, that's usually the default that you're going to think at. So that's another 25,000. So I mean out the door, if you're hiring somebody that you're going to employ a full-time salary or full-time employment, it's going to cost around 80 85 grand a year. And so at 84 bucks an hour, I mean, we'll see. We'll see what that stacks up to be and I think that'll help us make a decision on whether or not we want to dip our toes in that water and sequence what we can find. Um yeah, because if we're paying
03120 grand or 30 grand more than we would if we hired a person, then I think it's almost a no-brainer. Then it's like, yeah, try to get the word out there and see what we can do. Are they flexible? like in the summertime when you like football first gets going you typically I don't I'm not trying to speak for the new coach or anything but have longer you know practices or maybe even two a days then you also got your volleyball I mean they could potentially be here all day for eight hours a day for you know that first few weeks but then obviously when school starts you're down to a few hours a night you know what I mean paid that same rate overtime is 126 an hour that's correct so there is an
032overtime rate, but there's I read somewhere in here that's if they break 40 hours though, correct? Yeah. And that you're saying that's unlikely. I wouldn't. Yeah. I wouldn't think so. You wouldn't want to even maybe do that like on a weekend tournament or something. You might say like, "Hey, why don't you back off your practice nights or something, right?" Or we have to. Yeah. You never know. It's going to be given given context. [Music] Um, I don't recall and I'm not finding it immediately. I don't think that there's a specific day hour limit that's outlined and I think most of what would be done is uh what's mutually agreed with the AT and because we are obligated to use the number of hours that we indicated we're going to contract for which makes a lot
033of sense. So, you know, twofold. We don't want to burn through all of those hours on the front end, but we also want to ensure that we're using uh the hours that we said we were going to use. Um, so I don't I don't know that we're going to be in a scenario too terribly frequently where this person's just here for eight hours, a whole day. I mean, it's conceivable, but then as Matt's indicating, we would draw back what they might be doing the rest of the week if that's possible. Um, so some of these things I don't honestly know the answer to until we start playing the game and see what happens. At 946 guaranteed hours, we're looking at a little under $80,000. Correct. Y. So if you over time, it's like the same
034price or a little bit less than fulltime. Right. So then, but you're also talking 40 hours a week versus we're probably looking at I'm going to say 20 to 30. Yeah. Yeah. I got you. Yeah. The normal 40 hours is about 2080 $280. Correct. So it's basically like halftime. That's another reason it's tough to piece people together. Why historically been able to do it through medical centers that can keep them busy otherwise. But it's a model that's no longer working for our medical, right? All right. Any uh other questions? All right, we'll move on to the food service pricing. Looking at an increase there, too. Yeah. So, what you see reflected in the supplemental materials is that um Amy Daler, food service director, is recommending a 10 cent per meal increase across the board. So,
035high school, middle school, elementary, and adult. um and the prices are reflected there. The rationale being um the potential impact of tariffs as well as they're planning on doing um two options for lunch uh districtwide. So at the elementary too and so there's a little bit of additional cost received in that. This does not impact little saints. So if they get approved from Yes. So if that's not on there either, there's no increase. So we would have to call We would have to talk to Amy about that, I guess. Were they paying the elementary rate before? No, because that No. Yeah. Different portions and depending on the age, the really little ones get like three bites of food. Yeah. And I didn't think about making sure it was on there. Do you want me to
036check with My guess is that that would be a 10-centent increase as well. Okay. You don't want to make a decision based on No. Which we can always bring back to the next. All right. That is the end of the committee meeting. I'll call the board meeting to order. We'll start with the pledge of allegiance. I aliance 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. Roll call. Matt Price here. Tasha Rager. Don Noki here. Ronnie Scheler here. Brent McCertie here. All right, we'll have the reading of the mission statement in the rules by Matt Rice. All right, the mission statement. The mission of the school district of St. Gray Falls is to provide a supportive
037student centered learning environment that cultivates character, fosters academic excellence, and embraces diversity. Uh the board meeting rules focus on the mission, vision statements of the district, come prepared, be respectful of others, and open accepting of ideas. actively participate. Avoid site conversations. Remember, board meetings are open form. Thank you, Matt. We'll start with principal comments. We'll start with you, Mr. Emma. All right. Um, last week the eighth grade went to Valley Fair for engineering day and enjoyed the park. Uh, the weather was perfect. And I just want to brag about our kids were great. We uh they had to come to a theater at 12:30, you know, like we didn't have them all grouped together. They were all there. They paid attention. They were interactive with the person. The group in front of me was driving
038me crazy. So, I just want to praise up our kiddos. They were they were awesome. And then afterwards, they rode rides and we ended the day in the bumper cars just laughing and giggling. It was just a really great trip with this eighth grade. Um, we're wrapping up the year today. We collected Chromebooks and cleaned out lockers. Well, first round of locker clean out. I think um some children couldn't carry all their bags home, so we will have more bags going home tomorrow. Um, tomorrow the fifth grade's going to the science museum and the eighth grade will have their eighth grade recognition at 2 o'clock in the auditorium here. And then Thursdays, our annual last day activities. The kids have a shortened schedule in the morning and then they'll either go to Wild Mountain bowling
039or have activities at school in the afternoon. And then looking a little bit ahead, we have good numbers for summer school and that starts June 9th. I'm really excited because um Mr. Zemp also got his hunter education certificate to teach it. So now we have Mr. Zemp and Mr. Ste are teaching at where that class was always like filling up right away. Well, now we can reach all those kiddos to make sure we have people out there safely hunting. And those two gentlemen are good good people to teach that class. Nope. They're we're going to have two separate classrooms. So, any questions for me? Well, um they didn't gang up on you. bumper cars. I was rather surprised at how many couldn't drive. Uh they were just sitting there like push the pedal and then
040the whole steering mechanism in a bumper car is different than normal. And I probably us teachers maybe got a little more joy out of it. Some of the students. All right. Very good. Sounds good. Miss Platt. Well, I sent you a pretty big update in the last email, so I'll just touch on a couple highlights. Um, the ES was recognized as a school of excellence by the Wisconsin Reading League. That was very exciting. Um, and uh, Mr. Borne and I were invited to speak, but neither of us can go. So, one of you guys wants to go, go to Green Bay, talk about our district. We had our third grade annual writer symposium that was amazing with Jonathan Ran, my best friend and best-selling author. He came and delighted the kiddos. Um, field trips everywhere.
041My gosh, have we been out and about. Uh, the middle school came over to the high school and did a great job getting the kids psyched about moving in the fifth fourth graders into moving to fifth grade and they visited the middle school and they're super excited. that their favorite thing is lockers. That's what they care about most, lockers. That's the most stress. Well, they are very very excited about lockers. Um, and then I just really I I want to celebrate the transportation department again because they are so they've done such an amazing job this year and I'm so proud of them. Um, today we had our our driver appreciation barbecue, delicious food and wonderful, wonderful people. And I just want to let you know that since December, and I was trying to even think
042before that, but then I my brain was just like done. I could only get to December, there have been zero complaints about drivers. And that as an elementary school principal, I can tell you the two things that I get complaints most about are food service and and transportation. Those are the things that loom large in elementary school parents' minds. So to not get any complaints probably was since October, but I could only be sure since um December. I'm I'm very proud of our team and we're very excited about next year. Good. You deserve some kudos for that, too. Um how is the staffing? I mean, terrific. Right now, every single driver is coming back. They're all topnotch. We have Kirk who can sub, which is amazing. And we have I think I mean honestly it's
043unreal. We have a plenty of trip drivers. We have plenty of subs. We are just doing great. I was going to ask the same thing with um all the field trips you mentioned. No, we have had we haven't had a problem since mid year since we closed all those gaps. We haven't had any problems getting everyone exactly where they need to be. You know, our driving crew is not a bunch of young people though, right? So, it's a constant need for I mean that's when Craig said he found that really strong bus driver that wanted to be the school psych. I was like, well, let's have him drive bus because and I know I shared with you and CC Craig as well, but um I'm getting a lot of feedback from the drivers about how
044um they feel respected and trusted and really appreciated this year. Yeah, we've I think the whole admin team has worked really hard to bring them in and have them feel a part of our team. And next year we have even bigger plans. Kirk is going to do some things to help families get to know drivers better. That's a good idea. All right. Thank you. I'm sorry. You already done? Oh, yeah. Craig, superintendent's comments. Yeah. So, I'll speak for both Mike and I since Mike are is not here. This evening's um graduation was Friday night at 7:00. Uh the gym of course was wall- to-wall people and it was fantastic. Uh top to bottom, front to back. Three different students uh had some uh commentary and some speeches that they gave which were all very well
045done. And uh they got to throw their hats this year. That apparently was a big deal. um between Mike and I, the executive decision was made to allow hat throwing. I didn't know that that was going to be so nicely received. But um so yeah, it was uh it was excellent. And um Mike had attended, I was chitchatting with him today, had attended a handful of graduation parties that he was invited to, and he said he had um multiple comments from grandparents and parents about how what a nice graduation ceremony that was and and how well it went. I'm also going to talk about last week there was a um tornado warning issued as kids were getting loading getting loaded on the buses here at the middle school and so uh as you well know
046I wasn't around that was actually two weeks ago wasn't Rita yeah I think so it was two weeks ago feels like one minute ago I was in Utah and I got a text from Rita there's a tornado warning should I pull kids off the buses to which I responded yes and then some subsequent uh communication back and forth. What uh I didn't get to witness but I'm not surprised by at all was the way that our students behave. So all of these elementary and middle school kids and the handful of high school kids uh that ride the buses are put in into the middle school gym area which is a tornado shelter and they're doing their thing. There were high school students and and older middle school students, middle school students in general that were
047talking with elementary kids, comforting elementary kids. There was kids that were here for practices that couldn't be at practice. So, they were in the gym and being with those kids. And everything that I had heard was about how awesome it went. What's not awesome is that then the buses were about 40 or 45 minutes late as the the tornado warning had passed. But um aside from that, it was fantastic. And um that kind of is the the piece that you see uh repeated on a regular basis here is the conduct of the students. Um and of course the staff if it wasn't for the staff members that I don't know that the kids would just do everything as as awesome as they as they do it, but um totally worth pointing out. It was fantastic.
048And um they're they're the tie there is what we saw too in graduation with the receptiveness of all of the kids that walked across the stage and the amount of cheers that they received and it wasn't awkward or or you know strange. It was wildly supportive of every kid that that walked across the stage. So it's just awesome. It feels really good. We set the weekend off on a great note and um yeah. So that's pretty much what I have. We're wrapping up the end of the school year, of course, and then we'll load it uh getting ready to to load up for summer school. Um I'm excited, ready for when the kids come back next year. Um there's a handful of seniors that I miss already because I got to mess with them every
049day and I don't see them, but I'll pick a new group next year and tease those kids. So, all right. So, when something like that happens with the buses, do you have to pull in teachers to kind of help stick it? So, it this time it happens. so quickly that really and we we learned a lot um dur but it happened so quickly that all I could do is get the drivers to say you got to get the kids off. And then um Daryl's team was they were just amazing. I mean it doesn't take a genius to see all the kids coming off the bus to know it's an e weather emergency when you know there's bad weather. But his team was just there just getting directing kids getting them where they needed to be.
050The drivers were all amazing and we did learn a couple lessons about quick communication that I think are that were really valuable. Really valuable lessons. Glad to hear that you did that. You know, did the lessons learned? Oh, yeah. We we did we've debriefed and and learned some lessons and I think there's still we have a um a couple things we're a couple things we're looking to tweak a little bit because um that quick communication is harder than you think it would be. Mhm. But that's why it was so great because you don't know until you're in that situation. So, we did learn and Emily and I have a an emergency quick cheat sheet card that we think is going to be helpful next time. But it was amazing. Daryl's team was amazing. Darl was
051amazing right there. Supportive and helpful is so appreciative. Um, it's really I got The bus drivers were awesome. They were worried about they didn't know where all their kids were and I'm like, "Well, they're in the building. We know that. And then even afterwards, they're checking them off, making sure they're all there, consoling kids that, you know, some of the littles were. It was scary, but they were, it was just a good community building experience. It really was. In the end, it was really positive, really amazing. And I do want to say because I'm the one because Craig wasn't there and so I sent out the information on um Power School and a phone call and a text and an email and I just got like at least it was more than a dozen parents
052just saying thank you. Your drivers were amazing. The kids they specifically a parent reached out to say tell the high school principal that the high school kids were so helpful. It was just really awesome but I hope it never happens again. Not at 3:35. Yeah. All right. Kudos to everybody then. Thank you. Uh board members related to training. Did anybody attend any trainings? Comments? All right. Public comments on any agenda items. All right. Uh no presentations or awards. We'll move on to the consent agenda. I'll take a motion to approve the consent agenda. I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Have a motion by Ronnie. I'll second. Second by Don. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. We move on to curriculum and policy. Uh
053and we talked about this last week. We want to vote on the date and location for Crown 2026. of April 25th, 2026 at the falls. I'll make a motion to approve prom for April 25th, 2026 at a motion by Ronnie. Second. Second by Matt. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed? Motion carries. Uh we'll move on to discuss and vote on the hiring of a candidate for middle school social studies teacher. Your candidate then Daryl can speak more to the process that the board would like to hear. But the candidate recommended is a gentleman by the name of Garrett Johnson. Yep. Um recent graduate from I want to Oaklair. I think he's the one from Oaklair. Um real dynamic young man. Um lives in Grant or grew up in Grantsburg. So,
054he's got some local ties. Did some wonderful stuff with his student teaching. So, I'm we're looking forward to that. The I had the eighth grade team and Mrs. Hayes and uh Mr. Zen in on the interviews and he was he was our number one. There was no doubt about it. Very good. Any questions? All right. I'll take a motion to vote on the hiring of Garrett Johnson as the middle school social studies teacher. I can make a motion to hire Garrett Johnson as the middle school social studies teacher. Motion by Don. I'll second. Second by Ronnie. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed? Motion carries. Next, we'll move on to hiring a middle school math teacher position. Uh, I'd like to bring forth Dan Campbell. Dan has been working in the
055middle school since beginning of second semester last year. Um, he fits so well in with that team. Um, the kids I go in, observe the class, the kids are learning. He brings in different ideas. He's taught before at the high school level. So, it's just kind of nice that he gets the whole perspective of, okay, this is where we're moving forward here. Um, but he also understands, well, this is where the kids are are at now. So, he will be an excellent addition to the team there. Very good. Make a motion to hire approve the hiring of Dan Campbell as a middle school math teacher. I'll make that motion. Motion by Matt. I'll second. Second by Don. Any further discussion. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Next we'll look at the
056hiring of the candidate for the full-time district substitute position. So that position was created by board action a handful of months ago. We've posted and subsequently interviewed a couple of people. Um the committee that was comprised of myself, Rita, Mike, and Brian uh settled on Carla Nelson. That's that person. She is coming to us from a private school in Toma where she taught for a year. Um so relatively recent grad, has a year under her belt. Carly Nelson. All right. I'll take a motion to hire Carly Nelson as the full-time district substitute. I'll make a motion to hire Carly Nelson as a full-time district substitute. Motion by Ronnie. Second. Second by Matt. Any further discussion? What's her undergrad? Yeah. Uh and health. Any other discussion or questions? All those in favor say I. I. I
057opposed. Motion carries. I forgot to say I blank out, I guess. All right, we'll move on to financial and uh last board meeting we looked at the proposal presented by Mr. Craig for the phone and bell paging systems updates. Um any I'll take a motion to approve that. I'll make a motion to approve the phone and bell paging systems proposal as presented. A motion by Ronnie. I'll second. Second by Don. Is there any further discussion? Do we need to do a roll call vote on this one? What's the D or 20, 1943? Uh, please. Roll call vote. Matt Rice. Yes, Milky. Yes, Ronnie Scheler. Yes, Brett Mccertie. Yes. All right. Next on the agenda is the open enrollment in and out applications for 2526. Again, that was what we looked at earlier in the committee
058meeting. And again, that was the just the new applications. I'll make a motion to approve the open enrollment in and open enrollment out applications for the 2526 school year as presented. A motion by Ronnie. I'll second. Second by Don. Any further discussion. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carried. Uh next to a vote on the addendum to the 2526 CISA shared services contract for the school psychologist services which we looked at earlier in the committee meeting too. I'll do that motion. We have a motion by Matt. I'll second by Don. Any further discussion? Hearing none. We'll do a roll call vote. Matt Praise, yes. Tishina Mer, Don Milky, yes. Ronnie Scheler, yes. Brent McCertie, yes. All right. Uh, moving down to the contract for the Go for Healthcare LLC for basically the
059athletic trainer services. We looked at that also in the committee meeting. I'll make a motion to approve the contract with Gopher Healthcare LLC for the athletic trainer services as presented. Second. I'll second motion by Ronnie and a second by Don. Any further discussion? Um, we'll have a roll call vote on that as well. Matt Bryce, yes. Reager, Don Milky, yes. Ronnie Scheler, yes. Brent Mccertie, yes. See any announcements? Okay. Upcoming events. again have got the eighth grade recognition tomorrow. I will be at that last day of school is the Thursday the 29th. All right. And our next board meeting will be June 10th. Uh again followed by the board um goal setting session. Um and again it's basically a discussion at that point. We typically will bring it back for approval at a later date
060and then uh if needed a June 24th meeting. All right, Matt, you want to discuss the rules of the meeting? Yes. Uh focused on the mission vision statements of the district came prepared respectful of others and open accepting of ideas participated voice side conversations and remembered board meetings are open forum. All right. Thank you. With that, I'll take a motion to adjurnn to executive close session pursuant to section 19.18 or 19.851c of Wisconsin statues. I'll make a motion to adjourn to executive session. Second. Motion by Don, the second by Ronnie. We'll take a roll call vote. Matt Rice, yes. Toshima. Don Milky, yes. Ronnie Scheler, yes. Brent Mccertie, yes. Thank you all. We are in close session.