001Okay, we should be streaming. All right, I'll call the committee portion of the meeting together. We'll start with the uh curriculum and instruction spotlight with uh Mr. Imhaw. I'm going to we're going to talk about the schedule change that we're going to do in the middle school. Get the teacher in me here. Going to pass these up. Can you please pass these out the rest of them? I'm going to try and do this sitting down, which is hard for me. I'm used to standing up and talking. Um, this past fall winter, uh, Mr. Borne and I spent a lot of time talking with staff about what changes we could do in the middle school that to help us move forward. And one of the big ones was moving back to a seven period day. We
002were a seven period day before CO and when CO happened we changed to a like a fourb block schedule day um just to help with the accommodations all of CO. So we've worked quite we've worked very hard this year building a seven period day at the middle school. It's particularly difficult because I rely on people from the high school and I rely on people from the elementary. So we we came up with this schedule for our seven period day. You'll see that there's for each group there's four core times and three specials times. Um the reason why we the middle school we feel that this will be beneficial for our kids is one the time isn't as long in in our core times. Um, instead of 88 minutes, it'll be 59. But we are also
003adding in extra different classes. We'll have a writing lab which will feed into English, which will be 40 minutes, 43 minutes long, which will basically bump our English time up more. Uh, this writing lab I'm excited about because Mr. Wandra, I don't know if you know all the work he does, but he worked with a large group of writing teachers from the state and they built a writing curriculum specifically for middle school. And when if you look on the website, there's a fifth grade curriculum, sixth, 7th, 8th. It's all scaffold. It all rolls together. It spirals together. And we're going to use that for that writing class that we're going to put in there. We decided to call it writing lab just for that. Um, another benefit of just having the almost shorter core times
004is is it's hard to keep a middle schooler's attention for 88 minutes. 59 is still quite long, but it's not 88. Um, let me look through here. Another big one I'm looking forward to or I think that will be very beneficial for the school is our special education kiddos. With only having four blocks, it's difficult to be able to get the special education teachers out of a pullout classroom and into a regular classroom to co-e. uh because you only have four opportunities and we may have to use all four of those blocks to just have pull out kids. Now with a seven block day, we can have, you know, uh let's say a pull out math class first period, but then second period, we can have the special education teacher go into the math room
005and and work with co-e with the regular education teacher with math. And then even in there, uh, we could have, what I see happening is maybe the special education teacher one day pulls the special ed kids out and works with them, but the next day the regular education teacher pulls that group of kids out and works with them because, you know, they're the content expert in there. Um, a big another big change and I have to thank Rita for this and I know she worked very hard at the elementary on this is my fifth and sixth graders have always had their specials in the morning like almost right away. And to me is key to learning especially with my littles, my fifth and sixth graders. Well, begging, pleading, twisting arms. Uh, we got it. So
006now we will have fifth and sixth grade have their specials at the end of the day. So we can hit up those core areas right away. Uh we used to have the seventh and eighth grade have their specials at the end of the day. They're all going to have a core class right away in the morning because once again my philosophy is let's get them right away in the morning and then we'll have our specials um second, third, and fourth period. And thanks to Mr. Wilson for that. Um, seventh and eighth grade, we're gonna next year they're going to have explore classes. We got away from explore when COVID happened. Um, but we we're going to get those back in where seventh and eighth graders will have tech, art, Spanish, egg, or base I think
007it's still called uh family and consumer education. Uh, just get back to some of those basics so they get a greater variety, a greater range of classes in the middle school. Um, Oh, uh, with the block and I know this was a concern of block when it first came into the high school, you know, like math. Do we have math all year long? Um, well, science and social studies now will all be year-long. An example is my seventh graders as sixth graders had science last fall. this fall they didn't and now they're having science again. So there was like a year gap just in science and social studies. This way we can keep up the momentum going in all classes throughout the whole year. So we're looking we're looking we're going to do a seven
008period day and I just want to make you aware of it. You have any questions for me? Is there any reason why the there's like four that are red on like where it says like elective five? Yep. Um that's because I'm Kelly Kirkow didn't give me a name when I made this. It's going to be healthy choices. She's going to do that. Chris Wander is doing that sixth grade elective. We've been talking back and forth. He almost wants to do a literature base, but I'm like, hold on a little bit here because we already have writing lab. We have English going on. Um, I would really like them to focus somewhat on executive function and just how to be a better student, but we're also trying to work that into some academic stuff. So, we're
009still working on that elective. That's why some of them are red. Any other questions? Um, I didn't really have a chance to look at page two. That is the teacher schedules. Okay. Hard to read. Well, there's a lot of them and well, there's there's a lot of moving parts in this this schedule because once again, I pull from the high school, I pull from the elementary, then I have my own people, and then high school pulls from us for Mr. Wandra and science and just to get them all organized and where to go. Lar sorry. Any other questions? All right. Thank you for sharing that. Do we vote on that next thing? there wouldn't be any action on behalf of the board on a schedule change that's under administrative purview. However, if you have significant
010concerns, I'd argue you should share them. But typically things like schedules and you know class assignments and those nuances are not voted on by the board. It's not necessary. All right. Well, thanks for letting us know what was coming. All right. We'll move on to curriculum and policy and talk about the to guide the policy 8:30 rule guidelines for public use of school facilities. Yeah. So, some internal conversations developed as a result of uh Kurt transitioning in the position that he's in, which has some purview over um facility rentals and and management as a result of community ed. Um and what you we found on policy um 830 rule was that it had reference uh custodial fees being uh charged but then it didn't include any specific language with respect to what those custodial fees
011were. So you see that on the second page and I'm noticing on the link here that we need to put a page break in there because fine arts center should start on its own page. But um so it simply states custodial services will be build at a rate of $50 per hour per custodian needed. And then the other change is just the word equipment was missing and that's written on the on the first page because it's the facility and equipment use form. Um so no big deal, just a miss. Uh what I was told is that the $50 per hour custodial fee was what was on a policy previous to this policy which for some reason it was excluded. just been thinking it was an oversight. Um the other circumstances around the policy are relevant
012and I don't see any need for changes. We reviewed it myself, Kirk, um other administrators, Tara, uh just to check it over. And so you don't see major modifications. But that also led to some conversation around um things like booster uh volleyball, booster basketball and clubs that use the facilities because of course if if it's during the school day or when um our schools are staffed with custodians uh even into the evening. So generally Monday through Friday, you know, not on holidays, that kind of thing. And an entity uses the facilities, they're clean as a normal course of the the evening duties of of whatever custodians are on duty. And so we do not charge for custodial fees. But there are times if we don't have school Saturdays and Sundays or potentially like you know
013spring break week or something like that that if an outside group was utilizing the school facilities we would have to pay a custodian to come in and you know be available because sometimes you a fire alarm could go off or um a water something happens with water or whatever cleanup needs to take place. We have that, but we also have getting the school back to the whatever they're using back to where it needs to be so that when kids arrive on the next school day, uh we're good to go. Um from what I was told, in some cases groups are charged for that spec custodial fees and in other cases they weren't. Um so I just wanted clarity from you guys with respect to what the normal approach and protocol would be. Keep in mind
014that we're the district itself um is not obligated to underwrite the cost of custodians for outside groups. If we do underwrite the cost for custodians for outside groups, that would come from fund 80, not from fund 10. So, it wouldn't have a significant impact on our ability to, you know, pay staff uh pay for benefits, fund programs, and and all of the things that we do as a school district. But of course there is a cost associated with that. Um when you have a circumstance too and part of the reason that it's not abundantly clear to me where you have a community group such as a a booster club group who uh is of course they're open to anyone. So you can have any student that's in from the community in booster club just like
015community ads. So that's not really the concern, but we recognize that the vast majority of the students involved in that are district students, right? And if they're in booster basketball, for example, and when they're done with booster basketball, they go into middle school basketball and the high school basketball, they are pretty much feeding our program. And most of the time the booster clubs that support uh our athletics, the various booster clubs support our athletic programs, you know, both financially and and also um with their own time and energy. So, is it like charging an entity that's going to end up providing a donation back in some capacity at some point in the future? You know what I mean? And it's not as though it's a group from Acyola that's using the gym. Um, and it's
016not as though it's uh some private entity that says, you know, I want to lease the space so that I can, you know, I don't know, do what? So I've seen it both ways with respect to programming that purely benefits like you know the majority of our community and students whose goal and intentions is not to generate dollars to you know pay themselves or you know I don't know what else you would do advertise you know things like this it's it's just about building programming and and so forth. Um, I've seen districts that would wave those costs for custodial fees because of course we can cover that cost out of fund 80. But I will let you know that I've also seen districts that are like, "No, if there's not a custodian on duty, they're
017paying because the school district or and or the taxpayers should not have to underwrite that cost because there wasn't uh necessarily consistency prior. And because Kirk's new, I want to ensure that we're doing exactly what your interpretation would be in terms of the school district and we will proceed accordingly. Like I said, I can see either way and it's not as though the booster clubs are knocking down uh thousands and thousands of dollars. And so it can be a financial hardship. for example, they might have to increase their fees to kids or or fees for teams to participate in a tournament they host to cover the cost. Because if you're talking two, you know, eight or 10 hour day uh days on a weekend, two gyms, two custodians, you're talking about quite a bit of
018money. That's not going to be cheap. And now for two would be 100 bucks an hour. And so you're looking at upwards of a,800,000 to make that happen. So um I'm not saying it's not achievable as I said you know it's it's happened before um in other districts but I also want to ensure that there's consistency and I think to articulate it better we would have to in the district go through a determinative process about what the nature and characteristic of the group is because I could see you know for example an outside group using um the fine art center is probably not a great example because it's it's a bit more nuanced But if a if a a theater group came in and leased the fine arts center and and were using it for
019putting on a you know a performance or practicing for a performance and you know maybe there's a St. Croy Falls kid or two involved but the majority of them are from Minnesota or something like that then arguably and it's on the weekend you're probably going to charge them the custodial fee. Clearly if it's a private entity they're going to be charged the fees to to make those happen. But if we have circumstances where it's community ed based or it's booster based and it's largely our own community's kids and programming that you know we are offering via community ed. It is a bit like charging a fee to end up getting the money back in some capacity anyway. Is there a clean way to put that into our policy? Yeah, that's part of the the rub
020and the nuance because I mean as soon as you get into, you know, u like a fraction or a percentage of people participating, then you can run a follow of what's required for community ed spending versus not. Um do all of our boosters run through community ed? Can we safely put that in the policy that our community ed programs? Um we probably could. I don't know that there's boosters that run outside of community ed. Are there Kirk? Do you know I know we're we'll discuss tomorrow um summer program booster versus normal booster um in our admin meeting and that may change a little bit. The community ed does have some for-profit groups that we bring in to do a class and so that class might benefit them. And while it it does have students from
021our area, um it's not solely a community ed program. It might be the local dance or a chef or something doing something like that and they're actually making money. So, I'm not sure how that would weigh out. A booster is typically community. So perhaps we can reference in our policy something along the lines of nonprofit community ed offerings. Yeah, could apply for something. I hate to leave it gray and then how are we picking and choosing and if we can clean up our policy to reflect what our intent is. Yeah, we just are going to have to figure out how to word it such that and I'm I don't know. I'm trying to on the spot think of scenarios. Um, you know, I don't know. Some person comes in and wants to offer a cooking
022class and and I I don't know anybody would do this, but you know, uses the the uh family and consumer sciences room and it's completely filthy and says, "Well, yeah, don't worry. I'll clean it up and we don't charge custodial fees." And lo and behold, now it's a it's a it's a nightmare going in there. So, I don't know. We'll have to I think what we'll do is we'll kick it around at the admin team meeting, too. Um, and try to nail down some different specifics so that we can lay it out. I mean, you also don't want to say it's only for athletic purposes, right? So, it's only booster groups, sports booster groups that have the custodial fees wave possibly. Um, so we'll see if we can put some some nuance to that. If
023you're broad and say nonprofit, well, there can be other community operating nonprofits that we don't think that should apply to. Um, not necessarily run through our community. Well, not necessarily run through community ad, maybe just leasing a facility out. So, we'll talk more about that and come up with something that we could hang our hats on as a car vouchure. Yeah, it might be hard to find nonprofit at that point because you could get you have to have a booster programs are going to have or just call it for profit because one of the questions was is club volleyball still wasn't that a business? No, it was a business right for profit. So the office of building perhaps for profit versus Yeah. Because uh it Yeah. It's like um using facilities to make money. I
024mean you're hosting stuff. Like if I start a carpentry business and somehow I make an arrangement to use our shop, I don't have to buy any of the tools. Yeah, I know. Like the booster basketball, they used to pay, didn't they? I mean, I'm pretty sure the girls did when they had to pay the $50. Yeah, it was that minimum fee for a weekend for a Saturday. But then like the Saturday morning ball type stuff, I'm sure that they did everything with that, right? Yeah. The the community gets a a portion a percentage of the the um fee that the kids would pay, the parents would pay, and part of it goes to the booster, part of it goes to community head, and that fee is supposed to take care of it. The biggest issue
025is a Saturday tournament where there's not a custodian on staff, and it requires like an all day ask. and then a volleyball tournament, the bill came up to $1,200 potential and that was just too much for them to run the tournament here. So in those scenarios, that's I think good for our district to have those schools in and those kids in and those families in. So would argue that we need to be careful we don't exclude ourselves from hosting tours cap on it or something. Well, yeah. And you don't I mean you don't want your booster involved programs to participate in everybody else's school districts and not your own. You know what I'm saying? So we'll see what we can do to find a you know a happy medium as it were to hopefully be
026as explicit as possible without locking us into some kookiness. But policies also are are made so that they can be modified. So if we do implement something and we find that our intentions are in fact incorrect then we'll modify the policy. Again I mean it's fairly easy to do. I just the part I struggled with was saying, "Yeah, you got to pay 1,200 bucks to have custodians and then knowing that, you know, the booster club might raise from doing that, from charging uh fees, entrance fees, and and ticket sales, for example, to come to the tournament might get, if they're lucky, two grand, you know, or 1,500, and then they're paying 1,200 in in custodial fees. So, do we have to pay for the bingo last year? We did. We paid custodial fees, uh, kitchen
027fee, something like that. Didn't mean to put you on the spot. I had to think about it. That would be for the star elevation. All right. Any other questions or comments? There's a middle ground also just like in your brainstorming [Music] cost four. So I know we're approving this tonight, this policy. Are you going to bring it back? Yeah. So you'll see it again on the 21st of April if we're ready. Otherwise, we'll just pause it until Hi, Doc. Sorry. Good to see you again. The next item is the board member to be on the health and wellness committee. Yeah. So, the school district uh first statute has to have a health and wellness committee. Typically, that's spearheaded by excuse me, the food service director. Um there's also a litany of other individuals including staff
028and parent reps and so forth that are um are invited to be on that um committee. And we do not have a board rep. Um I think I'm not 100% clear we have um whether it'll be a virtual meeting or an inerson or an in-person meeting and I'm guessing we can accommodate both. But once we have our a board member identified as an individual interested in being on the health and wellness committee, then what we'll do is get the the meeting scheduled for the year. That's an annual commitment. So every every year we have to do a meeting of the health and wellness committee. Uh and that discusses things like policy um items like uh not only what's going on in food service in terms of what we're you know feeding kids or not feeding
029kids but also more holistic health and wellness practices in the district in terms of you know activity and bike to work or bike to work bike to work or school um those sorts of things. So, it's kind of an all-encompassing committee, but I will also mention it's under as a result, it's it's a board derived committee. So, it will also be posted publicly posted that there would be that meeting taking place with a with a board rep on it. Um, and from that committee, there'll be recommendations made to the board primarily via policy. Um because as you probably realize most of what we do in terms of food service is governed by either the federal government or the state government in terms of portion sizes and you know allocations of various things and prices and
030you know almost everything under the sun. Um so all I'm looking for is somebody that said yeah I'm interested and we'll mark you down. It does not require any action. As long as we know that we have a board member that's interested we'll just loop you in. Um, do you have an idea of when they would intend to meet? Is this a before school kind of thing or? Um, well, we have not established a date yet. Um, you mean before school timewise or? Yes. Yeah. Like at 7 a.m. or 7:30? I would guess because there's a significant number of our own staff members that are going to be, excuse me, involved. So, I would think it'd be either before 8 a.m. or after 3:30 p.m. Yeah. My mornings are not my own. So, how many
031times did they meet? Um, we're only required to meet once per year. And so, we got to get one in here before the end of this school year. So, that'll be in the next month or two. Um, and then it's just whenever we get our act together, get the word out and make sure we got some content to go over with the committee. Anybody interested? I I would I would do it, but that would kind of speed up your timeline because I have a month or less that I could do it this year. But I'd be interested if there's nobody else that could come in. Well, the other thing that we can do as long as we know that you're the person that's willing to be the rep to Sheena, is you may miss the
032first meeting. That's not the end of the world. So, we have to have the opportunity and we have to have board involvement, but it's not it's not mandatory. You know what I'm saying? So, and I wouldn't recommend saying I'll be on a committee and then not not showing up. That's not where I'm going with this. But given the context, I think it would be perfectly acceptable. Like, you know, look, it's scheduled for whatever late April and I can't make it because of, you know, personal circumstances. That's totally fine. Yeah. Should we just do that? I am completely fine. If everybody else is fine, I will volunteer. Beautiful. We'll let the minutes reflect that Tasha Ranger has thusly volunteered. Just email me a date. Yeah, we'll Amy or I will be in touch. Sounds good. As
033we put it together, [Laughter] All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Tasha. Moving on, we're going to talk about the Where did that go? um the athletic trainer services. Yeah. So, um, you were looped in earlier in this school year with the fact, and I think you dealt with a little bit last year, too, um, that athletic training services have been hard to come by. And so far, what we've done this year is pieced it together with kind people like EMTs and, um, some other community representatives that have u various uh, preparations that make it reasonable for them to be serve as an athletic trainer. Uh, but we haven't had the kind of coverage that we've needed. Um, I I would never have an argument with anybody about the necessity of an athletic trainer
034because of course 10 years ago, 15 years ago, 20 years ago, no schools had athletic trainers. Now, um, it's kind of the default. And many school districts work with or contract with, whoever their local health care provider would be. In our case, um, St. Croy Health is, you know, right in our back door. Um, so that would be the first stop that I've spoken with uh locally. One of the pieces that I'll mention is prior to my arrival here and a little bit um of uh side conversations also have made it quite clear to me that we're probably not going to find athletic training services for example from Oyola Medical Center or from somebody across the river because we're just not the market they want to engage with if you know what I'm saying. So
035I'm not saying that St. Croy Health is our only option, but I'm thinking it's pretty much our only option. So, somebody could say, well, Mayo Clinic might be interested, but I I just I don't think so. We haven't talked with Mayo Clinic, but there's no real reason for them to engage. One of the reasons that the I mean, make no mistake about it, that hospitals, local hospitals engage is because at an event, they'll probably fly a you know, a banner or a flag or a you know what I'm saying? Like a I don't mean like a flag like a American flag. I mean like those you know St. Croy Health banner. I don't know what else you call them. Uh that sort of thing just to get some um recognition, some u marketing as it
036were. And then of course as they do their referrals and and talk with kids that some of that business may be directed to St. Croy Health, but they're under no obligation. So this is not like you're required to follow up with Scoy Health. It's just that first point of contact. Um, as it stands now in this day and age, whether we like it or not, um, there is, uh, daily contact almost with the athletic trainer, talking with Tara, um, our athletic trainer will find themselves busier on non-game nights than they do on game nights. Um, and with the amount of, uh, sports now that are offered, the amount of involvement that we have, it's a pretty pretty full plate. So this um trainer services contract is um laid out such that we would cover one
037half of the total package cost of this human being. However, we would have nine months of their services or arguably even 10 because uh football and and some of the early fall sports start typically by the second week of August. And then there are some things that could trail into June such as track if we have kids going to state and I think baseball, softball can trail into early June, too. So, we would have this individual on a full-time or near full-time basis for the duration of the school year and then during the summer and during um lower times because there are there's about a week or two weeks in between the close of the fall season and opening of the winter season depending upon how teams do and the same thing with winter you
038know folding in spring. So, there can be a little few weeks downtime during the school year but during that time that person would be working with St. Croy Health. So they would be doing um assisting with physical therapy and those things of that nature. Um so I worked with um Mike Yuso, the president and CEO, I'm not sure if he's president, he's the CEO of the of St. Croy Health um to work through and develop this contract. And that's what you see here before you. Um it is roughly 40,000 bucks because you're talking about a total package cost. However, um I have a significant degree of confidence that we'd be able to cover that cost out of fund 80 because of the nature of the athletic programs. So did so last year. So two years
039ago we must have been with OMC. Anybody remember? Has it been two years since we had one? I know this last I remember seeing OMC people. So you were at like state volleyball. That was three years ago. Yeah. I think um Jerry's just kind of been able she's got a relationship with um the OMC trainer that she would ask him to come cover for some of the tournaments and stuff but that was I don't even know got paid for any of that stuff but well and so there's something with availability. Yeah. like he's pretty busy. Well, the I guess my question is is the cost that we probably wasn't what we're going to be paying moving forward because we had you know Kurt filling in as EMG doc was doing it as a you know
040whatever. Correct. Right. Yeah. And according to Terara that's what they did last year too to fill some gaps. kind of on a as needed basis. And they did pay I know for a fact they paid the athletic trainer from Ocola Medical Center when he came for those services. Good. Well, it's nice to have somebody there. I know he was there a minute. Kid dislocated his knee and just left. I was up cooking dinner for the boys and they called me down. If I had been there, nobody would have been there. It's nice to have support here, you know, dislocations and stuff. And we would also have a seat at the table in terms of hiring, too. So, they don't have the staff yet? No. If this is approved, what we'll do is sign an agreement,
041then they'll post and fill the position. So, this would be for next year. Are they looking to do this at other schools like Unity? There was conversations about a possible shared position too, like between us and Unity and talking with um Tara and Terra speaking with their AD. Uh we would end up being in the same boat because you would only have roughly half of your things covered. And ironically, games and practices all occur at the same time. I mean, schools are on the same schedule. So having somebody halftime would mean we'd have to find somebody else for the other half of the time is really what it comes down to. So the same as what we're doing now, just a little less of a hassle. I was just thinking more along the lines of
042if for some reason this trainer is sick, has to miss a few days, you know, how if they don't have somebody to backfill. I mean, they may not anyway because they could be at another school. Yeah. I don't know how absent we've taught how to tape ankles and stuff. So like in football last year, you know, Grant and I, we would tape everybody and so that you know short term and same with wrestling just, you know, they call me down and tape if somebody wasn't there. So that's the big thing is of course if somebody gets a concussion, that's the big worry is that it's really nice to have somebody there. the concussion protocol and to do the evaluation right away and make sure that they get the care that they need. Do you remember
043anybody remember what the agreement was before? Was it half and half like five years ago when we were before co I guess with well St. used to have like a different trainer that did us did unity and a different one that did block and one that did s I don't remember what I was told the answer is no there wasn't half and half it was like I think a base fee that was paid yeah then there was the advertising and some kind of stuff was incorporated if I remember right and that frankly has been is the status quo that's what we had in rapids and I think that's what's going on in Oyola. I don't know that for a fact but he's been there a long time. And we noticed the agreement because it's a
044halftime position. They mentioned 20 hours per week, not to exceed 20 hours per week. Is that concerning or is that what you expected? Uh, well, the conversation was around that we have them full-time during the school year. Um, is 20 hours a week full time? I mean, I know it's it's not, but how close is it to covering all our games and practices? Well, you're going to be close to getting there because if you figure on a normal evening, practices start, say, 3:30, 3:45, they're going to be wrapped up by 7, 8:00, right? Usually, give or take. And then you throw game nights in there and those of course traveling. Usually our trainer doesn't only only home. Yep. Yeah. We rely on the other schools. I suppose the 20 to me seems kind of short.
045I wonder if we can get They have one wrestling tournament on a Saturday right there. So maybe that can be renegotiated maybe 30 hours during this active season. I'll make sure that the that it's clear that we have the time we need based on this during the school year and athletic seasons. Breeze through this. I didn't see $20 in there. I saw it somewhere. I'm not finding right now. It doesn't seem that much of this 40. It says providers total service shall not exceed 20 hours per week inclusive of student contact days and home game coverage. Yeah, I'll talk about that. So, it's we'll get that rectified. Any other questions or comments? Maybe we're not holding on to come back. You got it. All right. Hearing none, we will move on to the board meeting.
046I'll call the board meeting to order. We'll start with the uh 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. Vote. Matt Bryce here. Tasha Rager here. Steve Bont here. Ronnie Scheler here. Brett Mccertie here. All right. Uh Ronnie, would you mind reading the mission statement of the rules? The mission of the school district of St. Croy Falls is to provide a supportive student centered learning environment that cultivates character, fosters academic excellence, and embraces diversity. Board meeting rules will focus on the mission and vision statements of the district. Come prepared. Be respectful of others and open and accept ideas. Actively participate. Avoid side conversations. And remember our board meetings
047are open forum. All right. Thank you. I don't think we have any public speaking. So we'll move on to presentations and awards. We have a award for Dr. Stevens bot from the WSB even for all the dedicated years to the school district 2013 to 25. Wow. [Applause] Thank you, Doc. Been an honor to be on the board. 12 years. We want a nice picture of that, you guys. Do we want a nice picture? I got some Oh, you you got I got quick snaps, not nice pictures. Since they're both standing there. Yeah. Well, you're going to get right in their face. No, not too close. You guys are back. There we go. You were on prior to that too, right? Yeah. Did you have to give that plaque back then? All right, moving on. Thank
048you very much for all your years, doc. Um, curriculum and policy. We're going to review and vote on increasing the teacher substitute pay to 70% of base salary beginning with the 2526 school year. Now that's what we talked about uh at the last meeting. Um if not here any other discussion if not I'll take a motion to to approve it. [Applause] I'll make the motion to increase the teacher substitute pay to 70% of base salary being the 25 26 year. We have a motion by Steve second by Matt. Is there any further discussion? We need to roll call this. [Music] Um, well, if you look at it maybe as a whole, you should, but yes, no reason not to. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think it's required, but it doesn't hurt. Matt Ray, yes. Tasha Rager,
049yes. Steve, yes. Ronnie Scheler, yes. Brent Mccertie, yes. All right, moving on. We'll vote on the full-time district substitute position to begin in the 2526 school year. Again, that is something else that we talked about last month. [Music] I'll make a motion to um approve a district substitute position full-time beginning in the 2526 school year. A motion by Ronnie. I'll second by Tasha. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carried. Uh the next one will be the vote on the hiring of a candidate for the head football coach. And the name recommended is Dustin Vickerman. Dustin Vickerman. All right. So, we'll take a motion to hire Dustin Vickerman as the head football coach. I'll go ahead and um make that motion for the hiring of Dustin Vickerman for the head
050football coach position. All right, we have a motion by Tasha. I'll second it. Second by Steve. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I opposed. Motion carries. All right. Now we look at the the resignation of Jonathan Brashik, the basically the band teacher, instrumental music teacher. The resignation was in the packet. We'll make a motion to accept the resignation of Jonathan Brash. He's our instrumental music teacher. The motion by Ronnie. Second. A second by Matt. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I opposed. Motion carries. Uh amen. The next is the resignation of Bethra. I pronounce that right. The fourth grade teacher. Capital. It's an I. Oh, makes sense. It's not a lowerase L. That's the first letter. You got it. Beth Eafra, I'll take a motion. I'll make that motion
051to accept the resignation of Beth Eafra, grade four teacher. All right, we have a motion by Tashida. I'll second that. Second by Ronnie. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I opposed. Motion carries. All right, moving on to upcoming events. The next uh oh we have an announcement. Um this is with sincere thanks. Your kindness and concern have meant so very much and will always be remembered. Family of Betty. All right. All right. Now we'll move on to upcoming events. Remember our next meeting is Monday, April 21st at 5:15. I will not be at that one. It's dangerous. would vote on it. I think they've already been elected. Oh, behave yourself. Welcome back, Madam President. So, illbe the next meeting will be May 13th. Uh May 27th, uh will be the second meeting
052in May. Just other thing to keep thinking about, there'll be a lot of events coming up in May, graduation, scholarship nights, uh you know, all that kind of stuff. We should be looking at board representation at those things. Uh once we get some maybe next week we can get some dates out. Eighth grade recognition. Eighth grade recognition. We'll make sure we get dates to Yeah. So we can start planning on that stuff. And can I stop you there for a second? So for the month of May, is it appropriate to say that I will probably be out the full month of May even though we don't have maternity leave for school board, but I just wanted to make that statement that I probably need to be out the full month of May. Makes sense. Okay.
053But then June, we're scheduled for two two meetings as well. And that's a typo. So, it should say the 24th, not going to say that's pretty close together. All right, Ryan, you want to discuss the rules? I do. Looks like we were well behaved. We focused. We were prepared, respectful, participating, avoiding signing conversations. Well done. All right. With that, I'll take a motion to adjourn to executive code session pursuant to section 19.18 or 19.851c of Wisconsin statutes. Motion by Steve. I'll second. Second by Tasha. We'll do a roll call vote. Matt Rice, yes. Tasha Rager, yes. Steve Bunt, yes. Ronnie Scheler, yes. Rat Mccertie, yes. Here we are in close session. Congratulations, Todd.