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Good evening, it is six o'clock, I am calling to order the regular board meeting.

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Of Tuesday, August 18th, Mrs. Schope, may we have a roll call, please.

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Yes.

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Carol Fox.

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Here.

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Tom Hankins.

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Here.

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Bill Johnson.

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Here.

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Meghan Miller.

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Present.

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Joanne Ruhl.

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Here.

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Ann Schuch.

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Here.

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And Tia Johnson.

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Here.

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All members are present.

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Thank you.

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Can I get an approval of the agenda and I am requesting with this that we move item six K as in kayak to six A and move everything else just down. And the reason for that is this is we have a guest that is in person tonight and rather than keeping people waiting.

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People waiting, then we can have that person beat early on.

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Second.

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Is that emotional?

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I'll move that.

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Sure.

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I'll move.

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I'll second.

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Motion by Megan Miller, seconded by Tom Hankins.

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Mrs. Schope, did you get that?

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I just need to know where you were moving it to.

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We're moving it to the top of the board action discussion items.

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Okay.

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Should letter A.

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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Any other questions or comments?

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All in favor?

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Aye.

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Aye.

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Aye.

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Aye.

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Any opposed?

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Motion carries unanimously.

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Would anyone like to lead us tonight in the Pledge of Allegiance?

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Oh, Dan, please.

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Board Member Schoof.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for

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which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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Thank you, Mr. Schoof.

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Good evening and thank you for joining us tonight and for your continued interest in

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and support of the school district of Bloy.

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Since our last regular board meeting on July 21st, the board and administration have been

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busy preparing for the rapidly approaching start of the school year.

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Board members continue to participate in district and community activities and remain

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engaged in planning for the future of our district.

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The board was invited to attend the graduation ceremony for the Bloy Memorial Summer School.

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This year, five students completed their requirements and graduated.

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It was wonderful to see their families and district staff come together to celebrate this

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important achievement.

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We congratulate these students and wish them every success as they take their next steps.

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Board members were also invited to attend the second Harvest Food Bank Roundtable held

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last Thursday at the Bloy Public Library.

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Vice President Fox and I attended the meeting where several local and regional food service

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organizations discussed ways to improve the process and efficiency of getting food from

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organizations to the people who need it.

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It is heartening to see so many individuals and organizations working together to support

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the health and well-being of our neighbors and especially our students.

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The school district of Bloy provides breakfast and lunch to all students.

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However, we recognize that some of our students and families may need additional support with

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food during weekends, holidays and other times when meals are not available.

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The Board of Education is grateful to the many community partners who are working to help

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meet this need and strengthen the support network available to our families.

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The Board also has been meeting every Monday primarily to discuss a potential referendum

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and long-range planning for the district.

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These conversations are important as we consider both our immediate financial challenges

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and the long-term sustainability of the school district of Bloy.

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Yesterday the governance committee met and discussed several items including the current

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Board meeting cadence, superintendent evaluation tools and the timeline for establishing district

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goals.

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The committee also discussed a proposal to add two positions to policy 143, official board

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representatives.

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The positions being a City of Bloy governmental representative and a Rock County government

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representative.

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The intent of these positions would be to help the Board stay informed about current issues

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and proposed actions that could affect the school district while also creating opportunities

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for collaboration and partnerships.

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These representatives would not serve on the City Council or the Rock County Board of Supervisors.

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Rather, they would serve as liaisons between the Board of Education and those governmental

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communities helping strengthen communication and coordination between our organizations.

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Finally, Board members are invited to attend the Wisconsin Association of School Boards

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Fall Regional Meeting.

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Our region, region 13, will meet on Tuesday, October 27th.

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There is also an optional pre-meeting workshop, Wisconsin's Open Meeting Laws, Understanding

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and Navigating Closed Session.

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This should be a valuable opportunity for Board members to strengthen our understanding

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and our responsibilities under Wisconsin's Open Meetings Laws.

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As we approach the start of another school year, I appreciate the continued work of our

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Board, our administrators, staff, families and community partners.

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Together, we are making steady progress and continuing to build momentum for our students

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and our community.

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That concludes my report.

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Thank you.

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Next, we have upcoming events and announcements, Board Clerk Miller.

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Thank you so much.

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Good evening.

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So these are the announcements for Tuesday, August 18th on August 21st.

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Jacobson Field will be officially renamed Jacobson Field at Heineke Stadium.

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This dedication is in honor of Bloitte Memorial High School's legendary head football coach,

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John Heineke, and will take place at halftime of Bloitte's non-conference season opener

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this Friday.

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There is also a back-to-school tailgate from 4 to 6 p.m., and kickoff is at 7 p.m.

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The 2026-2027 school year will begin on September 1st, 4 grades 4k, kindergarten, 6 and 9,

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and on September 2nd for all other grades.

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The reason for this is so the kids have a day to get acclimated, just FYI.

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All students must be registered before they start.

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Registration is now available through Skyward Family Access.

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Any parent needing assistance may contact the attending school or call the Central Enrollment Office

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at 608-361-4171.

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It says we are excited to announce that Bloitte Memorial High School

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and the Southern Lakes Conference will have partnered with Bound,

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a comprehensive athletic activities and facilities management platform

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that will serve as your one-stop resource for everything athletics.

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There is a hyperlinked thingy attached, which I believe is uploaded to board docs,

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so you can click on it, but I can't click on it while I'm talking.

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The district website serves as a resource for all other areas, so you can visit us at our website.

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The meetings that are coming up and being held here at the Colac Education Center include

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Monday, August 31st.

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There's a policy meeting at 3 p.m. Tuesday, September 1st.

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There is a Business Operations Finance and HR meeting at 5 p.m.

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And the Teaching Learning Equity and People Services Committee meeting is scheduled to start at 5.30

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or immediately following the 5 p.m. meeting, whichever is later.

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Lastly, Tuesday, September 15th will be our next regular board meeting, which will begin at 6 p.m.,

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and this concludes the announcements for tonight.

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Thank you, Board Clerk Miller.

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Next, we have recognitions.

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Tonight, we are honored to have Community Action Incorporated here to receive a recognition.

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The purpose of recognitions are to recognize and honor staff, students, community members,

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and partners for their outstanding achievement goals or service.

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Tonight, we would like to thank Community Action for being a great partner in the annual Community Health Fair at Bloyant Memorial High School.

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This year, unfortunately, I was out of town, so I was not able to attend, so I'm going to turn this over to Superintendent Dr. Gordon

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to share with us her experience and the recognition.

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All right, tonight, we are proud to recognize Lexi Tintleman and the Community Action Group as a whole.

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They put on an amazing health fair for us this year in partnership with the School District of Bloyant.

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I think this was our fourth year, right?

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And I think it was the best year yet.

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It was so organized, well attended, even though it was pouring rain for the majority of the morning, people stood out in line.

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It was huge.

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So many fun activities for our families.

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Just, it was a great morning for everybody.

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We had, like, backpacks were amazing.

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Kids were waiting for the bounce house.

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Free haircuts.

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It was just, it was a truly amazing event, so I appreciate all of the work that you put into that.

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Our school board appreciates that.

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Our school district appreciates that, and it's just such a great partnership that we have with you, and we truly appreciate the collaborative effort in working with you and your organization.

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And we look forward to continuing that partnership with you, so thank you so much.

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Thank you very much.

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This gentleman, there's a microphone there if you would like to say anything.

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We'd love to hear from you as well.

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Thank you for attending.

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Good evening, everybody.

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Thank you so much for this recognition.

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I would like to highlight that I also have Andrew Gohner with me.

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He has been a rock star, ensuring that everything runs smoothly, so I deeply appreciate him and all of our committee members.

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On behalf of the entire Back to School Community Health Fair Committee, I just wanted to say my sincere thank you for this recognition tonight.

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It is truly an honor, and I'm grateful to accept on behalf of the organizations, volunteers, businesses, foundations, community members,

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and the partners who helped to make the event possible.

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This Back to School Community Health Fair was created with a simple goal.

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It's to ensure that families can begin the school year with their resources, support, and the confidence that they need to succeed.

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Thanks to the incredible community-wide effort, we were able to provide the event for completely free to the families in need.

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This year's event exceeded expectations, so we did distribute just under a thousand backpacks filled with school supplies to students preparing for the new school year.

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Nearly 30 vendors also joined us to share valuable education, health, and community resources to families.

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Local officials, including the Deloitte City Manager, State Senator Mark Spritzer, and State Representative Clinton Anderson,

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attended to show their support.

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In addition to the school supplies, we were proud to provide direct services to improve those barriers to children.

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We received more, we gave out more than 70 haircuts to children and families that day.

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We also provided important health services, including dental, vision, and mental health screenings.

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The day also featured food, games, and friendly activities with live performances.

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One of the most encouraging outcomes was seeing that families across all regions participated.

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So I did want to highlight while many attendees were from the school district of Beloitte.

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We also welcomed participants from Janesville, Whitewater, Clinton, South Beloitte, or Fredville, Rockford, Rockton, Milwaukee, Green Bay, Lincoln Academy,

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Rising Phoenix, and several other communities.

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So it's not just Beloitte-wide, we are helping several other communities within our region every year.

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And we've succeeded and grown so over the year we track this data, and we are excited to always share that we have more every year.

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This level of participation demonstrates both the need of these services and the power of the community collaboration that is shown each year.

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Events like these are important, and they all happen because of organizations willing to work together for a common goal.

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I guess at about 30 organizations we're in attendance this year, and I would just like to extend a special thank you to the school district

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for their continued partnership and support for every year.

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The commitment goes for way far beyond just the classroom and your willingness to collaborate with us,

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so making sure that we can strengthen the community efforts.

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With that being said, thank you again for this recognition partnership, and thank you for the wonderful time of being here tonight.

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Thank you.

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Thank you so much.

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We so appreciate working with the community action and all of the good things that they are doing.

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Apparently not just for us, but for people in Green Bay.

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That's awesome.

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Thank you.

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Next up we have public comment.

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Are there any public comments tonight?

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Okay, and do you know if we have any online public comments?

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There were no e-mails.

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Okay.

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Short, sweet.

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Good evening.

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Oh.

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Are you the public comment?

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I am.

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Oh, okay.

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I need to read this before you.

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Oh, okay.

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Just jump.

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Members of the public are welcome to attend all open meetings of the Board of Education.

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Individuals attending board meetings are expected to conduct themselves in a respectful and courteous manner that models appropriate behavior for our students.

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Individuals wishing to comment are expected to comply with the norms found on the back of your comment cards and in board policy 187 public participation at board meetings.

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We ask that each of you contribute to maintaining a respectful and orderly meeting and prevent discussing confidential matters in a public forum by following these norms for public comments during board meetings.

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Thank you for your participation and courtesy.

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Lisa?

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No.

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Sorry.

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Good evening.

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It's been a bit nice to see you all.

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One of the commitments that we made when we embarked on this journey to do this pilot project with you was that our team would try to assist in helping the community understand the work that was being done.

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So I'm here to share with you all and community members that might be watching my appreciation to the teams at Gaston and Converse for the work that they've been doing.

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To the principals at both schools, Benji Klet and Fonda Lewis.

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Thank you.

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Both leaders as well as their leadership teams have been working closely with Michael Sonbert throughout the summer to position themselves to implement the skyrocket model at the start of the school year.

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The work is behind the scenes and could go largely unnoticed.

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My goal tonight is to make sure that it doesn't.

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To the staff at both schools who spent last week, all of last week, working very hard a week of their summer immersed in skyrocket training.

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Thank you.

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Thank you for showing up for being open, vulnerable and courageous.

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Your willingness to lean in was nothing short of inspirational.

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My goal.

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I know there's a long road in front of us, but I ended last week very hopeful.

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To Dr. Gordon and Ryan Stengel, thank you for your leadership and your openness.

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We're building a strong partnership as the backbone of this work.

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We know how much you have on your plate, so truly appreciate you making room for this work as well.

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To the BEA, thank you for your willingness to meet with us both prior to and after the training last week in order to structure a proactive partnership.

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It matters.

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I clearly recognize this is a marathon, not a sprint, and we are just getting started, but to the community.

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I want you to know that there are teams in these schools working very hard to improve outcomes for kids.

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Please give them your support.

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Thank you.

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Next up is the superintendent report.

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All right.

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Good evening, board president and members of the board.

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As we prepare to begin another school year, I want to take a few moments tonight to share an update on the work taking place across the district and more importantly, the work that lies ahead.

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There is a great deal happening at once, but much of it is connected by one central focus preparing the school district of a light for a strong start to the school year.

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While also thoughtfully planning for a sustainable and successful future.

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One of the most important areas of focus continues to be on our long range planning.

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As we have discussed, the district is facing significant financial challenges, declining enrollment, and the need to right size our operations and facilities to better reflect the number of students we serve.

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At the same time, we have an opportunity to think intentionally about what we want the future of the school district to look like.

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Over the past several weeks, I have appreciated the opportunity to meet individually with board members to hear your perspectives and ideas.

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These conversations have been extremely valuable.

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Each board member brings a unique perspective, but there are also common themes emerging around the importance of creating a district that is financially sustainable, provides high quality learning environments and gives our students and families reasons to choose the school district of a light.

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The conversations have included thoughts about our facilities, programming, enrollment, and the possibilities surrounding a future referendum.

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We are beginning to take those individual ideas and identify areas of alignment that can help guide our long range planning.

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This work will not be easy, and there will be difficult decisions ahead.

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However, I believe it is important that we approach this work thoughtfully, transparently, and with a clear focus on what is best for students and the long term health of our district.

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Facilities and financial planning continue to be an important part of this work.

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We are awaiting the closing on the sale of right, and we will continue to monitor the financial impact and opportunities associated with the transition.

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In addition, Stephanie and I will be meeting with Mike Marquette to begin looking more closely at the financial numbers associated with Colac.

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And as we consider the future footprint of the district, we need to have a clear understanding of our assets, our costs, and the financial implications of maintaining, consolidating, selling, or repurposing facilities.

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These conversations are part of a much larger picture.

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We cannot separate our facilities decisions from our financial realities, our enrollment trends, or our educational vision.

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All of these pieces must come together as we develop our responsible long range plan.

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Our goal should be to create a district that is appropriately sized, financially sustainable, and capable of providing our students with the programs, opportunities, and learning environments they deserve.

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Last week, we also continued important work directly in our schools.

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Michael from Skyrockett spent time working with the staffs at Gaston and Converse.

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The focus of this work was on strengthening the foundational routines, procedures, systems, and expectations that are necessary to create consistent and sustainable learning environments.

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A major component of that work centered around identifying what must be non-negotiable.

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Strong schools are built on consistent expectations, not only for students, but also for the adults who serve them.

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The feedback from staff was very positive.

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Many shared that they were excited about the work and described it as an opportunity to go back to basics, while also raising expectations for both staff and students.

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I believe this work is important because before we can build upon excellence, we must first ensure that our foundation is strong.

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Clear routines, consistent systems, and high expectations create the conditions that allow teaching and learning to thrive.

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I am appreciative of the staffs at Gaston and Converse for their engagement and willingness to embrace this work.

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This week, we are welcoming our new members of the School District of Delight family through our new staff orientation.

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This is always an exciting time because we have the opportunity to welcome new teachers and staff members who have chosen Delight as a place where they want to begin or to continue their professional journey.

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During orientation, our new staff will have the opportunity to meet key district leaders and staff, learn about district expectations, and begin building the relationships that will support them throughout the year.

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As we welcome new employees, it is also important that we remember the orientation is about more than providing information.

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It is our opportunity to communicate who we are, what we value, and what it means to serve the students and families of the School District of Delight.

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We want every new staff member to understand that they are joining a district that is committed to our students, committed to continuous improvement, and committed to working together to create the best possible outcomes for every child.

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This Friday will also be a special moment for our district and our community as we come together for the dedication honoring Coach Heineke.

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The dedication is an opportunity to recognize an individual whose contributions have made a lasting impact and celebrate an important part of the history and tradition of our School District.

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The evening will also mark the beginning of the 2026 Beloit Memorial High School season.

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Events like these remind us of the importance of schools beyond the classroom.

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Our schools bring together students, families, alumni, staff, and community members.

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They create traditions, memories, pride, and a sense of belonging.

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I look forward to seeing our Purple Night community come together on Friday evening to celebrate this dedication and to support our students as they begin our season.

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Finally, across the district, there is tremendous amount of work taking place to prepare for the opening of school.

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Our administrators, teachers, custodians, secretaries, support staff, and district departments are all working to ensure that our buildings are ready for classrooms, and our classrooms are prepared, and our staff members have what they need for a successful start.

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There are countless details involved in opening a school year, and much of that work happens behind the scenes.

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Buildings are being cleaned and prepared, classrooms are being organized, schedules are being finalized, staff members are participating in training and professional learning,

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systems and procedures are being reviewed.

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This work is a reminder that opening a school year is truly a district-wide effort.

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As we move closer to welcoming our students back, I want to thank everyone who has worked throughout the summer to prepare for their arrival.

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The start of a new school year brings energy, excitement, and a renewed sense of purpose.

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While we have significant work ahead of us related to our long-range future, our financial sustainability and the configuration of our district,

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we must also remain focused on the students who will walk through the doors in the coming days.

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They deserve our very best, not only as we plan for tomorrow, but every single day in the classrooms, schools, and programs we operate today.

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I'm looking forward to the year ahead and continuing the important work of building a stronger, more sustainable, and student-centered school district of LA. Thank you.

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Thank you, Dr. Gordon. Next, we have the Policy Committee report, Policy Chair Foxx.

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Thank you. The Policy Committee has been busy, and we're getting busier.

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We met on Monday, August 3rd, and we reviewed several policies.

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We spent the majority of our time discussing and revising the policy regarding student use of personal electronic devices.

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i.e. cell phones and other devices.

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That policy was approved to move to the full board for the first reading, and that is on the agenda for this evening, and will be discussed later.

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Two policies, one regarding the requests of funds directly from the board, and one about student-adult boundaries were discussed,

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but the committee requested that Ms. Elwood and Ms. Almonderes do some further work on these.

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Those came back to our next meeting, which was yesterday, Monday, August 17th at 3 o'clock.

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Ms. Almonderes presented her work on Policy 528, the Adult Student Boundaries, and she has worked on 528 and added a 528.1 rules to coordinate with that.

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That was passed from committee to a first reading of the full board, which will come up sometime in the future.

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Ms. Elwoode presented policies 623 as the best place to put the additional statement about requesting funds from the board,

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and she made a couple of other minor adjustments to that policy.

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We also approved that policy to come to a first reading to the board.

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Our next meeting will be on Monday, August 31st.

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It's a little adjustment of the calendar so that the policy meeting and the other board meetings are on the same week.

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So, thank you.

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Thank you, Policy Chair Foxx.

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Next, we have Business Operations, Finance, and Human Resources Committee Report.

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Chair Hinkins.

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Thank you so much.

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At that last meeting, I was on vacation and we had a little technological issue getting my Wi-Fi to coincide up here.

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So, I asked my Vice Chair, Dan Shuf, to handle the meeting, so I'll ask him to do the report tonight.

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Thank you.

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Yep.

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So, I chaired the Business Operations Finance HR meeting on August 4th.

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Stephanie's End of Year Finance Report was we will take that up next time.

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The end of the year closing in a normal way takes a couple more weeks, so at our next meeting we'll take up the monthly finances and the end of the year close out.

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Dr. Gordon, let us on a discussion of we're going to schedule some building walkthroughs.

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And once the semester gets underway, I get a chance to welcome and community members to our buildings, some sort of open house.

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Please stay tuned, we're working on that.

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We also got our first briefing on a phone system issue that's coming up, the VoIP phone system.

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We're going to hear more in upcoming meetings and Stephanie and her team are working hard to try to minimize that expensive possible, but at some point we need an operating phone system that's supported by the vendors for safety and normal use.

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So, we'll hear more of that in the future.

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We also move forward a purchase for our Blackboard communications platform that'll come up today.

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And we also, of course, reviewed the personnel recommendations exhibit A, which is on the calendar today for everyone to see.

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And that's my report. So, thank you.

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Thank you, Vice Chair Shuf.

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Next, we have Teaching Learning Equity and Pupil Services.

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Chair Roo.

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Yes, thank you.

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So, the Teaching Learning and Equity Committee met last Tuesday.

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We discussed several important areas related to student support and instructional practices.

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We discussed using grant funding to add positions that will directly support students and staff.

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Proposed positions include two positions to support staff in addressing appropriate school behaviors and student needs.

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Pair of professionals to provide additional support for early literacy and reestablishing the district's Teaching Intern Program, which was in place for many years.

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And the Teaching Intern Program is especially meaningful to me because I participated in it many years ago.

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I saw firsthand how it provided valuable classroom experience while helping Beloit develop, recruit, and retain talented instructors.

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Reestablishing this program would be a positive investment in both our future teachers and our district.

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As we continue to learn more about technology and how it affects our children, the district is taking a thoughtful, age-appropriate approach and setting clear limits on technology use in our classrooms.

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Students will continue to engage in hands-on developmentally appropriate learning, including reading physical books, practicing writing, using paper and pencils,

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and building mathematical understanding through the use of manipulatives and other hands-on activities.

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Technology will be used as a tool to enhance learning rather than replace these important foundational experiences.

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This looks like 4K having no devices at all.

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5K through second grade technology will be limited to foundational skills, including IXL, tutoring through open literacy and keyboarding practice beginning in second grade.

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Use will be limited to 30 minutes or less per day.

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Third through fifth grade students will continue these activities and begin using library databases for research,

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as well as technology for some formative and summative assessments.

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Use will be limited to 60 minutes per day or less.

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At the elementary level, there are no digital worksheets.

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For middle school students begin transitioning toward greater responsibility for their tech use.

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Devices may be used for up to 100 minutes across all curricular areas.

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In high school students will have greater access and responsibility with taking at their devices home.

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Devices will be sent home only in high school.

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Middle school and high school students will not have any access to non-educational platforms.

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So this approach allows us to use technology when it genuinely supports learning while preserving the importance of books,

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handwriting, hands-on mathematics, face-to-face instruction, and other developmentally appropriate learning experiences.

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The committee also received an update on the CLC grant.

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Unfortunately, we learned there will be budget reductions this year.

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We will need to continue monitoring the impact of these reductions and consider how they may affect programming and services moving forward.

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Overall, the committee continues to focus on thoughtful student-centered decisions that support learning, strengthen our staff,

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and use available resources responsibly.

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Our next meeting will be Tuesday, September 1st.

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Thank you, Chair Roo.

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Next, we've got the legislative update, legislative liaison, Shuf.

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Yeah, thank you. I have a quick update.

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So as you know, the August primaries are behind us, and both parties have picked their candidates for governor.

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Milwaukee County Executive David Crawley will face off against United States Congressman Tom Tiffany,

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and the general election, if you're counting, is 77 days away.

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We just urge all residents of the school district as you decide and get ready to vote in November 3rd,

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that we encourage everyone to listen and learn the different candidates' stance on public education.

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That funding formula that you'll hear a lot about is drives to great degree what we can do here in Deloitte.

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So pay attention to that.

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We'll also be watching what proposals come out of those candidates, legislative leaders, advocacy groups, the state superintendent's office.

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And then I just want to, back to my previous days, working for the state.

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This calendar is really fast. The elections in November, the governor transition literally begins the next day,

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and that governor, whichever governor is selected, has to present a budget the last Tuesday in January.

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So this happens really fast. It's likely to include education policy in there and funding formula reform.

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So it's a tight window, and we, as this district, others interested parties will stay engaged in this process

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as we work to have a more equitable system that can fund the school district of Deloitte.

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So thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Shuf.

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Our first board action discussion item tonight is open literacy.

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The purpose of this is to approve the use of Title I funds for the purpose of purchasing 60 open literacy tutoring seats at the second elementary school.

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Dr. Gordon.

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Yeah, thank you.

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So we know that we have accepted the Hendricks Family Foundation grant for one elementary school,

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and we had two elementary schools that were kind of competing for that grant.

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Both of them were so interested. It was very hard for the foundation to decide which one.

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So they have gifted us the opportunity to have both schools participate in that opportunity.

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So that was a little redundant there. But anyway, we are being gifted skyrocket to the second school.

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That is a huge offering. And the caveat to that is that we would agree to pay for open literacy for the three years that skyrocket would be in the school.

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With that comes some incentives for teachers, a lot of training, which Lisa talked about when she was at the podium.

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Our staff was engaged in a whole week last week of skyrocket training, which was fantastic.

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But open literacy and skyrocket are two separate things.

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But they connect to each other because you have to have solid systems and structures to make solid learning happen.

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So open literacy is virtual literacy tutoring for students in grades one through three.

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Students are tutored 25 minutes, four times a week.

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And the literacy skills are very targeted for each child, differentiated for each child.

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The focus is on word reading, comprehension, fluency, and vocabulary.

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The tutors are certified teachers or retired teachers, so they are very well versed in working with the children.

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This opportunity is something that I was able to watch when I took a tour in Milwaukee.

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And it was just amazing watching kids interact with their tutor one-on-one through the Chromebook.

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The kids wear the headphones, they have a microphone on their computer, and they just work one-on-one with the tutor.

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They are building a relationship with their tutor, they have the same tutor every day for the whole year, so it's remarkable.

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And the tutoring sessions are fluid, meaning that once a student does not need the tutoring anymore, or if the student moves away, somebody else can take that tutoring spot.

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Again, it's 60 tutoring slots in the building.

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And the tutoring sessions do not have to be designated 21st grade, 21st second grade, 24th grade.

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The building is able to set up those tutoring sessions for where the greatest needs are, so they've been able to work on that designation over the summer to decide where the greatest benefit is going to be.

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A kid who kind of ended the year in that struggling area of reading, so it's being very well vetted out through the intervention staff, the literacy coach, as well as the classroom teachers and the building principals.

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So they have really put in a lot of time and effort in that.

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While Dr. Anderson was still here, we started working on this project with Lisa, and Michael and Sarah, Michael's from Skyracket, Sarah's from Open Literacy.

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And Dr. Anderson was very much for us going ahead with this and using some of our title funds to fund the Open Literacy portion of what we would need

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to make this work for the second school.

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So with that being said, we are looking to approve the cost of the Open Literacy tutoring for the second school in the district here.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Did Ms. Forceth or Dr. Stingle want to add anything to what's already been shared?

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Okay.

433
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,960
Do board members have any questions or comments?

434
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:18,960
Megan Miller.

435
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:20,960
Thank you so much.

436
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:30,960
I wanted to just in the spirit of transparency, I asked Dr. Gordon earlier because I heard some feedback from community members when this was last brought up with the two schools.

437
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:38,960
So I just wanted to address her answer, and the question was just, you know, is there an opportunity cost essentially to like, how would we have used these title funds?

438
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:44,960
And I'm definitely assured of this based on the amazing work that Dr. Gordon and her team have been doing all summer with us.

439
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:52,960
It's very much meets the prioritized use of what those title funds would be used for anyway, and which, again, not surprised to hear, but very happy to hear.

440
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:57,960
And so certainly like, you know, a wise use of resources from the district and I'll just iterate again.

441
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:06,960
I'm just so thrilled at everybody's flexibility and just like sustained focus from all parties and like best meeting the needs of our kids because that's really what this is for.

442
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:15,960
And I know that's a ton of work and a ton of data analysis and expertise that goes into making sure that that's happening at our buildings and also in partnership with, you know, these organizations.

443
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:19,960
So I just wanted to like kind of highlight that and just express my gratitude.

444
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:21,960
So thank you.

445
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:23,960
Vice President Fox.

446
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:40,960
I certainly have no objections. I'm just kind of wondering why we're limiting it to Title 1, perhaps, because I would think maybe AGR allows for tutoring that AGR might be another opportunity or, you know, some other things.

447
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:47,960
So I don't know that we need to actually limit it to whatever source the district feels is appropriate.

448
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:51,960
It was simply because of the tutoring piece.

449
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,960
Tutoring is allowed under AGR. That's correct.

450
00:40:54,960 --> 00:41:00,960
I mean, we can look at the other fun too, but this was the designation under Dr. Anderson's guidance.

451
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:01,960
Yeah.

452
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,960
And like I said, I have no absolutely no objection to it.

453
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:08,960
I just don't want to tie your hands to one grant money.

454
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:12,960
It might be more appropriate to use the other one.

455
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:16,960
Any other board member questions or comments?

456
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:26,960
Hearing none, I am seeking a motion to approve using Title 1 funds to support the Open Literacy Program at the second participating school.

457
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,960
This will allow for the 60 tutoring seats.

458
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:31,960
What did I say?

459
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,960
Oh, Grant.

460
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:35,960
I'm sorry.

461
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:38,960
We're going to change that to grant.

462
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:46,960
So move approval using grant funds to support the Open Literacy Program at the second participating school.

463
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:50,960
This will allow for 60 tutoring seats in grades one through three.

464
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:51,960
So moved.

465
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:52,960
Second.

466
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,960
Motion by, I'm sorry, I missed who made that motion.

467
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:56,960
Dan Shuf.

468
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:58,960
And who was the second?

469
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:00,960
Meghan Miller.

470
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:05,960
Any other questions or comments on the motion?

471
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:07,960
Hearing none, all in favor?

472
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:08,960
Aye.

473
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:09,960
Aye.

474
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:10,960
Aye.

475
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:12,960
Any opposed?

476
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,960
Motion carries unanimously.

477
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:20,960
Again, thank you to the Hendricks Family Foundation for everything that they are doing.

478
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:27,960
And thank you to our wonderful administrators and superintendent for making this happen.

479
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:37,960
It is an opportunity that our students will have this year, but we will reap rewards for generations to come.

480
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:45,960
Our next agenda item is the contract revision for the board consultant's contract.

481
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:55,960
The purpose of this is to review revisions to the board consultant contract and take action on that.

482
00:42:56,960 --> 00:43:08,960
We met last night in a special board meeting to receive the final changes that were requested.

483
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:18,960
The revisions of adding the different articles that had been accidentally missed during the copy and pasting of this.

484
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:22,960
And I will take ownership of that oversight.

485
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:28,960
Are there any board member comments or questions?

486
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:29,960
Bill?

487
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:31,960
Is your hand up?

488
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:35,960
Oh, anyone else?

489
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:43,960
I am seeking a motion then to approve the board consultant contract as presented.

490
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:48,960
I move approval of the board consultant contract.

491
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:50,960
I'll second.

492
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:54,960
Motion by Carol Fox, seconded by Tom Hankins.

493
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:56,960
Any discussion?

494
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:57,960
Hearing none.

495
00:43:57,960 --> 00:43:59,960
All in favor?

496
00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:00,960
Aye.

497
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:01,960
Aye.

498
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:02,960
Aye.

499
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:04,960
Any opposed?

500
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:05,960
Nay.

501
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:10,960
Motion carries with one nay.

502
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:12,960
I don't know if you heard that.

503
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:14,960
Ms. Schop.

504
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:16,960
Meghan Miller.

505
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:18,960
I did.

506
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:19,960
Thank you.

507
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:20,960
Okay.

508
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:21,960
Thank you.

509
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:27,960
Our next agenda item is the budget update.

510
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:33,960
We have a budget update from executive director Stephanie Elwood.

511
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:48,960
Thank you.

512
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,960
I did just want to give a brief update.

513
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:24,960
I do have some slides here which I'm just going to quickly go through.

514
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:34,960
But for the budget for 2627, the board did work on approving some reductions.

515
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:37,960
And those reductions were approved on June 23rd.

516
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:45,960
And so our team and HR has been working through those reductions to get them to be to match in our system for Skyward.

517
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:51,960
So there's a lot of behind the scenes work that has to happen to get the final numbers done for October.

518
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:56,960
So we've been working through these reductions that were approved.

519
00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:03,960
We have not updated the numbers from the last update that we had given.

520
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:05,960
I think it was in July.

521
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:12,960
So we are still at the $408,000 deficit.

522
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:17,960
Knowing that we have cut quite a few positions in the district.

523
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:21,960
And we have gone through almost all the budgets.

524
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:26,960
Teaching and learning, people services, all the schools budgets got cut again by 10%.

525
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:32,960
We're holding the athletics department to what their previous budgets had been.

526
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:38,960
And we are looking still at other properties to sell and those types of things.

527
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:43,960
There is not a whole lot of wiggle room anymore in this budget to be honest with you.

528
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:48,960
We have cut quite a bit in the last three years that I have been here.

529
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:55,960
And without having additional funding for students and with the decreasing enrollment,

530
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:58,960
there's not a whole lot more that we can do for 2627.

531
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:05,960
I would ask that the board allow us a little wiggle room with other post-employment benefits at this point.

532
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:14,960
We do have still have, I just checked today and the balance right now is sitting at almost $4.7 million.

533
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:19,960
I'm pretty confident that we're not going to have to use any of that for the 2526 school year.

534
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:25,960
I still have some finishing entries to make for the previous school year.

535
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:33,960
But we're getting pretty close now that we need to also start thinking of our timeline for getting the budget approved.

536
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:38,960
Because we have to have the budget formally approved at the end of October.

537
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:43,960
And moving back through the timeline, we have to do a preliminary hearing,

538
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:52,960
some time, I'm sorry, annual budget hearing, some time towards the end of September beginning of October.

539
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:58,960
And there has to be some public notice that happens and you have to formally approve a preliminary budget.

540
00:47:59,960 --> 00:48:01,960
So we have to do some things here.

541
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:15,960
Just going back, attached in here also is the memo from July 18th with the details of the budget that we had put together.

542
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:18,960
Do you have any questions at this point?

543
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:19,960
I think.

544
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:20,960
Thank you Director.

545
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:21,960
Executive Director Elwood.

546
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:23,960
Do any board members have any questions?

547
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:24,960
Megan Miller.

548
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:25,960
Thank you.

549
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:28,960
And I'm not sure if it's like a board ducts glitch, but I'm so sorry Miss Elwood.

550
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:30,960
I don't have that attachment on there.

551
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:34,960
So I apologize for asking you to repeat what you very clearly explained and I just didn't write down.

552
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:39,960
But could you remind me in case we need to make a motion, which is my second question?

553
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:46,960
What is the, I guess, like the range of reasonable kind of like wiggle room that you're looking for?

554
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:52,960
So right now we have with the budget, we're short about $408,000.

555
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:53,960
Was that 408?

556
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:54,960
408.

557
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:55,960
108,000.

558
00:48:55,960 --> 00:49:00,960
However, there are some other things that have come up since the last budget.

559
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:05,960
We talked about the phone systems, which may be anywhere from.

560
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:11,960
So can three to $500,000 additional.

561
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:12,960
Sure.

562
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:18,960
So what would make you feel comfortable so that like as I know that there's nothing that's going to not make like this stressful.

563
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:33,960
But if you knew you had like this, like XML that is going to make this workable where you feel like you could in good faith bring us like a budget that is reasonably going to meet the needs of the district while being, obviously, physically responsible in the spirit of what the board has directed us to do.

564
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:36,960
What would that number or range be?

565
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:42,960
So realistically, I would like to put another million dollars from open into the budget.

566
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:55,960
As a caveat, if we do have to do an upgrade to the phone system, or if there are other unintended or unforeseen infrastructure things that need to happen this year.

567
00:49:55,960 --> 00:50:04,960
Because at this point, we're not going to refer on them for 2627, but we're still around and need some wiggle room for some of the things in the budget.

568
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:27,960
And so my last question and then I'll yield the floor would be just, I'm wondering, would it feel, in your opinion, would it be wisest for us to make a motion to formally say like, you know, the board authorizes the administration to bring forward a preliminary budget with up to this amount from OPEB?

569
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:28,960
Right.

570
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:31,960
Or is this just something where you're just coming for an update?

571
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:41,960
Ms. Miller, if you don't mind, I have requested that we have regular updates included in our agendas.

572
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:44,960
And that's a wonderful question.

573
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:55,960
I like the motion, but I would personally would prefer for it to be reserved until we have a board meeting specifically about budgets so we can see all of the details in front of us.

574
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:59,960
Right now, this is just a snapshot of what's happened in the past month.

575
00:50:59,960 --> 00:51:05,960
No, I really appreciate that clarification. Fully agree. Sounds great. Thank you so much.

576
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:14,960
And knowing that we have to sit down and make some finalization on the dates to set up for the next month or two.

577
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:16,960
Bill Johnson.

578
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:20,960
Yeah, if we do take a million out of the old bed.

579
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:27,960
Any idea how much interest we lose at that point?

580
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:30,960
I can get that number for you off the top of my head. I'm not sure.

581
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:31,960
Yeah.

582
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:41,960
But realizing to that putting the OPEB dollars into the budget doesn't automatically reduce the funds in the account.

583
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:44,960
It is contingent about us of us.

584
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:46,960
Uncing those funds as well.

585
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:50,960
So if we don't spend the money, we wouldn't remove the money from the OPEB account.

586
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:53,960
Thank you.

587
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:55,960
Thank you, Director.

588
00:51:55,960 --> 00:52:00,960
Oh, Board Member Hinkins, Treasurer Hinkins.

589
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:02,960
Thank you.

590
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:06,960
And go back to what Tia said, so I won't belabor the subject because this is a preliminary look.

591
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:13,960
I have many questions, but I know we're in this process and we have a timeline that we have to hone in on.

592
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:17,960
So these numbers, I appreciate coming forward with these numbers.

593
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:27,960
Knowing that I go back to my meeting with Leah and we had several options put up there for budget reductions.

594
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:33,960
So we haven't exhausted some of those yet, so we're still in a preliminary mode, so I won't question.

595
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:37,960
No, you and those until we go through this process. Thank you.

596
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:38,960
Thank you.

597
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:39,960
Thank you, Director Elwood.

598
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:43,960
And thank you, Board Members, for your understanding.

599
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:50,960
Again, these updates are just a snapshot of what's happened over the past month for us to be well-informed,

600
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:56,960
but also for our public to be well-informed as well to know what's happening.

601
00:52:56,960 --> 00:53:02,960
Our next update comes from the special education update.

602
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:08,960
And this is Melissa Beaver.

603
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:18,960
Melissa Beaver is Executive Director of Pupil Services and Eric Weir, Director of Special Ed and Pupil Services.

604
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:23,960
Good evening.

605
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:27,960
Since you received the written update in advance, I'm not going to walk through the entire document tonight,

606
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:33,960
but rather I will briefly highlight what we have done since the July 15th meeting.

607
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:38,960
And more importantly, what the implementation of this work looks like moving forward as requested.

608
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:44,960
As you all know, staff have not yet returned, so the work we have completed has focused on getting the people,

609
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:52,960
expectations, structures, and professional learning in place so that we can begin implementation with the staff when they return.

610
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:55,960
There are several things that have already occurred.

611
00:53:55,960 --> 00:54:03,960
First, we reviewed the findings from the evaluation alongside our continuous improvement plan and incorporated this work into that existing plan.

612
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:11,960
Second, we have restructured the program manager role and are making changes to help Pupil Services Administration supports building administrators.

613
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:19,960
We are shifting program managers from a primarily administrative support role to a capacity building role focused on implementation,

614
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:23,960
coaching, collaboration, and consistency across schools.

615
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:33,960
We rolled those changes out to all administrators during Admin Academy last week, and we have additional professional learning and technical assistance plan for program managers in the fall.

616
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:39,960
Third, we are onboarding all new special education staff before they begin their work in our buildings.

617
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:47,960
That onboarding will provide a common foundation around legal requirements, district policies and processes, behavior,

618
00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:55,960
discipline and safety, paperwork and compliance, the IEP process, rules and collaboration, and who to go to when they need support.

619
00:54:55,960 --> 00:55:02,960
This starts tomorrow with day two of new hire orientation and will continue as we hire new staff throughout the year.

620
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:10,960
For all Pupil Services staff, special ed student services, health staff, our August professional learning is also planned.

621
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:16,960
We will be level setting expectations around special education compliance and spending time on specially designed instruction.

622
00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:24,960
Least restrictive environment accommodations and modifications, LEA responsibilities, and the restructured program manager role.

623
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:33,960
We have already begun meeting with our elementary principals to develop a scope and sequence for professional learning for elementary staff, regular ed and special ed.

624
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:45,960
That work will focus on areas such as culture and climate, behavior, classroom management, student regulation, and creating stronger building level systems for supporting students with complex needs.

625
00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:56,960
We are also developing regular collaboration among our coaches, school psychologists, and program managers to strengthen our multi level system of supports and create greater consistency.

626
00:55:56,960 --> 00:56:02,960
And how we approach intervention, problem solving, and student support across our schools.

627
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:05,960
And finally, staffing remains a significant part of this work.

628
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:12,960
We are continuing to work closely with principals and the human resources department on recruitment and staffing alignment.

629
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:22,040
At this point, we have approximately 17 vacant special education teaching positions and about 25 paraprofessional vacancies.

630
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:31,720
We are working hard to fill these positions because we know staffing capacity directly affects our ability to consistently implement services and supports for our students.

631
00:56:31,720 --> 00:56:37,480
Some pieces of our plan are already complete and some begin with staff professional learning in a couple of weeks.

632
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:41,960
Other pieces will continue throughout the year because they involve changes in practice and

633
00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:43,720
building capacity over time.

634
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:54,560
We will be looking at staff feedback, implementation, consistency across schools and student outcomes to determine what is working and where we need to continue to make adjustments.

635
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:56,720
So that is where the work stands today.

636
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:02,640
Thank you, Executive Director Beavers.

637
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:04,600
Are there any board member questions or comments?

638
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:10,840
Vice President Pox?

639
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:20,200
Just wondering the role of the program manager, did you change the job description or did you just, how did you do that?

640
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:26,920
All job descriptions were updated as a result of positions being cut due to budget.

641
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:28,480
Okay.

642
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:31,120
So yes.

643
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:35,520
Anyone else?

644
00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:46,240
In terms of the vacant special ed positions, and thank you for working with the HR department and

645
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:58,760
the building principals to work to get those filled, is there anything that else that can be done to help expedite getting those positions filled?

646
00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:05,560
We would need applicants to apply.

647
00:58:05,560 --> 00:58:06,360
Okay.

648
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:13,080
So I will say this to all listening bodies out there in the virtual world.

649
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:18,200
If you are interested in a position in special ed and qualified at the school district,

650
00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:22,840
a boy, come on down board member room.

651
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:27,840
Yeah, my question was similar.

652
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:32,720
What are we doing to try to recruit more special ed teachers in Paris?

653
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:45,400
I mean, from our departments, we have relationships with colleges and universities.

654
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:48,520
So we're trying to create pipelines like that.

655
00:58:48,520 --> 00:58:56,120
A lot of you may remember the UW set program that I was heavily involved with with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

656
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:01,480
There are jobs out there on we can.

657
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:08,320
I would maybe defer to DD to add additional information on what human resources does.

658
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:10,080
We also send blasts.

659
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:14,840
We go into we can and search whoever has the appropriate licensure for

660
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:23,840
the jobs that we are seeking and we send blast emails to anybody who has touched their application within the last six months.

661
00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:30,160
A lot of times we have our own staff coming in and saying, thanks for asking me to apply for a job in the district.

662
00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:36,040
Because so we know they're receiving them, but we're job fairs.

663
00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:40,920
Yep, we have gone to specific job fairs for speech,

664
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:43,840
like, you know, to get those hard to fill positions.

665
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:49,320
It's just really the special education teaching positions that we're really struggling to fill.

666
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:53,840
Board Member Miller.

667
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:54,360
Thank you.

668
00:59:54,360 --> 01:00:00,360
I think we're all on the same page tonight because I too wrote down a very similar question to what Board President Johnson and Mr.

669
01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:04,440
just asked, but I also as a follow up, I was going to ask this in the next update.

670
01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:06,000
So maybe this is a more appropriate place for that.

671
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:07,400
Let me know.

672
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:13,440
Is it within I guess like the scope and capacity of your department to do any like information collecting about like,

673
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:19,200
you know, what, whether like in like both in a positive way, like, hey, like what caused you to choose us as your district?

674
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:23,840
Just like to help inform us and whatever policies, processes that we need to look at.

675
01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:32,920
As well as like, maybe as people are leaving or I don't know if there's any other data like people talk about that might inform like any long term or strategic planning that we do.

676
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:38,000
So we can help systemically remove some barriers or make adjustments or is that more kind of an HR.

677
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:40,080
I think that's an HR question.

678
01:00:40,080 --> 01:00:43,240
We we don't see that that information.

679
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:43,600
Got it.

680
01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:45,240
Well, I will hold my question.

681
01:00:45,240 --> 01:00:47,920
Thank you so much.

682
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:50,440
Thank you, Ms. Beavers and Mr. Weir.

683
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:54,800
And that's a good place to transition to our HR update.

684
01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:10,920
Good evening.

685
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:30,920
So today, excuse me, today we had a great honor of literally filling this room with new hires, professional educators, very,

686
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:38,920
very positive environment, just they're ready to come in and effect some serious changes.

687
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:42,920
So I'm very excited for those who participated today.

688
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:49,920
And of course, new high orientation continues for the next couple of days as well.

689
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:59,920
Our focus during the presentation that HR facilitated is on retention.

690
01:01:59,920 --> 01:02:04,920
It is great to have a room full of new fresh faces.

691
01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:15,920
I would love next year to have maybe the 10 positions that someone retired from be all that we have in that room.

692
01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:19,920
So a very lofty goal.

693
01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:28,920
But again, it's very refreshing to see the new faces and the new energy that is coming in.

694
01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:50,920
And again, just trying to work with them at the first sign of anything that we could be doing different or better for them to reach out to go through the chain of command to allow us the opportunity to make this transition into their new roles here at the district as successful as possible.

695
01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:59,920
Other than that, I did provide you with the latest and greatest ever changing vacancy list.

696
01:02:59,920 --> 01:03:07,920
And I say that because as I was sitting here, we got some new recommendations for hire, which brings down the count.

697
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:12,920
So again, it's a very fluid count.

698
01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:20,920
The total that we have outstanding currently are 61.

699
01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:26,920
And the primary areas, of course, are the very difficult to fill.

700
01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:33,920
Not just for the school district of Beloit, but throughout the state of special education.

701
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:43,920
So again, not a reflection in our district, certainly not a reflection in our hiring practices or people services department as much as it is.

702
01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:53,920
We simply do not have as many students going into the profession and then of those that are going into the teaching profession.

703
01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:58,920
Even fewer are going into special education.

704
01:03:58,920 --> 01:04:08,920
So aside from that, we're also shifting our special ed paraprofessionals between buildings and we do this every year.

705
01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:15,920
And the goal is to capture where the students are going, what school and grade level they're going to.

706
01:04:15,920 --> 01:04:27,920
And what the IP minutes are that they require to determine where our paraprofessionals need to be placed to follow the needs of each student.

707
01:04:27,920 --> 01:04:36,920
So we're almost complete with the process of moving the staff to the appropriate location.

708
01:04:36,920 --> 01:04:40,920
Again, to meet the needs of our students.

709
01:04:40,920 --> 01:04:44,920
Other than that, I don't have any other update.

710
01:04:44,920 --> 01:04:47,920
Thank you, Executive Director Almondoress.

711
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:49,920
Are there any board member questions?

712
01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:50,920
Tom Hankins.

713
01:04:50,920 --> 01:04:52,920
Thank you so much.

714
01:04:52,920 --> 01:04:55,920
To clarify to me, perhaps.

715
01:04:56,920 --> 01:04:59,920
Did I hear you say that we still have 61 vacancies?

716
01:04:59,920 --> 01:05:00,920
Yes.

717
01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:01,920
Okay.

718
01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:02,920
Throughout the district.

719
01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:04,920
Throughout the district, yes, sir.

720
01:05:04,920 --> 01:05:12,920
And the ones that knew hires, so that's not including, that's okay, they're in.

721
01:05:12,920 --> 01:05:19,920
Okay, so my question is going back to last year, all the years we've carried over these positions we've never hired for.

722
01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:22,920
Those are not on this list, right?

723
01:05:22,920 --> 01:05:23,920
No.

724
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:27,920
If we did that with our budget trim, we're not going to advertise for those.

725
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:29,920
We just said, okay, we can't hire for those.

726
01:05:29,920 --> 01:05:30,920
So let's, okay.

727
01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:33,920
So the 61 is a true, true number for this year.

728
01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:34,920
Yes, sir.

729
01:05:34,920 --> 01:05:35,920
We still need to be filled.

730
01:05:35,920 --> 01:05:36,920
Absolutely.

731
01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:37,920
We're going to try it.

732
01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:38,920
No, I'm not.

733
01:05:38,920 --> 01:05:40,920
I'm just clarifying it for me.

734
01:05:40,920 --> 01:05:41,920
Right.

735
01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:42,920
That's 61.

736
01:05:42,920 --> 01:05:50,920
And hopefully not carry over into the spring that we still have 50 openings like we've done that for.

737
01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:52,920
Okay, because we've trimmed that on.

738
01:05:52,920 --> 01:05:53,920
Okay, sorry, sir.

739
01:05:53,920 --> 01:05:55,920
Stay here a little bit.

740
01:05:55,920 --> 01:05:56,920
Thank you.

741
01:05:56,920 --> 01:05:59,920
Thank you, Mr. Hankins, Vice President Fox.

742
01:05:59,920 --> 01:06:01,920
I have a couple of questions.

743
01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:04,920
Are we using the agency yet or?

744
01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:05,920
Yes.

745
01:06:05,920 --> 01:06:10,920
So those are already, and we've been using that and we still don't have these positions.

746
01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:15,920
I'm wondering, especially with special ed, it's, I know it's a statewide thing.

747
01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:20,920
Are there other districts doing creative things to solve their problem?

748
01:06:20,920 --> 01:06:27,920
Or are there things that we aren't doing that we should be doing that would help that situation at all?

749
01:06:27,920 --> 01:06:29,920
That is an excellent question.

750
01:06:29,920 --> 01:06:34,920
I think other districts are also experiencing the same shortage.

751
01:06:34,920 --> 01:06:44,920
I don't know of any creative approach that they may have, but I can certainly cast a wider net and try to get some insight.

752
01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:54,920
Well, I just wondered to, you know, one of the things that people talk about is salary and whether we need to be, you know, beefing up the special ed teacher's salaries or not.

753
01:06:54,920 --> 01:06:57,920
I don't know if other districts are doing that to be competitive.

754
01:06:57,920 --> 01:07:04,920
So that might be something we certainly needs to be looked into, but we need to discuss.

755
01:07:05,920 --> 01:07:12,920
I do get concerned about the number of special ed pairs that we have, and especially since it seems like most of them are one-on-one pairs.

756
01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:25,920
And I'm wondering if that dynamic could be looked at and changed as well in some ways, or if it's just absolutely necessary to have that many one-on-one aids for our students.

757
01:07:25,920 --> 01:07:32,920
So that's just not a, that I'm not saying anybody's doing anything wrong, or it's a bad thing.

758
01:07:32,920 --> 01:07:40,920
I just worry about it because we have so many, and now we have so many vacancies because then we have these kids that are just not covered.

759
01:07:40,920 --> 01:07:45,920
So, and I think I had something else, but I don't remember what it was.

760
01:07:45,920 --> 01:07:48,920
Well, if you remember, I'll come back to you.

761
01:07:48,920 --> 01:07:51,920
Board Clerk Miller.

762
01:07:52,920 --> 01:07:54,920
Thank you.

763
01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:57,920
Here, I'm going to lower my hand before I forget.

764
01:07:57,920 --> 01:07:58,920
All right.

765
01:07:58,920 --> 01:08:01,920
Thank you so much for the update and the presentation.

766
01:08:01,920 --> 01:08:03,920
I know it's a lot, right?

767
01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:06,920
I mean, it's very complicated.

768
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:09,920
Employment field like to navigate, and there's all kinds of stuff.

769
01:08:09,920 --> 01:08:18,920
And so in the spirit of helping to inform the board so we can kind of partner in improving systems, just a couple of questions.

770
01:08:18,920 --> 01:08:34,920
One thing would be from your recent and I guess historic experience here, are there any policies or procedures that would have to be amended at the board level that are perhaps creating additional hoops or barriers, whether it's through communication for staff?

771
01:08:34,920 --> 01:08:44,920
And I'll just name one that I've heard people share with me in the past, which is like our drug testing policy because I know the school district of Janesville does not require employees to get drug tests.

772
01:08:44,920 --> 01:08:49,920
I think at some point there's some kind of like, it's also like a huge expense thing, things like that.

773
01:08:49,920 --> 01:08:52,920
You know, yeah, it's extremely expensive practice.

774
01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:57,920
In no way am I advocating that we just like, hey, come on, come on, whatever.

775
01:08:57,920 --> 01:09:03,920
I'm just, I just, if districts, neighboring districts seem to be doing well without some of those pieces.

776
01:09:03,920 --> 01:09:08,920
Is that something that maybe the board should be prioritizing and are there others?

777
01:09:08,920 --> 01:09:14,920
So I would say what takes the longest is in some instances background checks.

778
01:09:14,920 --> 01:09:27,920
So if you have individuals that have lived in multiple municipalities, states, then you have to wait for the information to come back from each of those reporting agencies.

779
01:09:27,920 --> 01:09:33,920
And some are a lot quicker than others with how they present their information.

780
01:09:33,920 --> 01:09:37,920
Like we literally have some municipalities that still have paper files.

781
01:09:37,920 --> 01:09:45,920
So with that being said, the biggest delay oftentimes is the background check.

782
01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:54,920
And are you aware is that something that like we should like, is that something that in the circle of HR school district professionals that I'm sure you're in communication with?

783
01:09:54,920 --> 01:10:04,920
Like, are there other like, you know, vendors or processors or even like timelines that like, again, like, I know the board sets some of these timelines based on like, when are we bringing things to agendas and things like that?

784
01:10:04,920 --> 01:10:12,920
Like, are there any adjustments we can make on our end that you would recommend that would help move that along more quickly for you?

785
01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:31,920
I think the board has been very generous in the past in allowing us to, for example, for new hire orientation since there are no students present to be able to include everyone that is being brought forth to the board so that they can participate and receive the same information.

786
01:10:31,920 --> 01:10:48,920
When school is in session, the board has also allowed us in the past and it's a practice that we've continued as long as they pass the background check, drug screening, all of the pre-employment required features were able to bring them into the school.

787
01:10:48,920 --> 01:10:55,920
For example, teacher as a sub in case the board does not approve their hire, that they get compensated at a sub rate.

788
01:10:55,920 --> 01:11:07,920
But that way it allows them to get into the classroom a lot sooner and allows the two weeks, sometimes three week gap, to not limit them from being in that classroom.

789
01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:11,920
So the board has already been amazing in allowing us to do that.

790
01:11:12,920 --> 01:11:18,920
We actually coincidentally looked at a vendor to do background checks.

791
01:11:18,920 --> 01:11:40,920
Currently, we put forth to Infomart to the DOJ and to another entity that is slipping my mind right now, but we have three different entities that we utilize to vet background checks and that's the same for our staff as it is for our volunteers.

792
01:11:41,920 --> 01:11:47,920
And we're doing it ourselves, which means we are following up and waiting for the results.

793
01:11:47,920 --> 01:11:57,920
So we looked into a vendor, it's a little pricier, so we will look at some other options outside of that and that will help us streamline the process.

794
01:11:57,920 --> 01:12:07,920
But until we take it for a test drive, I don't know if they're going to be quicker than what we've experienced doing it ourselves directly.

795
01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:08,920
So I appreciate that.

796
01:12:08,920 --> 01:12:14,920
And then my last kind of question here and then I'll yield the floor is just kind of along the same lines.

797
01:12:14,920 --> 01:12:23,920
Are there things that you would like in your perfect world, you would like to see that would help maybe streamline communication and other processes?

798
01:12:23,920 --> 01:12:31,920
Because I know there's always a buzz around, oh, well, so and so do you know, I didn't get a thing back until this day.

799
01:12:31,920 --> 01:12:33,920
And that's I'm sure very much the culture, right?

800
01:12:33,920 --> 01:12:40,920
So like ideally to make these processes as smooth as you would like them to be.

801
01:12:40,920 --> 01:12:47,920
I guess there are other things that we need to have on our radar as is, you know, we were looking at looking at a preliminary budget soon and things like that, right?

802
01:12:47,920 --> 01:12:49,920
So staffing is a big deal.

803
01:12:50,920 --> 01:13:01,920
In my perfect world, I would love to be able to have an HRIS that is more intuitive than the HR side of Skyward.

804
01:13:01,920 --> 01:13:04,920
So there's different modules to Skyward.

805
01:13:04,920 --> 01:13:13,920
And so I would love that because we it can service an ATS where you can send out interview invites.

806
01:13:13,920 --> 01:13:23,920
And there's no data entry when you press to hire someone, all of their information that's already entered slides into creating a record for them as an employee.

807
01:13:23,920 --> 01:13:30,920
So they're very intuitive programs out there that I've been able to utilize in the past.

808
01:13:30,920 --> 01:13:34,920
There is a cost associated with everything.

809
01:13:34,920 --> 01:13:43,920
So I would love to be able to calculate what the cost in manpower is because sometimes when we look at vendor pricing,

810
01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:54,920
we tend to forget that if we're spending one employee, you know, 50% of their day manually entering in different systems,

811
01:13:54,920 --> 01:14:00,920
the information, you may have very well paid the per employee per month fee.

812
01:14:00,920 --> 01:14:08,920
So I would love to be able to focus on that and bring that to the board if the board will be able to consider it.

813
01:14:08,920 --> 01:14:18,920
And I also want to bring in different stakeholders to make sure that our desire to do that does not impact their ability to do what they need to do on Skyward.

814
01:14:18,920 --> 01:14:24,920
So that's been a dream of mine since I started here and it may be a little cost prohibitive, but again,

815
01:14:24,920 --> 01:14:31,920
it may pay for itself just as with the background check going to a third party.

816
01:14:31,920 --> 01:14:34,920
Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

817
01:14:34,920 --> 01:14:37,920
Chair Roo?

818
01:14:37,920 --> 01:14:38,920
Yes. Thank you.

819
01:14:38,920 --> 01:14:40,920
Okay. So first question.

820
01:14:40,920 --> 01:14:47,920
So these positions are these positions being filled by the temp agency at this time at all?

821
01:14:47,920 --> 01:14:54,920
Or are there additional positions that are being filled by temp employees?

822
01:14:54,920 --> 01:15:01,920
So these are true vacancies that are not being filled by direct hire or third party employees.

823
01:15:01,920 --> 01:15:07,920
And so do you know the number of third party employees that we've hired for this?

824
01:15:07,920 --> 01:15:13,920
I can get that for you. I don't know off the top of my head, but it is a substantial number.

825
01:15:13,920 --> 01:15:22,920
If I had to guess, I would say it's probably close to similar to the number of vacancies if I had to guess.

826
01:15:22,920 --> 01:15:34,920
And of those is the ratio of special ed employees the same with this being over 40 of about 60.

827
01:15:34,920 --> 01:15:38,920
Do you think the special ed numbers look the same for that then?

828
01:15:38,920 --> 01:15:51,920
I would say yes, because we for allied health positions, we do rely heavily on the agency to provide us with the SLPs and Sykes, etc.

829
01:15:51,920 --> 01:16:07,920
And also for the special ed paras, there is a more immediate compensation benefit to them when they go through the agency than when they are hired directly.

830
01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:11,920
And so it's a matter of you want the money now, you want it later.

831
01:16:11,920 --> 01:16:20,920
So some of the perks that we have that we benefit from, they don't have, but then that helps to push their rate a little more than what we offer.

832
01:16:20,920 --> 01:16:24,920
So this is a crisis, right?

833
01:16:25,920 --> 01:16:36,920
That's over 100 people that, I mean, if we're looking at the temp ones as well, we're down over 100 employees.

834
01:16:36,920 --> 01:16:46,920
I think it makes sense to look at that skyward thing if that would help us to move the process along faster since that is one of our hurdles.

835
01:16:46,920 --> 01:16:51,920
So I would love to hear more about that and how much that would cost.

836
01:16:52,920 --> 01:17:03,920
I think this directly impacts our retention of staff too, especially when we don't have our special ed staffing the way it is here.

837
01:17:03,920 --> 01:17:15,920
I know my last year, part of the reason why I'm no longer a district employee that way is because my students, I didn't have the support I needed in my classroom.

838
01:17:16,920 --> 01:17:21,920
I don't think one-on-ones are used as much as one might think.

839
01:17:21,920 --> 01:17:26,920
A lot of times we have paras that are in charge of three or four students.

840
01:17:26,920 --> 01:17:35,920
We move them around the buildings now, we don't keep them with just one student, so I don't think one-on-ones is what people may think it is.

841
01:17:35,920 --> 01:17:42,920
I do know other districts in the area do pay their special ed paras more than their regular ed paras.

842
01:17:43,920 --> 01:17:50,920
Maybe that might be one way to look at it or offering paras options.

843
01:17:50,920 --> 01:18:09,920
I don't know if this is possible, but if they wanted to work less hours, like if they worked 8.30 to 2.30, then they wouldn't be a full-time employee and we wouldn't have to offer them benefits if they would prefer that and we could pay them a little bit more that way too.

844
01:18:10,920 --> 01:18:38,920
This makes me lose breath when I look at it and I think we need to, as much as our budget is a crisis, this is a crisis too, because this affects so many other things to our retention, our students, what they need, behaviors, academics, all of it is related to this as well.

845
01:18:38,920 --> 01:18:42,920
So I think we as a team really need to dig into this.

846
01:18:42,920 --> 01:18:43,920
Thank you.

847
01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:44,920
Thank you.

848
01:18:44,920 --> 01:18:45,920
Thank you.

849
01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:49,920
Any other board member questions or comments?

850
01:18:49,920 --> 01:18:58,920
Well, board member Miller, you and I must be thinking alike tonight because the two questions I had one was on the drug testing.

851
01:18:59,920 --> 01:19:20,920
We do live in a state that is bordering other states where recreational THC usage and medical THC use is legal and I think that's something that we do have to accept that reality.

852
01:19:21,920 --> 01:19:24,920
And so, but the other question I had was retirees.

853
01:19:24,920 --> 01:19:38,920
Do we reach out to retirees to see if any of them may be interested in coming back and helping part-time or whatever they can?

854
01:19:39,920 --> 01:19:40,920
So we do.

855
01:19:40,920 --> 01:19:45,920
We actually want to see about bringing them back as substitutes primarily.

856
01:19:45,920 --> 01:19:52,920
And we did that with a position last year, even part-time to help cover with a retiree.

857
01:19:52,920 --> 01:20:02,920
It's the WRS cap that impacts us because it can only work so many hours or risk not getting their retirement.

858
01:20:03,920 --> 01:20:12,920
But we do reach out to them to at least sub for us and those are opportunities to gauge their desire to continue working at all.

859
01:20:12,920 --> 01:20:15,920
We are successful in some cases, not all.

860
01:20:15,920 --> 01:20:18,920
Sometimes when people are done, they're just done.

861
01:20:18,920 --> 01:20:27,920
But we do keep a list of retirees so that after that honeymoon phase of being retired phases that we can reach out to them and see where they're at then.

862
01:20:27,920 --> 01:20:29,920
Thank you.

863
01:20:30,920 --> 01:20:58,920
So from the sounds of it, I will ask Chair Fox and Chair Hankins to work with you and putting on their future committee meetings issues of looking into drug testing, the third-party background check, the HRES, and salary rates and options to attract para educators.

864
01:20:59,920 --> 01:21:01,920
And the skyward thing.

865
01:21:01,920 --> 01:21:02,920
Yep.

866
01:21:02,920 --> 01:21:03,920
Yep.

867
01:21:03,920 --> 01:21:04,920
Yep.

868
01:21:04,920 --> 01:21:05,920
Okay.

869
01:21:05,920 --> 01:21:06,920
Thank you.

870
01:21:06,920 --> 01:21:07,920
Thank you.

871
01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:08,920
Executive Director Almond-Darras.

872
01:21:08,920 --> 01:21:09,920
Thank you.

873
01:21:09,920 --> 01:21:12,920
Next agenda item.

874
01:21:12,920 --> 01:21:17,920
We have review of board meeting cadence.

875
01:21:17,920 --> 01:21:27,920
The purpose of this is board members will discuss how the trial period for the board meeting cadence has been working and whether board members want to keep it this way or go back to the board meeting.

876
01:21:27,920 --> 01:21:33,920
This way or go back to the old way or try something new.

877
01:21:33,920 --> 01:21:35,920
Background information.

878
01:21:35,920 --> 01:21:38,920
We changed this this summer.

879
01:21:38,920 --> 01:21:45,920
Our meeting cadence at the beginning of the summer, we had a different expectation of what the summer would look like.

880
01:21:45,920 --> 01:21:55,920
And as it morphed, we changed our meetings and ended up having at least the last month.

881
01:21:55,920 --> 01:22:03,920
Special board meeting every Monday and one board meeting on the third Tuesday of the month.

882
01:22:03,920 --> 01:22:10,920
And we were at our three month point of what we originally agreed to try.

883
01:22:10,920 --> 01:22:20,920
Yesterday the governance committee discussed this item and the benefits and disadvantages of the current meeting schedules and the previous ones.

884
01:22:20,920 --> 01:22:27,920
The concern was shared that this current cadence has not been used during the school year calendar.

885
01:22:27,920 --> 01:22:38,920
It was the committee's recommendation to continue this cadence on a trial period through the end of the calendar year, December 31st.

886
01:22:38,920 --> 01:22:44,920
Which then would give us a sense of how it works for the school year.

887
01:22:44,920 --> 01:23:01,920
The chair is being able to make minor adjustments as needed and a recommendation to administration to have administrators do a prerecorded video of their presentations and be uploaded prior to the board meetings to give

888
01:23:01,920 --> 01:23:11,920
board members time to view their presentations and hear what they're saying as opposed to just a PowerPoint presentation.

889
01:23:12,920 --> 01:23:15,920
Are there any questions or comments at this time?

890
01:23:17,920 --> 01:23:18,920
Board member Shuf?

891
01:23:18,920 --> 01:23:19,920
Yeah, just briefly.

892
01:23:19,920 --> 01:23:24,920
I wasn't at the governance committee yesterday, so I appreciate the update.

893
01:23:24,920 --> 01:23:37,920
I particularly just want to comment as a new member have really liked the committee meeting day where we can and are encouraged to sit in.

894
01:23:37,920 --> 01:23:48,920
And all the chairs have been great about obviously you're calling on your committee members first, but seeing if other members want to comment, I've learned a lot from the other committees as well.

895
01:23:48,920 --> 01:23:58,920
So I've really thought that'd been helpful and I look forward to participating in the trial cadence through the semester. Thank you.

896
01:23:59,920 --> 01:24:01,920
Joanne Ru.

897
01:24:01,920 --> 01:24:13,920
One of the things I have appreciated about it is that it does make for our regular board meeting to be usually much shorter.

898
01:24:13,920 --> 01:24:23,920
I think tonight the three things that weren't part of a budget or a committee meeting are the three things that have taken up the chunk of the time.

899
01:24:23,920 --> 01:24:37,920
So I think that it just proves our case that doing the work at the committee level helps make this meeting more palatable.

900
01:24:42,920 --> 01:24:43,920
Megan Miller.

901
01:24:43,920 --> 01:24:45,920
Thank you so much.

902
01:24:45,920 --> 01:24:54,920
So I would agree with all the comments that have been shared and in terms of, so one question or I guess suggestion I would have.

903
01:24:54,920 --> 01:24:58,920
I like the recommendations, but it doesn't matter if I like them because I'm not the one that would have to do the work.

904
01:24:58,920 --> 01:25:04,920
So I just as long as I'm fully in support of all of that as long as our administration is like, yeah, that's palatable or we can do.

905
01:25:04,920 --> 01:25:09,920
So as long as we're being flexible and responsive to like whatever works for them, that works for me.

906
01:25:10,920 --> 01:25:15,920
Another thing I'd like to highlight as a positive is I really appreciate it like just the room configuration.

907
01:25:15,920 --> 01:25:21,920
Like as like, I'm spending the night kind of doing one of these and a movement material, you know, because it's, you know, I want to talk to you.

908
01:25:21,920 --> 01:25:30,920
And so, I mean, I don't know if there's like a way like technology wise to make that work here where there's, it would still preserve space for people or not.

909
01:25:30,920 --> 01:25:37,920
But I've loved that and I would encourage us to consider, you know, replicating.

910
01:25:37,920 --> 01:25:42,920
I guess that that configuration for our regular board business meetings, but yeah, I just want to echo everything that was said.

911
01:25:42,920 --> 01:25:49,920
And just to confirm like all of those meetings for the committees, they're like, they're not, I know they're not like live televised, but they're recorded.

912
01:25:49,920 --> 01:25:54,920
So there's not any accessibility concerns or anything or transparency issues or anything, right?

913
01:25:55,920 --> 01:26:04,920
The one of the ideas behind going to this would be have the Tuesday committee meetings recorded.

914
01:26:04,920 --> 01:26:07,920
There's been some hiccups and getting that done every time.

915
01:26:07,920 --> 01:26:18,920
So we are working on getting the Tuesday meetings recorded and all chairs have the ability to record through Google Meats.

916
01:26:18,920 --> 01:26:25,920
It may take some training and it's a little bit clunkier through Google Meats because of the audio.

917
01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:30,920
No, and that was, and I didn't even know that and certainly no criticism at all.

918
01:26:30,920 --> 01:26:35,920
I just know that that's anytime we've made any kind of alteration in any kind of meeting anything.

919
01:26:35,920 --> 01:26:39,920
There's usually some kind of public concern about like, is there transparency?

920
01:26:39,920 --> 01:26:42,920
Is it accessible, which are excellent and important questions?

921
01:26:42,920 --> 01:26:45,920
So I just wanted to raise those and yeah, I think that's fantastic.

922
01:26:45,920 --> 01:26:46,920
So thank you.

923
01:26:46,920 --> 01:26:49,920
Thank you for that comment, board member Miller.

924
01:26:49,920 --> 01:26:51,920
We are all about transparency.

925
01:26:51,920 --> 01:26:56,920
We are never trying to, you know, be less transparent.

926
01:26:56,920 --> 01:26:59,920
We are trying to be more transparent.

927
01:26:59,920 --> 01:27:04,920
There are costs though that are involved in having somebody here to record meetings.

928
01:27:04,920 --> 01:27:11,920
And so we have to balance the, are we being transparent versus the cost of what we can do?

929
01:27:11,920 --> 01:27:15,920
And all of our meetings are public meetings.

930
01:27:15,920 --> 01:27:20,920
So everybody is welcome to come on down, sit in and join us for a meeting.

931
01:27:20,920 --> 01:27:23,920
We would love to have you here.

932
01:27:23,920 --> 01:27:26,920
And, you know, those are just things that as we move forward,

933
01:27:26,920 --> 01:27:29,920
we're going to have to decide what are our priorities.

934
01:27:29,920 --> 01:27:33,920
No, I fully agree and thank you for saying, and that's just something that's one of those things

935
01:27:33,920 --> 01:27:38,920
I think we should just like keep saying because it takes a lot of communication to break through,

936
01:27:38,920 --> 01:27:41,920
you know, previous experiences and thinking and I would agree.

937
01:27:41,920 --> 01:27:44,920
I think we've done a great job with that and this is great.

938
01:27:44,920 --> 01:27:46,920
Thank you.

939
01:27:46,920 --> 01:27:48,920
Board Member Hinkins.

940
01:27:48,920 --> 01:27:49,920
Yes, thank you.

941
01:27:49,920 --> 01:27:52,920
And in saying that and you're absolutely correct.

942
01:27:52,920 --> 01:27:57,920
One of the goals I know is to try to get all the board members to,

943
01:27:57,920 --> 01:28:00,920
if they're in a committee or not to be present.

944
01:28:00,920 --> 01:28:09,920
And the clunkiness, it speaks to the, you know, if things being recorded.

945
01:28:09,920 --> 01:28:12,920
And I know we've had some clunkiness to that.

946
01:28:12,920 --> 01:28:16,920
Because if we all want to be, you know, the idea is to when we come to board meetings,

947
01:28:16,920 --> 01:28:23,920
we're all prepared to know what already was said in the, you know, not just rely on the board report

948
01:28:23,920 --> 01:28:27,920
by the committee chairs, but also have been present.

949
01:28:27,920 --> 01:28:28,920
That's the goal.

950
01:28:28,920 --> 01:28:30,920
But if they can't, to listen to it.

951
01:28:30,920 --> 01:28:36,920
So, yes, it is transparency, but it's also a good tool for board members who can't be present

952
01:28:36,920 --> 01:28:40,920
at a committee that they're not a part of but still want to be involved as we all do.

953
01:28:40,920 --> 01:28:48,920
So, yeah, I'm just saying we do need to iron that out so I can access if I can't make a policy committee.

954
01:28:48,920 --> 01:28:52,920
You know, so I know that you're saying that I'm just reiterating.

955
01:28:52,920 --> 01:28:55,920
It's not only for transparency, but it's for us.

956
01:28:55,920 --> 01:28:56,920
Thank you.

957
01:28:56,920 --> 01:28:58,920
Thank you.

958
01:28:58,920 --> 01:29:06,920
Is there a motion to continue with this current cadence through the end of the calendar year?

959
01:29:06,920 --> 01:29:07,920
So moved.

960
01:29:07,920 --> 01:29:08,920
Second.

961
01:29:09,920 --> 01:29:12,920
Motion by Carol Fox, seconded by Megan Miller.

962
01:29:12,920 --> 01:29:14,920
Any discussion?

963
01:29:14,920 --> 01:29:17,920
Hearing none, all in favor?

964
01:29:17,920 --> 01:29:18,920
Aye.

965
01:29:18,920 --> 01:29:19,920
Aye.

966
01:29:19,920 --> 01:29:20,920
Aye.

967
01:29:20,920 --> 01:29:21,920
Any opposed?

968
01:29:21,920 --> 01:29:26,920
Motion carries unanimously.

969
01:29:26,920 --> 01:29:34,920
Our next agenda item is resolution for September submission to WASB.

970
01:29:35,920 --> 01:29:47,920
The purpose of this is board members will discuss submitting any resolutions to WASB by September 15th for the January Convention Delegate Assembly.

971
01:29:47,920 --> 01:29:54,920
Board Clerk Miller, I'm going to turn this over to you if you don't mind.

972
01:29:54,920 --> 01:29:55,920
No, thank you so much.

973
01:29:55,920 --> 01:29:58,920
Well, first I just want to thank everybody.

974
01:29:58,920 --> 01:30:04,920
I sent a really late night email like on Friday just to try to get prepared for this evening.

975
01:30:04,920 --> 01:30:11,920
And we've had some just kid related illnesses and things like that at home that prevented me from being able to have something to upload.

976
01:30:11,920 --> 01:30:18,920
So might want to first apologize for that, but I did would have just included the information more or less that I had sent anyway.

977
01:30:18,920 --> 01:30:20,920
So let me just kind of pull that email up quick.

978
01:30:20,920 --> 01:30:21,920
All right.

979
01:30:21,920 --> 01:30:24,920
So a couple of things in the past.

980
01:30:24,920 --> 01:30:43,920
We have submitted resolutions and I'm going to read through a little bit of that for both board for us for our benefit about how to move forward and also just to sort of, you know, highlight, we did submit a successfully adopted resolution within the last few years, which was, you know, it's something to be very proud of.

981
01:30:43,920 --> 01:30:47,920
So I wanted to congratulate our board for doing that.

982
01:30:47,920 --> 01:30:57,920
The issues that have been prevalent in our discussions have to do, of course, with funding and also, you know, there's been some environmental stewardship discussions as well.

983
01:30:57,920 --> 01:31:07,920
So I did take some time last week to read through the updated resolutions committee booklet, which is available to all of us and I included the link in the email as well.

984
01:31:07,920 --> 01:31:10,920
It was also in the email that President Johnson forwarded to us.

985
01:31:11,920 --> 01:31:16,920
In that spirit here, there already are current resolutions and the resolutions committee for WASB.

986
01:31:16,920 --> 01:31:20,920
They won't adopt a new resolution if there's already one that kind of covers that.

987
01:31:20,920 --> 01:31:23,920
So that's why I wanted to include that for context.

988
01:31:23,920 --> 01:31:39,920
And I'm not going to name all the numbers for everybody, but we already have in the WASB advocacy book, an item that advocates for some sufficient, not some certain because some certain is like certain to not be enough, but some sufficient funding for public education.

989
01:31:39,920 --> 01:31:50,920
Ensuring every child can access sound basic education, which is the language in the state constitution under Article 10, Section 3, which is conveniently on my little sticker here, which we should all get.

990
01:31:50,920 --> 01:31:55,920
Anyway, so pervents and verse void ruling from back in, I think it was like 2000.

991
01:31:55,920 --> 01:32:05,920
There's also already a resolution that we submitted that was adopted that the state adopt all of the recommendations from the bipartisan blue ribbon commission.

992
01:32:05,920 --> 01:32:14,920
There is one that advocates for, again, some sufficient special education funding at a minimum of 90% reimbursement rate, which is what private schools get already.

993
01:32:14,920 --> 01:32:22,920
There is a resolution that advocates for class size reduction funding to return, which many of us who are teachers or have been teachers remember.

994
01:32:22,920 --> 01:32:30,920
There's one already that advocates for a high poverty categorical aid category, essentially, which we don't have.

995
01:32:30,920 --> 01:32:39,920
For one of like two or three states, don't quote me on that, I don't remember, but there's just very, very few states that don't have that built into their funding formula already.

996
01:32:39,920 --> 01:32:54,920
So there's also one that already advocates for public dollars to solely fund public schools, as well as supports a requirement for tax bills to show how many local dollars fund voucher and charter schools, which is a really popular kind of trend right now.

997
01:32:54,920 --> 01:33:04,920
Green Bay just recently did this, and it's something we should incidentally probably look to work out with the city of Deloitte, but not necessarily something we would have to put in a WASB piece here.

998
01:33:04,920 --> 01:33:14,920
So lastly, there's one already that advocates for districts to be able to use all legally available funding sources for renewable energy and energy conservation projects.

999
01:33:14,920 --> 01:33:26,920
And there's also an entire section devoted to a very long list of things to reform the equalization aid formula to decrease the burden on property taxpayers, which thereby would also like reduce the need for districts to even go to referendum for operational purposes.

1000
01:33:26,920 --> 01:33:37,920
So that's the background. And again, the purpose of these WASB resolutions are so that WASB can advocate on the behalf of not just us, but all public school districts to improve, you know, the state funding and we have a budget coming up, right?

1001
01:33:37,920 --> 01:33:42,920
2729 budget is upon us very soon, as Mr. Shoeve mentioned. So possible next steps.

1002
01:33:42,920 --> 01:33:51,920
I do think that it would be good to have some kind of meeting, maybe at our next committee meeting, that is a meeting of like a convened, like a legislative focus.

1003
01:33:51,920 --> 01:34:06,920
Mr. Shoeve certainly, you know, can facilitate that if he is willing to, or however you guys want to do that, not only to kind of finalize a potential resolution or resolutions, but also to kind of delineate what should our budget priorities be for our own school district advocacy

1004
01:34:06,920 --> 01:34:14,920
for the upcoming 2729 state budget. So I did want to throw that out there for discussion or consideration.

1005
01:34:14,920 --> 01:34:24,920
The two resolutions having read through these a few times and thought about it that I think we should consider drafting, and if there's consensus, I'd be happy to put these drafts together.

1006
01:34:24,920 --> 01:34:35,920
One would be writing resolution advocating that in addition to prioritizing all these existing resolutions, we would like a hold harmless for districts that lose 10% or more of their students to open enrollment.

1007
01:34:35,920 --> 01:34:43,920
And including to a charter school or private school to have some sort of like hold harmless in the funding formula.

1008
01:34:43,920 --> 01:34:52,920
So that would not only help, of course, the school district, but you know, I was just talking to somebody today, like school district of white water already loses a ton of their students to open enrollment in general.

1009
01:34:52,920 --> 01:35:02,920
And it would be really helpful, I think as well, to like our rural school districts and things like that are already like struggling with a variety of lack of access to resources, preserve funding.

1010
01:35:02,920 --> 01:35:12,920
It would also help the state streamline its funding and balance things into like funding a school system versus funding to parallel ones, which is exhausting our state resources,

1011
01:35:12,920 --> 01:35:17,920
which is why there is a lawsuit against the state right now for doing so. So that would be one thing to consider.

1012
01:35:17,920 --> 01:35:28,920
Another thing to consider might be for charter schools that are within traditional district boundaries not to be able to receive a per pupil rate that is higher than the public school district. So, for example,

1013
01:35:28,920 --> 01:35:37,920
you know, we get X amount per pupil for students in school to exploit, but you know, other like charter and voucher schools around here, some of them get a higher per pupil.

1014
01:35:37,920 --> 01:35:45,920
So when we lose students to those schools, we're not just losing our per pupil. We're actually paying additional funds because the state sets those rates, right?

1015
01:35:45,920 --> 01:35:52,920
Like we don't have any agency over that at all. So that would be another thing to consider. And then lastly, I mean, there's already some energy around this from DPI.

1016
01:35:52,920 --> 01:36:04,920
I shared a link with Board President Johnson earlier to create asking the state to create either grant funding or some kind of funding opportunities for districts to upgrade energy efficient and renewable energy infrastructure.

1017
01:36:04,920 --> 01:36:14,920
Not only so that we can be long term good stewards of our tax dollars and exhibit good environmental stewardship, but also as like, you know, there's like climate change related like weather stuff.

1018
01:36:14,920 --> 01:36:23,920
It could potentially be like an insurance savings if we're able to put in facilities that help anticipate and be proactive right against like major weather events and things like that.

1019
01:36:23,920 --> 01:36:39,920
So those are some things. And I guess I know I've talked a lot. So thank you all so much for listening. I guess I would look, I'm looking for some direction from the board or some feedback about the extent to which we would like to draft all or any of these or any additional resolutions to submit for consideration.

1020
01:36:40,920 --> 01:36:52,920
Thank you, Board Clerk Miller. Are there any board members that have any questions, comments or suggestions for potential resolutions for this year's WSB?

1021
01:36:53,920 --> 01:37:21,920
Well, Ms. Miller, I can get behind all of these as we have discussed offline that, you know, I always have an interest in the energy efficiency and the long term effects that that can have on a community and looking at other school districts.

1022
01:37:21,920 --> 01:37:29,920
What they've done and where they're actually receiving funds from their solar fields that they have.

1023
01:37:29,920 --> 01:37:37,920
And I think that would be something that we should probably look into.

1024
01:37:37,920 --> 01:37:43,920
Would you like assistance in writing any of these?

1025
01:37:43,920 --> 01:37:57,920
What I would say is, of course, and it might be something, if we want to post something we could, I'm willing to set aside a data time that works for other people to just come here with my computer and knock these out.

1026
01:37:57,920 --> 01:38:09,920
I'm free Friday afternoon or I guess the timeline, I'll defer to you in terms of when you would want us to meet to actually formally approve it and then maybe we could backwards plan a date or some dates from there.

1027
01:38:09,920 --> 01:38:15,920
But otherwise, I'm more than happy to just do it to and just send a draft out for people to kind of give feedback on whatever.

1028
01:38:15,920 --> 01:38:21,920
Okay, because of the timeline, this will have to be on one of our special Monday meetings.

1029
01:38:21,920 --> 01:38:31,920
But I'm okay with that as long as you are, I mean, right now it doesn't look like we're scheduled to have another regular board meeting for the 15th.

1030
01:38:31,920 --> 01:38:33,920
So either way, it would be a special meeting.

1031
01:38:33,920 --> 01:38:40,920
Well, I'll tell you what, I'll just throw out an open invitation. Anybody who wants to hang with me here, or this call I opened here on Friday.

1032
01:38:40,920 --> 01:38:48,920
Cool, I'm going to hang in the library. I'm going to hang in the lobby here at like, I don't know, 1.32 o'clock on Friday and draft some of these.

1033
01:38:48,920 --> 01:38:52,920
And if nobody shows up, that's totally cool. And I'll just send out a draft.

1034
01:38:52,920 --> 01:38:55,920
We just can't make edits because otherwise it counts as a meeting.

1035
01:38:55,920 --> 01:38:57,920
So I'm not going to send out like an editable document.

1036
01:38:57,920 --> 01:39:03,920
But if then if you have feedback, if you just give it directly to me, then I can make those changes and send revised drafts out to the board.

1037
01:39:03,920 --> 01:39:11,920
Wonderful, thank you. We greatly appreciate your work on that and taking the lead with that. I really appreciate that.

1038
01:39:11,920 --> 01:39:12,920
Thank you.

1039
01:39:12,920 --> 01:39:22,920
Our next agenda item is policy 443.5 student use of mobile phone.

1040
01:39:22,920 --> 01:39:31,920
The purpose of this is to review the proposal from the high school team that presented in May and was asked to bring back a proposal for the committee.

1041
01:39:31,920 --> 01:39:34,920
Committee Chair Fox.

1042
01:39:34,920 --> 01:39:51,920
So the committee did take some of the recommendations from the high school and we actually have a policy here that we are looking for the board to look at and approve for the first reading.

1043
01:39:51,920 --> 01:39:55,920
It's not that difficult.

1044
01:39:55,920 --> 01:40:04,920
We changed mobile phones to personal electronic devices because there's many iterations of what an electronic device would be.

1045
01:40:04,920 --> 01:40:16,920
We added a definition actually of what electronic devices include and also includes headsets and earbuds and some of those kinds of things.

1046
01:40:17,920 --> 01:40:30,920
We also put in a definition of instructional time so that the entirety of the class period is an instructional time, which the devices are prohibited during any instructional time.

1047
01:40:30,920 --> 01:40:38,920
There are other designated time student meetings, student assemblies, field trips, those kinds of things were added to that definition.

1048
01:40:39,920 --> 01:40:48,920
I think some of these limited exceptions were included somewhere, but they've been sort of rearranged and rewritten.

1049
01:40:48,920 --> 01:41:01,920
So there are, of course, needs for some people to have certain devices, students with disability, if they're using it for a specific class, a health need, and those kinds of things.

1050
01:41:02,920 --> 01:41:07,920
We are allowing a limited mobile phone usage.

1051
01:41:07,920 --> 01:41:13,920
Students can use mobile phones before and after school.

1052
01:41:13,920 --> 01:41:16,920
And pretty much for most of the kids, that's it.

1053
01:41:16,920 --> 01:41:23,920
And then at the high school that they can use their mobile phones during the lunch period and during passing periods.

1054
01:41:24,920 --> 01:41:35,920
That also says that the schools may issue specific directives about enforcement and storage and possession and usage.

1055
01:41:35,920 --> 01:41:46,920
That meets the high school's need for, they have a system they're using for, kids are supposed to bring their phones in and they store them in a certain spot in everybody's classroom.

1056
01:41:47,920 --> 01:41:52,920
So there are still some prohibitions.

1057
01:41:52,920 --> 01:41:54,920
Those were in the original.

1058
01:41:54,920 --> 01:41:58,920
They're just narrowed down to two.

1059
01:41:58,920 --> 01:42:03,920
And those numbers would be gone if you're looking at that.

1060
01:42:03,920 --> 01:42:15,920
So it's the prohibition, the green, the use of personal electronic advice, and it goes over to where it would be number three, but that's going to come out to take photographs or to receive on and up.

1061
01:42:16,920 --> 01:42:21,920
So anything that's illegal, of course.

1062
01:42:21,920 --> 01:42:44,920
This, the one that was on the board ducts, is not correct in that second paragraph there under the bullet point, the race color, national origin, sexual orientation, that phrase that you can't use any device for the purpose of harassing based on those things.

1063
01:42:44,920 --> 01:42:48,920
And that phrase got taken out and it was supposed to be put back in.

1064
01:42:48,920 --> 01:42:52,920
So we will make sure that that gets put back in.

1065
01:42:52,920 --> 01:43:13,920
And then we do want to have a parent notification, a parent student notification so they understand completely the policy and particularly the cell phone piece that basically only cell phones are allowed only at certain times and they can't use headphones or earbuds or any of those kinds of things when they're using them.

1066
01:43:13,920 --> 01:43:18,920
And then, of course, the consequences would be subject to disciplinary action.

1067
01:43:18,920 --> 01:43:23,920
So that's the new cell phone pals.

1068
01:43:23,920 --> 01:43:24,920
Thank you, Chair Foxx.

1069
01:43:24,920 --> 01:43:30,920
Are there any board member questions or comments?

1070
01:43:30,920 --> 01:43:40,920
I will entertain a motion to move to recommend to the full board of education the revisions of policy 443.5.

1071
01:43:41,920 --> 01:43:44,920
Well, I'm sorry, this must be.

1072
01:43:44,920 --> 01:43:48,920
It said.

1073
01:43:48,920 --> 01:43:55,920
Yeah, but it says move to to the full board, the revisions for first reading.

1074
01:43:55,920 --> 01:43:58,920
It should just be move approval.

1075
01:43:58,920 --> 01:43:59,920
Okay.

1076
01:43:59,920 --> 01:44:08,920
Take out the recommended to should just be move approval to of the revisions of the policy for first reading.

1077
01:44:09,920 --> 01:44:13,920
I tried to update it, but it probably didn't carry over during the meeting.

1078
01:44:13,920 --> 01:44:19,920
Okay, this is first reading approval.

1079
01:44:19,920 --> 01:44:23,920
Okay, so recommendation to move approval.

1080
01:44:23,920 --> 01:44:36,920
The revisions of policy for for 3.5 student use of mobile phone with the new name student use of personal electronics devices for first reading.

1081
01:44:37,920 --> 01:44:39,920
So moved.

1082
01:44:39,920 --> 01:44:41,920
Second.

1083
01:44:41,920 --> 01:44:45,920
And I'll add that phrase back in by second reading.

1084
01:44:45,920 --> 01:44:46,920
Okay, thank you.

1085
01:44:46,920 --> 01:44:49,920
So the motion was by Joanne Ru seconded by Carol Fox.

1086
01:44:49,920 --> 01:44:51,920
If there are no quick.

1087
01:44:51,920 --> 01:44:53,920
Tom Hankins.

1088
01:44:53,920 --> 01:44:55,920
Just discussion.

1089
01:44:55,920 --> 01:45:00,920
It's first reading school starting when we're going to do the second reading.

1090
01:45:00,920 --> 01:45:03,920
And if we can wave it and do the second reading.

1091
01:45:04,920 --> 01:45:08,920
So the students all have this policy in hand by the time they get to school.

1092
01:45:08,920 --> 01:45:13,920
Just a question.

1093
01:45:13,920 --> 01:45:14,920
We.

1094
01:45:14,920 --> 01:45:15,920
We.

1095
01:45:15,920 --> 01:45:16,920
Yes.

1096
01:45:16,920 --> 01:45:20,920
Yeah, that's correct.

1097
01:45:20,920 --> 01:45:22,920
And various.

1098
01:45:22,920 --> 01:45:24,920
We do have a motion and a second.

1099
01:45:24,920 --> 01:45:27,920
So we would have to vote on it and vote it down.

1100
01:45:28,920 --> 01:45:30,920
And.

1101
01:45:30,920 --> 01:45:31,920
But.

1102
01:45:31,920 --> 01:45:35,920
Oh, yeah, we could we can't amend it.

1103
01:45:35,920 --> 01:45:40,920
Let me before we do though, I'd like to ask Dr. Gordon.

1104
01:45:40,920 --> 01:45:45,920
Would you prefer to have this done now?

1105
01:45:45,920 --> 01:45:48,920
I think that would be a good idea since the restarting school.

1106
01:45:48,920 --> 01:45:51,920
It's hard to take things away once we give them.

1107
01:45:51,920 --> 01:45:52,920
Yeah.

1108
01:45:52,920 --> 01:45:53,920
Okay.

1109
01:45:53,920 --> 01:45:56,920
Is there an amendment?

1110
01:45:56,920 --> 01:45:59,920
So can I amend it since it was my motion?

1111
01:45:59,920 --> 01:46:05,920
So we're going to have this be the final reading rather than first reading.

1112
01:46:05,920 --> 01:46:07,920
With the suggested changes.

1113
01:46:07,920 --> 01:46:08,920
Yes.

1114
01:46:08,920 --> 01:46:13,920
That was that was part of the original motion, though.

1115
01:46:13,920 --> 01:46:14,920
I will second it.

1116
01:46:14,920 --> 01:46:15,920
Okay.

1117
01:46:15,920 --> 01:46:18,920
So we again have for the amendment.

1118
01:46:18,920 --> 01:46:21,920
Changing it from first reading to final reading.

1119
01:46:21,920 --> 01:46:25,920
Motion by Joanne Ru and a second by Carol Fox.

1120
01:46:25,920 --> 01:46:30,920
We are voting on the amendment to change first reading to final reading.

1121
01:46:30,920 --> 01:46:32,920
Any questions?

1122
01:46:32,920 --> 01:46:33,920
All in favor.

1123
01:46:33,920 --> 01:46:34,920
Aye.

1124
01:46:34,920 --> 01:46:35,920
Aye.

1125
01:46:35,920 --> 01:46:36,920
Aye.

1126
01:46:36,920 --> 01:46:38,920
Any opposed?

1127
01:46:38,920 --> 01:46:41,920
The amendment carries unanimously.

1128
01:46:41,920 --> 01:46:46,920
Now we are voting on the motion to move approval.

1129
01:46:46,920 --> 01:46:49,920
Any questions or comments?

1130
01:46:49,920 --> 01:46:50,920
All in favor.

1131
01:46:50,920 --> 01:46:51,920
Aye.

1132
01:46:51,920 --> 01:46:52,920
Aye.

1133
01:46:52,920 --> 01:46:53,920
Aye.

1134
01:46:53,920 --> 01:46:54,920
Aye.

1135
01:46:54,920 --> 01:46:56,920
Motion carries unanimously.

1136
01:46:56,920 --> 01:46:57,920
Thank you.

1137
01:46:57,920 --> 01:47:03,920
Chair Fox.

1138
01:47:03,920 --> 01:47:08,920
Our next item tonight is grant funded positions.

1139
01:47:08,920 --> 01:47:15,920
The purpose of this is to present recommend recommended positions for approval.

1140
01:47:15,920 --> 01:47:17,920
Dr. Gordon.

1141
01:47:17,920 --> 01:47:18,920
Yeah.

1142
01:47:18,920 --> 01:47:19,920
Thank you.

1143
01:47:19,920 --> 01:47:25,920
We had brought to committees two different categories of positions.

1144
01:47:25,920 --> 01:47:33,920
One with one would be for behaviors and one would be for foundational literacy support.

1145
01:47:33,920 --> 01:47:40,920
So we are looking to of course support our early learners in their literacy.

1146
01:47:40,920 --> 01:47:48,920
The paraprofessional would be to provide targeted targeted instruction to elementary students to strengthen literacy skills.

1147
01:47:48,920 --> 01:47:56,920
So that the parapro would work with the literacy coach and the interventionist to help work with the students.

1148
01:47:56,920 --> 01:48:04,920
And our behavior interventionist would work under the direction of the special education and student services team.

1149
01:48:04,920 --> 01:48:12,920
So I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Stengel to talk about the paraprofessional position first and then I will turn it over to student services.

1150
01:48:19,920 --> 01:48:24,920
Yeah, good evening everybody.

1151
01:48:24,920 --> 01:48:32,920
So you have the attachment for the early reading paraprofessional position.

1152
01:48:32,920 --> 01:48:39,920
So this would be funded through Title 1.

1153
01:48:40,920 --> 01:48:56,920
The position would provide a short targeted individual small group reading interventions for our young students identified through ACT 20 and other literacy data that is listed here.

1154
01:48:56,920 --> 01:49:03,920
Also classroom performance foundational skills assessments and progress monitoring results.

1155
01:49:03,920 --> 01:49:13,920
Support would focus on foundational reading skills including phonemic awareness, phonics, decoding, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.

1156
01:49:13,920 --> 01:49:25,920
So a licensed reading specialist would identify students, plan or approve the lessons, select materials, monitor implementation and review student progress.

1157
01:49:25,920 --> 01:49:30,920
Then the paraprofessional would deliver and document the assigned interventions.

1158
01:49:31,920 --> 01:49:39,920
The services would supplement, not replace classroom instruction, reading specialist or special education services.

1159
01:49:39,920 --> 01:49:49,920
Effectiveness would be measured through student growth, intervention attendance and frequency, instructional fidelity, accurate documentation and regular progress monitoring.

1160
01:49:49,920 --> 01:49:57,920
Student groups and interventions would be adjusted based on data with the overall goal of providing early support.

1161
01:49:57,920 --> 01:50:02,920
Before reading difficulties become more persistent.

1162
01:50:02,920 --> 01:50:19,920
Additionally, this would be four positions for FTEs looking at Merrill, Hackett, Robinson and Todd.

1163
01:50:20,920 --> 01:50:32,920
They would be funded through Title 1 and will ensure consistent, dedicated support for our youngest learners at the point where early intervention has the greatest long term impact.

1164
01:50:32,920 --> 01:50:42,920
This position will have a significant amount of professional learning on reading foundational skills and meetings regarding student data.

1165
01:50:42,920 --> 01:50:46,920
Included in your documents is a corresponding job description.

1166
01:50:46,920 --> 01:50:55,920
The position will be on a 192 day calendar, seven and a half hours per day with compensation based on the classified staff compensation matrix.

1167
01:50:55,920 --> 01:51:01,920
Column C02 with a start starting our early range of $16.78.

1168
01:51:05,920 --> 01:51:08,920
Thank you so much. This is a lovely presentation.

1169
01:51:08,920 --> 01:51:13,920
I am just calling attention to like the weather situation and so I have no disrespect intended.

1170
01:51:13,920 --> 01:51:15,920
You're doing a wonderful job.

1171
01:51:15,920 --> 01:51:18,920
I am just wondering because I don't know what people's commute situations are.

1172
01:51:18,920 --> 01:51:21,920
Would it be wise for us to maybe like go virtual so people have a chance to.

1173
01:51:21,920 --> 01:51:24,920
I don't carry their way. I just wanted to.

1174
01:51:24,920 --> 01:51:26,920
It's a little scary out there right now.

1175
01:51:26,920 --> 01:51:38,920
If board members need to leave board member because I know different we all have different family situations at home board members are free to leave.

1176
01:51:39,920 --> 01:51:45,920
I would prefer that we have four here so that we at least have a quorum to keep the meeting going.

1177
01:51:45,920 --> 01:51:47,920
I will be staying.

1178
01:51:48,920 --> 01:51:49,920
Bill Johnson.

1179
01:51:55,920 --> 01:51:56,920
Okay.

1180
01:51:56,920 --> 01:51:58,920
I apologize for the interruption. Thank you so much.

1181
01:51:59,920 --> 01:52:10,920
If board members need to go you're free to go.

1182
01:52:10,920 --> 01:52:20,920
But like I said I know some of us have different family situations and if you can join virtually I would encourage that.

1183
01:52:21,920 --> 01:52:22,920
Okay.

1184
01:52:22,920 --> 01:52:23,920
Okay.

1185
01:52:23,920 --> 01:52:24,920
Okay.

1186
01:52:24,920 --> 01:52:33,920
So board members are going to.

1187
01:52:33,920 --> 01:52:41,920
It looks like board member Hankins will be leaving and if you can join us virtually that would be wonderful.

1188
01:52:41,920 --> 01:52:48,920
Mrs. Shope if you could send Mr. Hankins the phone number so he can call in.

1189
01:52:48,920 --> 01:52:49,920
Yes I can do that.

1190
01:52:49,920 --> 01:52:50,920
Thank you.

1191
01:52:50,920 --> 01:52:51,920
Thank you.

1192
01:52:51,920 --> 01:52:53,920
I'm sorry about the interruption Dr. Stingle.

1193
01:52:53,920 --> 01:52:57,920
That's that's unusual but appropriate right now.

1194
01:52:57,920 --> 01:53:05,920
Not a problem.

1195
01:53:05,920 --> 01:53:12,920
So Gaston and Converse are not included in this because they are getting the open literacy.

1196
01:53:13,920 --> 01:53:16,920
Sky rocket program correct.

1197
01:53:16,920 --> 01:53:21,920
That that's a part of the reasoning behind it. Yes.

1198
01:53:25,920 --> 01:53:29,920
Are there any other board member questions or comments for Dr. Stingle.

1199
01:53:29,920 --> 01:53:32,920
Dr. Gordon.

1200
01:53:32,920 --> 01:53:38,920
Did you did you want to add anything or continue.

1201
01:53:39,920 --> 01:53:40,920
I'm sorry.

1202
01:53:40,920 --> 01:53:41,920
No.

1203
01:53:41,920 --> 01:53:42,920
No.

1204
01:53:42,920 --> 01:53:51,920
I would like to move approval of the paraprofessional literacy positions as described second.

1205
01:53:51,920 --> 01:53:52,920
Okay.

1206
01:53:52,920 --> 01:54:07,920
So we have a motion by Carol Fox and a second by Dan Shoeff to approve the paraprofessional foundational literacy support positions as presented.

1207
01:54:08,920 --> 01:54:09,920
All in favor.

1208
01:54:09,920 --> 01:54:10,920
Aye.

1209
01:54:10,920 --> 01:54:11,920
Aye.

1210
01:54:11,920 --> 01:54:14,920
Motion carries unanimously.

1211
01:54:14,920 --> 01:54:18,920
Can I clarify with that Carol and Dan.

1212
01:54:18,920 --> 01:54:19,920
Correct.

1213
01:54:19,920 --> 01:54:20,920
Okay.

1214
01:54:20,920 --> 01:54:21,920
Thank you.

1215
01:54:21,920 --> 01:54:30,920
Is there a motion for approval of restarting the WIP teacher intern program.

1216
01:54:30,920 --> 01:54:33,920
So moved.

1217
01:54:33,920 --> 01:54:34,920
Second.

1218
01:54:34,920 --> 01:54:36,920
Motion by Megan Miller.

1219
01:54:36,920 --> 01:54:38,920
Seconded by Carol Fox.

1220
01:54:38,920 --> 01:54:40,920
Any discussion.

1221
01:54:40,920 --> 01:54:41,920
Hearing none.

1222
01:54:41,920 --> 01:54:43,920
All in favor.

1223
01:54:43,920 --> 01:54:44,920
Aye.

1224
01:54:44,920 --> 01:54:45,920
Aye.

1225
01:54:45,920 --> 01:54:47,920
Motion carries unanimously.

1226
01:54:47,920 --> 01:54:51,920
Is there a motion to approve.

1227
01:54:51,920 --> 01:54:52,920
No.

1228
01:54:52,920 --> 01:54:58,920
I want to hear the presentation for that one.

1229
01:54:58,920 --> 01:54:59,920
Thank you.

1230
01:54:59,920 --> 01:55:05,920
Thank you.

1231
01:55:05,920 --> 01:55:07,920
Director Weir.

1232
01:55:07,920 --> 01:55:08,920
All right.

1233
01:55:08,920 --> 01:55:21,920
The other proposal that we have is to again use some of our title funding to try something different and unique in our district to support some of the behavioral needs.

1234
01:55:21,920 --> 01:55:29,920
The request is to bring on board to the district one BCBA.

1235
01:55:29,920 --> 01:55:32,920
So.

1236
01:55:32,920 --> 01:55:34,920
And then one behavior intervention.

1237
01:55:34,920 --> 01:55:37,920
So BCBSR board certified behavior analysis.

1238
01:55:37,920 --> 01:55:50,920
And then one behavior interventionist to support in our elementary buildings when reviewing the data last year, this last school year, we had 18.

1239
01:55:50,920 --> 01:55:57,920
743 incidents involving 2,202 unique students.

1240
01:55:57,920 --> 01:56:04,920
It's a 17.1% increase in behavior incidences compared to the same period in 2425.

1241
01:56:04,920 --> 01:56:13,920
And only 876 of those in each of the buildings resulted in some form of intervention being provided.

1242
01:56:13,920 --> 01:56:19,920
The majority of those resulted in just exclusionary discipline being provided.

1243
01:56:19,920 --> 01:56:28,920
So out of school suspensions in school suspensions, et cetera.

1244
01:56:28,920 --> 01:56:36,920
When we review our current supports and think about aligning to a similar structure like we have for academics in the district.

1245
01:56:36,920 --> 01:56:42,920
We have a very strong foundation for tier one universal.

1246
01:56:42,920 --> 01:56:48,920
We have good high quality social emotional learning resources that our buildings use.

1247
01:56:48,920 --> 01:56:53,920
Character strong personal people at the elementary levels seven mindsets at the middle school and high school levels.

1248
01:56:53,920 --> 01:57:02,920
But where we've noticed a critical gap in terms of some behavior supports is in that tier two area, which is the targeted intervention.

1249
01:57:02,920 --> 01:57:08,920
So right now currently the majority of that workload falls on student services staff.

1250
01:57:08,920 --> 01:57:16,920
And while they are most certainly in the buildings to support, that is not their primary role and responsibility.

1251
01:57:16,920 --> 01:57:29,920
And so if we're able to pilot this approach, we're having a board certified behavior and that analysis providing some like assessment

1252
01:57:29,920 --> 01:57:40,920
and collaboration with teachers and building a plan and a behavior interventionist then doing the actual individual skill based intervention with students that could alleviate.

1253
01:57:40,920 --> 01:57:52,920
Some of the student services time to focus more on tier three, which is that intensive support, which is really where our school counselor, social workers and sites are supposed to be spending the majority of their time.

1254
01:57:53,920 --> 01:58:03,920
And right now our primary source is to outsource to community supports if those are available and families are able to gain access to those.

1255
01:58:04,920 --> 01:58:27,920
The other thing, so when we think about how we use title, so one of the areas in the plan that we submit to the state specifically asks how we will use title funds to support the efforts to reduce the overuse of discipline practices that remove students from the classroom.

1256
01:58:27,920 --> 01:58:35,920
So again, those exclusionary discipline practices. And so we did right into that narrative looking at this approach.

1257
01:58:35,920 --> 01:58:53,920
It is not the BCBA portion of it is not something that a lot of districts in Wisconsin have, but it is something that we're starting to see other districts explore as behavior is a hot topic across the state in our schools.

1258
01:58:53,920 --> 01:59:13,920
And in one of the most recent work groups that DPI had put out in regards to looking at a state licensure BCBA adding that as a Wisconsin DPI license is something that they're currently going to be looking into right now that department is or that license comes out of the department of health.

1259
01:59:14,920 --> 01:59:23,920
So tell me again, you're looking for one BCPA and one behavior interventionist. Yes.

1260
01:59:23,920 --> 01:59:28,920
And where, how is that going to work and where is this pilot going to be?

1261
01:59:28,920 --> 01:59:38,920
So my recommendation is that they work with Hackett and Todd, and that's just based off of looking at the data of behavior referrals that were logged.

1262
01:59:38,920 --> 01:59:46,920
Those two buildings have the most consistent data and they have the highest number of incidences that have been recorded.

1263
01:59:46,920 --> 01:59:52,920
Has this been discussed with the staff and the principals of these two buildings?

1264
01:59:52,920 --> 01:59:59,920
And there's something that they are looking have or are looking for having.

1265
02:00:00,920 --> 02:00:02,920
It's been discussed with building administration.

1266
02:00:02,920 --> 02:00:04,920
Yes, it was presented to them.

1267
02:00:04,920 --> 02:00:08,920
Do you remember Dr. Gordon?

1268
02:00:08,920 --> 02:00:13,920
It was like maybe a May principal meeting.

1269
02:00:13,920 --> 02:00:15,920
Dr. Anderson was still here at the time.

1270
02:00:15,920 --> 02:00:18,920
Yeah, I think it was May.

1271
02:00:18,920 --> 02:00:19,920
Yeah.

1272
02:00:19,920 --> 02:00:21,920
Mid May.

1273
02:00:22,920 --> 02:00:32,920
Those are two brand new principals and I'm a little concerned about some of that, putting brand new things and pilots in that kind of a situation.

1274
02:00:32,920 --> 02:00:40,920
I also wonder, especially in some of these buildings that I've been looking at is where these people would hang out.

1275
02:00:40,920 --> 02:00:46,920
Because there's just not a lot of space in some of these buildings for people.

1276
02:00:46,920 --> 02:00:48,920
So has that been addressed or discussed?

1277
02:00:49,920 --> 02:00:56,920
I haven't done a lot of work in terms of details around office spaces, locations, anything like that.

1278
02:00:56,920 --> 02:01:01,920
Obviously, the BCBA is a much more fluid position.

1279
02:01:01,920 --> 02:01:08,920
They would be in and out of classrooms doing observations, supporting staff, collecting data on the students that they're looking at.

1280
02:01:08,920 --> 02:01:16,920
We would have to do some work around identifying locations for the behavior interventionists to provide the actual interventions.

1281
02:01:16,920 --> 02:01:28,920
But I would be shocked if student services staff or other staff that have space wouldn't be willing to give up for a period of time throughout the day to allow some of those interventions to occur.

1282
02:01:30,920 --> 02:01:33,920
I'm going to interrupt. We are at eight o'clock.

1283
02:01:33,920 --> 02:01:39,920
Can I get a motion to extend the meeting and in the interest of time?

1284
02:01:39,920 --> 02:01:47,920
Rather than half an hour extension, can we extend it for an hour and try to get through the rest of this agenda quickly?

1285
02:01:47,920 --> 02:01:49,920
So moved.

1286
02:01:49,920 --> 02:01:55,920
Moved by Carol Fox, seconded by Bill Johnson. Any discussion? All in favor?

1287
02:01:55,920 --> 02:01:56,920
Aye.

1288
02:01:56,920 --> 02:01:57,920
Aye.

1289
02:01:57,920 --> 02:02:00,920
Motion carries unanimously.

1290
02:02:00,920 --> 02:02:01,920
Go ahead.

1291
02:02:01,920 --> 02:02:02,920
Are you done?

1292
02:02:02,920 --> 02:02:03,920
Okay.

1293
02:02:03,920 --> 02:02:05,920
Megan Miller.

1294
02:02:06,920 --> 02:02:11,920
Thank you. And thank you, Ms. Fox. Those are really good questions. I appreciate that you raised those.

1295
02:02:11,920 --> 02:02:18,920
I just wanted to comment on, this is a very innovative thing that you're proposing that we do.

1296
02:02:18,920 --> 02:02:21,920
And I just think that's something important to highlight.

1297
02:02:21,920 --> 02:02:22,920
And I really appreciate that.

1298
02:02:22,920 --> 02:02:28,920
We have to be proactive and forward thinking about rapidly changing needs and the landscape of education right now.

1299
02:02:28,920 --> 02:02:30,920
So that's awesome. Thank you for doing that.

1300
02:02:30,920 --> 02:02:38,920
I also wanted to highlight that since we've had to make some budget reductions, you know, and things like health services and things like, you know, of that nature.

1301
02:02:38,920 --> 02:02:49,920
I wanted to put forward, I think, did Rock County, I feel like Rock County declared that like suicide prevention was like a very, it was, it was like a high priority health initiative.

1302
02:02:49,920 --> 02:02:53,920
I don't remember what the language was, but I know we all had to get trained the last couple of years.

1303
02:02:54,920 --> 02:02:58,920
So I feel like it's also to me a matter of safety.

1304
02:02:58,920 --> 02:03:01,920
And so I really am very much in favor of this.

1305
02:03:01,920 --> 02:03:10,920
I have kids who have worked with the student services specialist at Todd and it's important, powerful work that they do.

1306
02:03:10,920 --> 02:03:15,920
And I absolutely want to see their time and resources used for the kids who demonstrate those needs.

1307
02:03:15,920 --> 02:03:19,920
So for those reasons, I'm very much in favor of this.

1308
02:03:20,920 --> 02:03:28,920
I think it increases our capacity and not only just to support the academic, you know, we're about to get a presentation about like how important behaviors are.

1309
02:03:28,920 --> 02:03:34,920
So, you know, to the academic performance piece, I feel like it's also like a student health and safety piece as well.

1310
02:03:34,920 --> 02:03:36,920
So I am in favor of that.

1311
02:03:36,920 --> 02:03:38,920
I don't know if I asked a question or not.

1312
02:03:38,920 --> 02:03:40,920
Those were just things that popped into my head.

1313
02:03:40,920 --> 02:03:43,920
But if you have anything else to share on either of those, that would be great.

1314
02:03:43,920 --> 02:03:44,920
Otherwise I'm good.

1315
02:03:44,920 --> 02:03:45,920
Thanks.

1316
02:03:50,920 --> 02:03:55,920
Yeah, I just for my own personal experience.

1317
02:03:55,920 --> 02:04:06,920
My I've experienced two times now in districts where the classroom needed more support with behavioral needs.

1318
02:04:06,920 --> 02:04:10,920
And I'll say again, Carrie Oscar, she came in.

1319
02:04:10,920 --> 02:04:12,920
She helped me so much.

1320
02:04:12,920 --> 02:04:16,920
I was so thankful for her her expertise.

1321
02:04:17,920 --> 02:04:24,920
I also have been part of a district where a student needed a behavior intervention plan.

1322
02:04:24,920 --> 02:04:30,920
And it never happened because, and that wasn't in Beloit.

1323
02:04:30,920 --> 02:04:34,920
And it never happened because there was nobody to collect the data.

1324
02:04:34,920 --> 02:04:38,920
And so these positions are so important for those reasons.

1325
02:04:39,920 --> 02:04:46,920
And I think having two new principles along with all of these open positions, especially in special ed.

1326
02:04:46,920 --> 02:04:51,920
I think having additional support is a fantastic idea.

1327
02:04:55,920 --> 02:04:56,920
Any other questions or comments?

1328
02:04:57,920 --> 02:05:03,920
Is there a motion to move approval of the board certified behavior,

1329
02:05:03,920 --> 02:05:08,920
behavior analyst and the behavior interventionist positions?

1330
02:05:08,920 --> 02:05:09,920
So moved.

1331
02:05:09,920 --> 02:05:10,920
Second.

1332
02:05:11,920 --> 02:05:13,920
Motion by Joanne Roo.

1333
02:05:13,920 --> 02:05:15,920
Second by Megan Miller.

1334
02:05:15,920 --> 02:05:19,920
Any discussion hearing none?

1335
02:05:19,920 --> 02:05:20,920
All in favor?

1336
02:05:20,920 --> 02:05:21,920
Aye.

1337
02:05:21,920 --> 02:05:22,920
Aye.

1338
02:05:22,920 --> 02:05:23,920
Aye.

1339
02:05:24,920 --> 02:05:28,920
Motion carries unanimously.

1340
02:05:28,920 --> 02:05:35,920
And before we move on to the next one, I just want to make certain.

1341
02:05:35,920 --> 02:05:39,920
Did we get the early reading paraprofessional positions in there too?

1342
02:05:39,920 --> 02:05:40,920
Okay.

1343
02:05:40,920 --> 02:05:41,920
Thank you.

1344
02:05:41,920 --> 02:05:42,920
Okay.

1345
02:05:42,920 --> 02:05:43,920
Wonderful.

1346
02:05:43,920 --> 02:05:44,920
It's team effort.

1347
02:05:44,920 --> 02:05:46,920
That is what this is.

1348
02:05:46,920 --> 02:05:49,920
Our next item is the.

1349
02:05:50,920 --> 02:05:55,920
Yes, as long as you're fine. Can I clarify what that motion would have been?

1350
02:05:55,920 --> 02:06:00,920
I had that the motion for the paraprofessionals was.

1351
02:06:00,920 --> 02:06:02,920
I have to get back to it quick here.

1352
02:06:02,920 --> 02:06:09,920
I had that it was to move approval of four paraprofessional foundational literacy support positions.

1353
02:06:09,920 --> 02:06:13,920
But were there also early reading paraprofessional positions?

1354
02:06:16,920 --> 02:06:17,920
Yes.

1355
02:06:17,920 --> 02:06:18,920
Yes.

1356
02:06:18,920 --> 02:06:23,920
There's how many positions?

1357
02:06:23,920 --> 02:06:25,920
Four.

1358
02:06:25,920 --> 02:06:28,920
Four of each?

1359
02:06:28,920 --> 02:06:30,920
Four of literacy.

1360
02:06:30,920 --> 02:06:34,920
Yeah, I was just four paraprofessional literacy support.

1361
02:06:34,920 --> 02:06:36,920
And then we.

1362
02:06:36,920 --> 02:06:40,920
Two for behavior.

1363
02:06:40,920 --> 02:06:41,920
Two for behavior.

1364
02:06:41,920 --> 02:06:45,920
And then we restarted the WIP intern program.

1365
02:06:46,920 --> 02:06:47,920
That I got.

1366
02:06:47,920 --> 02:06:51,920
So it's just for paraprofessional foundational literacy support positions.

1367
02:06:51,920 --> 02:06:52,920
Correct.

1368
02:06:52,920 --> 02:06:57,920
Early reading paraprofessional positions because I thought I read that in the proposal.

1369
02:06:57,920 --> 02:06:59,920
But I could very well be wrong.

1370
02:06:59,920 --> 02:07:00,920
No, I'm sorry, Michelle.

1371
02:07:00,920 --> 02:07:04,920
There were two early reading paraprofessional positions.

1372
02:07:04,920 --> 02:07:05,920
Four.

1373
02:07:05,920 --> 02:07:06,920
Okay.

1374
02:07:06,920 --> 02:07:08,920
In addition to the board.

1375
02:07:08,920 --> 02:07:18,920
Looking at the board agenda item, it says move approval of the blank paraprofessional foundational literacy support positions.

1376
02:07:18,920 --> 02:07:24,920
And then and blank early reading paraprofessional positions.

1377
02:07:24,920 --> 02:07:25,920
Right.

1378
02:07:25,920 --> 02:07:26,920
Are they the same?

1379
02:07:26,920 --> 02:07:29,920
I didn't know how many there were of each.

1380
02:07:29,920 --> 02:07:32,920
Are these all the same?

1381
02:07:32,920 --> 02:07:34,920
Four paraprofessionals.

1382
02:07:34,920 --> 02:07:36,920
So this is confusing.

1383
02:07:36,920 --> 02:07:37,920
Okay.

1384
02:07:37,920 --> 02:07:38,920
Yep.

1385
02:07:38,920 --> 02:07:43,920
Move approval of four paraprofessional foundational literacy positions.

1386
02:07:43,920 --> 02:07:44,920
So it's one.

1387
02:07:44,920 --> 02:07:45,920
This is just one.

1388
02:07:45,920 --> 02:07:46,920
Okay.

1389
02:07:46,920 --> 02:07:47,920
So this is.

1390
02:07:47,920 --> 02:07:48,920
Okay.

1391
02:07:48,920 --> 02:07:49,920
Okay.

1392
02:07:49,920 --> 02:07:50,920
Okay.

1393
02:07:50,920 --> 02:07:51,920
Thank you.

1394
02:07:51,920 --> 02:07:52,920
Okay.

1395
02:07:52,920 --> 02:07:53,920
So it's.

1396
02:07:53,920 --> 02:07:54,920
You are correct.

1397
02:07:54,920 --> 02:07:55,920
Yep.

1398
02:07:55,920 --> 02:07:58,920
Just four foundational literacy support para educators.

1399
02:07:58,920 --> 02:08:00,920
Thank you.

1400
02:08:01,920 --> 02:08:06,920
The next item is the sale of the right building.

1401
02:08:06,920 --> 02:08:12,920
And the purpose of this is to move forward with the sale of the right school.

1402
02:08:12,920 --> 02:08:16,920
Dr. Gordon, would you like to say anything?

1403
02:08:16,920 --> 02:08:17,920
Sure.

1404
02:08:17,920 --> 02:08:20,920
We would like to move ahead with the sale of right school.

1405
02:08:20,920 --> 02:08:23,920
We have a purchase price offer.

1406
02:08:23,920 --> 02:08:27,920
Full price offer for $325,000.

1407
02:08:28,920 --> 02:08:31,920
The earnest money has already been deposited.

1408
02:08:31,920 --> 02:08:38,920
And we are looking to close on that building in September, September 18th.

1409
02:08:38,920 --> 02:08:41,920
Is there a motion?

1410
02:08:41,920 --> 02:08:46,920
So moved.

1411
02:08:46,920 --> 02:08:47,920
Second.

1412
02:08:47,920 --> 02:08:48,920
Second.

1413
02:08:48,920 --> 02:08:51,920
Motion by Megan Miller, seconded by Dan Shuf.

1414
02:08:51,920 --> 02:08:56,920
Any questions or comments?

1415
02:08:57,920 --> 02:09:01,920
I am excited about this sale.

1416
02:09:01,920 --> 02:09:06,920
And I think it will bring good things to the community in many ways.

1417
02:09:06,920 --> 02:09:08,920
All in favor?

1418
02:09:08,920 --> 02:09:09,920
Aye.

1419
02:09:09,920 --> 02:09:10,920
Aye.

1420
02:09:10,920 --> 02:09:12,920
Aye.

1421
02:09:12,920 --> 02:09:18,920
Motion carries unanimously.

1422
02:09:18,920 --> 02:09:25,920
Our next agenda item is school resource officer program.

1423
02:09:26,920 --> 02:09:36,920
The purpose of this is for the Board of Education to move approval of the school district resource officer SRO program agreement for the 26-27 school year.

1424
02:09:36,920 --> 02:09:43,920
Providing dedicated coverage for the two middle schools and Bloitte Memorial High School.

1425
02:09:43,920 --> 02:09:46,920
Dr. Gordon.

1426
02:09:46,920 --> 02:09:47,920
Yeah.

1427
02:09:47,920 --> 02:09:54,920
So we are looking to move approval of the contract for two SROs.

1428
02:09:54,920 --> 02:09:59,920
One would be split between the two middle schools and one would be for the high school.

1429
02:09:59,920 --> 02:10:03,920
In the past, we have asked for three SROs.

1430
02:10:03,920 --> 02:10:08,920
We do not have three SROs on.

1431
02:10:08,920 --> 02:10:09,920
Sorry.

1432
02:10:09,920 --> 02:10:12,920
We do not have three SROs on for this year.

1433
02:10:12,920 --> 02:10:20,920
If you've heard anything about our police force, we are definitely in a shortage there as well as, you know, it's like teachers here.

1434
02:10:21,920 --> 02:10:29,920
So when we had our meeting with the city and the police department, we kind of talked through these things.

1435
02:10:29,920 --> 02:10:34,920
They're they're discussing or that we were discussing the flexibility of two to three.

1436
02:10:34,920 --> 02:10:40,920
It was that was during a multi year contract when they prepared the final draft.

1437
02:10:40,920 --> 02:10:44,920
They made it a one year agreement and this was for a couple of reasons.

1438
02:10:44,920 --> 02:10:48,920
One was because staffing last year was very difficult.

1439
02:10:48,920 --> 02:10:52,920
We really didn't have three to fill the positions last year.

1440
02:10:52,920 --> 02:10:54,920
So we were kind of left hanging.

1441
02:10:54,920 --> 02:10:57,920
There were some staffing issues there.

1442
02:10:57,920 --> 02:11:04,920
So they're they're taking measures to improve their staff recruitment and retention as well, just like we are.

1443
02:11:04,920 --> 02:11:08,920
And they're hoping to have a staffing rebound as well.

1444
02:11:08,920 --> 02:11:13,920
So and they know that we're facing a fiscal problem as well here.

1445
02:11:14,920 --> 02:11:20,920
So given these concerns, they thought it would be better to offer a one year agreement and revisit it next year.

1446
02:11:20,920 --> 02:11:23,920
And hopefully things will have improved on both ends.

1447
02:11:23,920 --> 02:11:26,920
Thank you, Dan.

1448
02:11:26,920 --> 02:11:33,920
So we had a chance to discuss our cadence for the board meetings.

1449
02:11:33,920 --> 02:11:36,920
I was caught off guard by this.

1450
02:11:37,920 --> 02:11:42,920
So just I don't need to know everything going on in the district as one board member.

1451
02:11:42,920 --> 02:11:48,920
But I was surprised because it feels when I read the materials, which I didn't get to until today.

1452
02:11:48,920 --> 02:11:52,920
It feels like we made this decision at the district based on budget.

1453
02:11:52,920 --> 02:11:58,920
You know, it feels like this was a we were trying to meet a very tight budget.

1454
02:11:58,920 --> 02:12:00,920
So we're we did that.

1455
02:12:00,920 --> 02:12:02,920
Dr. Gordon, it sounds like it's more of a.

1456
02:12:03,920 --> 02:12:14,920
Was a collaborative discussion and even if we were contracted for three last year, we didn't really have three because obviously sworn officers get pulled away from the building.

1457
02:12:14,920 --> 02:12:22,920
If they're needed for high priority issues in the city, I would be much more comfortable.

1458
02:12:22,920 --> 02:12:27,920
Setting, you know, happy to prove things that are in front of us.

1459
02:12:28,920 --> 02:12:30,920
I get it and we don't need to micromanage.

1460
02:12:30,920 --> 02:12:51,920
But I would would like to give the district more of a board direction that we would prefer to have a school resource officer at the junior high or middle school and high school level as soon as possible and give you that flexibility rather than, you know, it feels like this

1461
02:12:52,920 --> 02:13:04,920
came from looks like this letter came from a deputy city manager Kruger kind of all baked up in based on what you guys had discussed.

1462
02:13:04,920 --> 02:13:14,920
So I really would prefer to have the goal of being having a school resource officer at every middle school or high school.

1463
02:13:15,920 --> 02:13:22,920
And so I guess I don't know how to approach that, Dr. Gordon, where we're at and look for you and your team suggestion.

1464
02:13:22,920 --> 02:13:30,920
If that's something that's possible, something to strive for as a board policy goal here.

1465
02:13:30,920 --> 02:13:34,920
Well, it's definitely something to to work for.

1466
02:13:35,920 --> 02:13:43,920
But I do have communications between our district and the city about, you know, discussing between two and three.

1467
02:13:43,920 --> 02:13:50,920
And, you know, it is in here that they're having trouble with staffing and recruitment as well.

1468
02:13:50,920 --> 02:14:03,920
So, but there are, you know, other avenues that we could pursue, you know, very informally, we have talked about those avenues for which we could possibly pursue getting another person.

1469
02:14:04,920 --> 02:14:11,920
You know, but what guaranteeing that is going to be tricky as well because of that staffing issue.

1470
02:14:11,920 --> 02:14:19,920
And, you know, hopefully things will turn around in the boy police department because we would certainly like to employ our own.

1471
02:14:19,920 --> 02:14:29,920
And, you know, it is such a nice thing to have here in our school district, those officers because we really rely on them.

1472
02:14:30,920 --> 02:14:35,920
And just we're hoping that they will be able to get more staff, just like we are.

1473
02:14:39,920 --> 02:14:40,920
Megan Miller.

1474
02:14:40,920 --> 02:14:45,920
Thank you so much. I actually thank you so much for putting this together.

1475
02:14:45,920 --> 02:14:51,920
I really just want to commend like that sounds like some really excellent partnership that's happening between the district and the city.

1476
02:14:51,920 --> 02:14:54,920
And I'm really grateful to you and staff for doing so.

1477
02:14:55,920 --> 02:15:03,920
I know this issue has been, you know, this contract has gone through many iterations and I think that each time we've done it, the process has gotten better and better.

1478
02:15:03,920 --> 02:15:12,920
And it's, at least since I've been on the board, it's been very much driven through like, you know, administration, which I think is important and not driven by the board because we're not the staff and we don't know.

1479
02:15:12,920 --> 02:15:14,920
So, thank you for bringing this.

1480
02:15:14,920 --> 02:15:22,920
From the board level, however, in this isn't directly related, I'm just going to float this as a larger topic as we're engaging in long-range planning.

1481
02:15:22,920 --> 02:15:35,920
It might be a good idea for us at some point to have like a board, city council, touch base, like large view meeting, just to kind of like look at, sorry, look at all of these issues under larger like strategic planning, long-range planning umbrella.

1482
02:15:35,920 --> 02:15:44,920
But I think this is like actually a really good example of how, of the things that we have that are working well, like that they are working quite well in terms of that collaboration.

1483
02:15:44,920 --> 02:15:50,920
So, thank you. And I just wanted to float that kind of city council board kind of idea as well.

1484
02:15:50,920 --> 02:16:00,920
Absolutely. I think that's a great goal. I cannot take credit for the work that was done here. This would be Ryan Turner and Missy's department. So, they've been doing all the work on that.

1485
02:16:00,920 --> 02:16:04,920
So, I just inherited this. So, kudos to them.

1486
02:16:04,920 --> 02:16:14,920
But again, if you have questions and maybe Ryan would be better person to answer some of those, but we would like to have the three officers just saying, but this is where we are right now.

1487
02:16:15,920 --> 02:16:28,920
Okay. So, what does this look like for? I've got a few questions. So, what is, what will this look like for sporting events then?

1488
02:16:33,920 --> 02:16:35,920
It's not related.

1489
02:16:35,920 --> 02:16:38,920
So, this Friday is the first home football game.

1490
02:16:39,920 --> 02:16:49,920
We, I work with the high school team athletics and so on and ask comedy for each sport that they want us to request for the police department to post for overtime.

1491
02:16:49,920 --> 02:16:59,920
So, the SROs, we like them to work, but it's not part of the SRO program. So, hopefully we, like for this Friday, we asked for four. Hopefully we get four. We shall see.

1492
02:17:00,920 --> 02:17:01,920
Be a completely separate.

1493
02:17:01,920 --> 02:17:19,920
Okay. Thank you. If, if it is related to the police force and they're, they're staffing shortage too. Is it possible for us to look at security and like hiring a security person that's not a police officer?

1494
02:17:20,920 --> 02:17:24,920
We already do. The high school, we have six FTE.

1495
02:17:24,920 --> 02:17:32,920
Oh, yeah, we do. Yeah. Okay. So, do we have any at the middle school level security officers to, or I don't know what you call them.

1496
02:17:32,920 --> 02:17:39,920
Yeah, one each. Okay. Well, then if we don't have three police officers or SROs.

1497
02:17:41,920 --> 02:17:46,920
I don't know. Does it make sense to increase the number of security that we have instead?

1498
02:17:47,920 --> 02:17:51,920
Dr. Gordon.

1499
02:17:51,920 --> 02:17:55,920
I'm thinking we have how many security there?

1500
02:17:55,920 --> 02:18:12,920
So, one at Aldrich, one at Frozen, six for the high school plus the BLA FTE transferred over. So, seven in that building for 26, 27.

1501
02:18:12,920 --> 02:18:23,920
Do we need, do we need to hire another security guard, an additional security guard since we will be short one SRO?

1502
02:18:23,920 --> 02:18:29,920
So, a couple of things. One first for bringing this up.

1503
02:18:29,920 --> 02:18:39,920
If our goal, we, we want the three SROs. In fact, when we brought this four years ago, we were looking to add a fourth and so on and so forth.

1504
02:18:40,920 --> 02:18:44,920
I'm always for more security. Don't get around here. You're never going to hear me say no.

1505
02:18:44,920 --> 02:18:58,920
But if we get to a point in the 27, 28 school year, or we can get three or more SROs, then what will the discussion be about this potentially excess want FTE of security.

1506
02:18:58,920 --> 02:19:07,920
So, we can always use security in the district. We can float them around elementary. There's a lot of things we can do, but that's just a consideration that if things improve on the police department side.

1507
02:19:07,920 --> 02:19:12,920
Now we created a position to supplement that is it still needed.

1508
02:19:12,920 --> 02:19:20,920
The other thing is with primarily one SRO will be at the high school. That's a given.

1509
02:19:20,920 --> 02:19:24,920
The other SRO will float between the two buildings, two middle schools.

1510
02:19:24,920 --> 02:19:36,920
It would be interesting to see how we take that extra FTE to support both of those buildings because it's really easy to say Monday, Wednesday, Friday of one week.

1511
02:19:36,920 --> 02:19:45,920
The SRO is at one middle school, Tuesday, Thursday at the other, and then it flips the next week, but their calls require them to go back and forth.

1512
02:19:45,920 --> 02:19:53,920
So, there's no clean way to do that. And if we, again, it would be interesting to see how we make that equal between the buildings.

1513
02:19:53,920 --> 02:19:59,920
Because if we send the SRO from Frues into Aldrich, I can't just tell the security officer to go there.

1514
02:19:59,920 --> 02:20:05,920
And so, again, I'm all for extra security. We can absolutely get our money's worth with those positions.

1515
02:20:05,920 --> 02:20:27,920
Thank you, Mr. Turner. I don't think any of us disagree with wanting more security, especially in today's world, even just recently hearing about the fights at the state fair, which, you know, things just seem to get crazier and crazier every day.

1516
02:20:28,920 --> 02:20:32,920
So, a couple of things that I'd like to say is to remind everybody who's listening.

1517
02:20:32,920 --> 02:20:40,920
Student behavior, yeah, from the first bell to the closing bell is our responsibility.

1518
02:20:40,920 --> 02:20:46,920
All of those other hours, it's the communities and the family's responsibilities.

1519
02:20:46,920 --> 02:20:52,920
Please work with us and teach your students right from wrong and appropriate behavior.

1520
02:20:53,920 --> 02:21:03,920
We continue to encourage all staff members and board members and anyone associated with the school district to model good behavior and respect.

1521
02:21:03,920 --> 02:21:10,920
The other thing that I'd like to say in response to that, I hear you.

1522
02:21:10,920 --> 02:21:15,920
I understand it makes, yeah, what you're saying makes sense.

1523
02:21:15,920 --> 02:21:37,920
However, as we move forward, if this is what the board approves, I want for Dr. Gordon and you to realize if there are concerns and you need another position, please let us know sooner rather than later so we can be working with you to support you in what your needs are.

1524
02:21:38,920 --> 02:21:47,920
And then the last thing I want to remind people is even if buildings don't have SROs, if there is an incident, the police department is called.

1525
02:21:47,920 --> 02:21:54,920
They are called and will respond as soon as they possibly can.

1526
02:21:54,920 --> 02:21:57,920
Any other, Mr. Shuf?

1527
02:21:57,920 --> 02:22:04,920
Mr. Turner, I don't think we've had a chance to meet.

1528
02:22:04,920 --> 02:22:05,920
Nice to see you.

1529
02:22:05,920 --> 02:22:10,920
Question for you and for Dr. Gordon and for TIA, it's kind of collectively.

1530
02:22:10,920 --> 02:22:20,920
What about an idea of having kind of a modified approval where we say that because it hasn't been signed yet, right?

1531
02:22:20,920 --> 02:22:22,920
This is a draft.

1532
02:22:23,920 --> 02:22:27,920
Correct. They have us sign up first and then they take it to City Council.

1533
02:22:27,920 --> 02:22:36,920
So this would be a change that I'm assuming you could get through something along the lines of the school board approves it.

1534
02:22:36,920 --> 02:22:51,920
And we ask that the goal be to have three SROs and then collectively we're given budget authority for three SROs, but we know that, or that we ask that to be made true as soon as possible.

1535
02:22:51,920 --> 02:22:58,920
And we know that they have staffing issues and so on, but just be clear that the board gives budget approval for three.

1536
02:22:58,920 --> 02:23:13,920
We give flexibility for you and we ask you and Deputy Manager Kruger, whoever is negotiating this to make clear that we understand the situation we're in now, but our collective goal is to get back to one in building.

1537
02:23:13,920 --> 02:23:20,920
We all know that the building number of buildings might change in the future, but that's for a different discussion.

1538
02:23:20,920 --> 02:23:29,920
If I may, Missy's trying to find the language, but I have mentioned when you're here four years ago that the intent was to grow the program.

1539
02:23:29,920 --> 02:23:40,920
Three was the baseline hoping to add more. So there was language built into it that allowed us to add that forth without going through multiple levels of approvals and stuff like that. So.

1540
02:23:40,920 --> 02:23:52,920
I think that's what I'm hearing you hoping to incorporate, but like I said, Missy's trying to find the language. So there is precedent that we've done that before.

1541
02:23:52,920 --> 02:23:55,920
Thank you. So while she's looking for that.

1542
02:23:55,920 --> 02:24:02,920
Bill Johnson.

1543
02:24:03,920 --> 02:24:08,920
I believe that there are different jurisdictions along that same lines.

1544
02:24:08,920 --> 02:24:19,920
I believe I read it correctly. The Floyd City Council approved a contract with the sheriff's department to provide extra patrols for the city.

1545
02:24:19,920 --> 02:24:31,920
If that's something we want to look at, we can. I'm just pigging backing off of looking at other jurisdictions, but the any law enforcement agency that we have.

1546
02:24:31,920 --> 02:24:35,920
I think that there are a lot of other things that we want to look at.

1547
02:24:35,920 --> 02:24:56,920
I think that there are a lot of other things that we want to look at within the jurisdiction and it would be the city of Beloit police department, the sheriff's department of the state patrol. Obviously, one makes more sense than the other, but that's just where we are.

1548
02:24:57,920 --> 02:25:09,920
And Dr. Gordon want three or more, but that's just not feasible right now.

1549
02:25:09,920 --> 02:25:13,920
I have a comment here for me.

1550
02:25:13,920 --> 02:25:22,920
That is a case by case thing. I can't speak for them. They, I will say about halfway through the school year.

1551
02:25:23,920 --> 02:25:37,920
Last year, they had some like military relief stuff like that, and they did what they could to pull patrol officers to come and cover the buildings when they could, but their priorities are going to be to the streets.

1552
02:25:37,920 --> 02:25:48,920
So they do what they can do. I wholeheartedly believe that's, but you had just two is what they advise that they could could provide us.

1553
02:25:48,920 --> 02:25:51,920
Tom.

1554
02:25:51,920 --> 02:26:11,920
Thank you. I just want to go back to what Mr. Schup is bringing up. And I think it's, to me, it's like we leave a slide open to pay for this person as we have done for many positions in the district that somehow don't get filled.

1555
02:26:12,920 --> 02:26:22,920
I think what I'm hearing from Dan is, yeah, we want to keep that option open and maybe that's the way it's written. I don't have it in front of me, but just so we keep that slide open in our budget.

1556
02:26:22,920 --> 02:26:31,920
So if we can't add the third person or for it, at least we have budget of the money to do that. Thank you.

1557
02:26:31,920 --> 02:26:34,920
Thank you. Can I make a motion?

1558
02:26:34,920 --> 02:26:37,920
Are you not ready for that? Megan, did you have your hand up?

1559
02:26:37,920 --> 02:26:42,920
I just want to let you know that Bill had his hand up, but yes, please make a motion.

1560
02:26:42,920 --> 02:26:47,920
We did find that language in the old MOU if anybody's interested in hearing that.

1561
02:26:47,920 --> 02:26:55,920
There is a resolution, so we either need to waive moving the resolution or it will need to be read.

1562
02:26:55,920 --> 02:27:00,920
I'd move that we waive reading the resolution.

1563
02:27:01,920 --> 02:27:02,920
Okay.

1564
02:27:02,920 --> 02:27:15,920
There is a motion to waive the reading of the resolution by Megan Miller, seconded by Bill Johnson, all in favor of waiving reading the resolution.

1565
02:27:15,920 --> 02:27:18,920
Aye. Aye. Aye.

1566
02:27:18,920 --> 02:27:29,920
You can give us this language if this doesn't work.

1567
02:27:29,920 --> 02:27:37,920
Aye. Move approval of the updated program agreement and the MOU for the school resource officer program at the two middle schools in high school,

1568
02:27:37,920 --> 02:27:44,920
with approval to move to three SROs if positions become available.

1569
02:27:44,920 --> 02:27:51,920
I'll, okay. I'll second.

1570
02:27:51,920 --> 02:27:56,920
We have a motion by Carol Fox and a second by Megan Miller.

1571
02:27:56,920 --> 02:27:58,920
Oh, yeah, I have a discussion point once you.

1572
02:27:58,920 --> 02:27:59,920
Yep.

1573
02:27:59,920 --> 02:28:07,920
Okay. Missy, Mr. Turner, what are your thoughts? Do we have it right or do we need any modifications to make it better?

1574
02:28:07,920 --> 02:28:13,920
So I'm going to read the language that we found from the last MOU from four years ago.

1575
02:28:13,920 --> 02:28:18,920
The city shall employ three SROs during the initial term in any renewal terms of this agreement.

1576
02:28:18,920 --> 02:28:24,920
If the parties agree that an additional SRO was needed, a written amendment to this agreement shall be made.

1577
02:28:25,920 --> 02:28:33,920
And this reminder, this is it for a one year. It's one year. It's not like it was before.

1578
02:28:33,920 --> 02:28:39,920
I think you have the motion, right? I do for what experience I have in these types of things.

1579
02:28:39,920 --> 02:28:46,920
Just remember this also then needs to go to city council and so there's that dynamic as well.

1580
02:28:47,920 --> 02:28:52,920
So just on the discussion point, I think we have it right. We're we're not approving a very specific one.

1581
02:28:52,920 --> 02:29:03,920
We're approving all the rest of the specifics with with administrations goal to go convince our friends at the city that this is what we all want.

1582
02:29:03,920 --> 02:29:11,920
And I, you know, I think we'll be successful at that. So I think Dr. Gordon, does that seem to be okay where we're at on this?

1583
02:29:11,920 --> 02:29:15,920
In your opinion? Yeah, it should be okay. All right. Thank you.

1584
02:29:16,920 --> 02:29:19,920
Any other board member? Mr. Johnson.

1585
02:29:27,920 --> 02:29:35,920
Part time or police. They, the city of boy police department does not currently have part time police officers.

1586
02:29:38,920 --> 02:29:40,920
Like security wise.

1587
02:29:41,920 --> 02:29:43,920
Those those those might get a lot.

1588
02:29:43,920 --> 02:29:45,920
Your mic's not on apparently. Okay.

1589
02:29:49,920 --> 02:29:52,920
So we're talking part time security.

1590
02:29:54,920 --> 02:30:02,920
It's my thought would be we would have to have FTE approved for me to be able to have sub coverage to go into that.

1591
02:30:02,920 --> 02:30:06,920
Otherwise, it's a fiasco trying to figure out account numbers and then it becomes.

1592
02:30:07,920 --> 02:30:11,920
There's no on it. There's no. Yeah.

1593
02:30:11,920 --> 02:30:13,920
Coming down. Yeah. All right. Thanks.

1594
02:30:15,920 --> 02:30:18,920
Yeah, I have one more question for Ryan. Please go ahead.

1595
02:30:20,920 --> 02:30:26,920
Ryan, what, what does that look like? You talked about the one sharing between frozen and Aldrich.

1596
02:30:27,920 --> 02:30:35,920
And I know you're trying to work this out, but what does that actually look like? You talked about, you know, Monday, Wednesday, Tuesday, Thursday.

1597
02:30:36,920 --> 02:30:41,920
Hours, just curious, how does it, or have you not decided that whole thing yet? Thank you.

1598
02:30:42,920 --> 02:30:51,920
So in the past, the way they, they try to do a schedule and it's just like I, I described now that's the previous administration.

1599
02:30:52,920 --> 02:30:59,920
What that looks like for this. I'm sure I would imagine it would be something similar. There's only so many days in the week.

1600
02:31:00,920 --> 02:31:07,920
But they can never stick to that schedule. If, if on the day that they're assigned to frozen, something comes up at Aldrich, they, they have to go.

1601
02:31:08,920 --> 02:31:16,920
A supervisor could pull the an SRO from the high school to go there, but that's, they have that control, not us.

1602
02:31:17,920 --> 02:31:25,920
When we had four intermediate schools, the SROs were split between those buildings. They had two buildings each and it was the same thing.

1603
02:31:26,920 --> 02:31:38,920
They were put on a schedule and they tried to stick to it as best they could. Sometimes they figured out they would do half days and half days. It just kind of depended on what was going on on those particular days.

1604
02:31:40,920 --> 02:31:41,920
Okay. Thank you.

1605
02:31:43,920 --> 02:31:45,920
Thank you. Any other questions or comments?

1606
02:31:46,920 --> 02:31:55,920
Well, I just have one and I will put a plug in for the Beloit Police Department, just as we are looking for people for our special ed staff.

1607
02:31:56,920 --> 02:32:04,920
Hey, folks, Beloit is a beautiful city. We're on the banks of the beautiful Rock River. We've got lots of wonderful things going on here.

1608
02:32:05,920 --> 02:32:10,920
So if you are interested in serving on the Beloit Police Department, come on down.

1609
02:32:11,920 --> 02:32:17,920
There is a motion and a second by Carol Fox and Megan, seconded by Megan Miller. All in favor?

1610
02:32:18,920 --> 02:32:19,920
Aye.

1611
02:32:20,920 --> 02:32:21,920
Aye.

1612
02:32:22,920 --> 02:32:24,920
Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously.

1613
02:32:25,920 --> 02:32:28,920
Just a quick question. Since we waive the reading of the resolution, we don't need a roll call vote, right?

1614
02:32:29,920 --> 02:32:31,920
That is my understanding.

1615
02:32:32,920 --> 02:32:33,920
Okay. Thanks.

1616
02:32:34,920 --> 02:32:37,920
And if I'm wrong, I apologize in advance.

1617
02:32:38,920 --> 02:32:49,920
Our next item is the final report from the Adhoc Student Success Support Committee.

1618
02:32:50,920 --> 02:32:56,920
Dr. Kim Erhart, Chair of Adhoc Student Success Support and Support Committee.

1619
02:32:57,920 --> 02:33:06,920
The purpose is to share the results of the spring site-based visits to each of the school buildings relative to the implementation of the six steps

1620
02:33:06,920 --> 02:33:09,920
of the Adhoc Plan. Dr. Erhart?

1621
02:33:10,920 --> 02:33:16,920
Good evening, everyone. It's good to be here. I'm going to be clairvoyant because I can already hear this in your heads.

1622
02:33:16,920 --> 02:33:23,920
Can you streamline this presentation? So I'll do that. I'm going to be assisted by Vanna Almonderes.

1623
02:33:24,920 --> 02:33:29,920
She's bringing up the presentation here. So that'll be forthcoming.

1624
02:33:29,920 --> 02:33:32,920
I'll just start to kind of introduce and talk again.

1625
02:33:32,920 --> 02:33:38,920
Again, the Adhoc Committee for Student Success and Support really had come out of.

1626
02:33:39,920 --> 02:33:47,920
Juan Romero was a board member who had written this very extensive document and was really trying to focus attention on the board

1627
02:33:47,920 --> 02:33:52,920
for concerns and challenges with student behavior and student achievement.

1628
02:33:53,920 --> 02:33:57,920
So that's kind of the genesis of our work. I was pleasant to have.

1629
02:33:58,920 --> 02:34:06,920
Joanne Rue was the board member that worked with me and we started going through all the data and we really landed on as we looked at it

1630
02:34:07,920 --> 02:34:17,920
with the whole notion that you will not improve student achievement until you move forward with behavior and the whole student conduct can

1631
02:34:18,920 --> 02:34:23,920
behavior. So that became the focus of all our work and all our plans and all of those sorts of things.

1632
02:34:23,920 --> 02:34:29,920
And we worked on that all year. I've already reported in the fall those particular findings.

1633
02:34:29,920 --> 02:34:38,920
There's a lot of information in the board packet that has the whole presentation and the memo and hopefully that has given you a lot of information.

1634
02:34:38,920 --> 02:34:48,920
So if it's okay, I will move to the conclusions, recommendations, bottom line, the end of the report.

1635
02:34:48,920 --> 02:34:50,920
Is that all right?

1636
02:34:50,920 --> 02:34:51,920
Works for us.

1637
02:34:51,920 --> 02:34:53,920
Okay. Very good.

1638
02:34:53,920 --> 02:34:58,920
Just to let you know that I was able to meet with Dr. Gordon, Dr. Stangel.

1639
02:34:58,920 --> 02:35:06,920
We reviewed all of these because we want to make sure that we're all in alignment with where the district is moving because the Adhoc Committee had

1640
02:35:06,920 --> 02:35:10,920
representatives from the community, the district and the staff.

1641
02:35:10,920 --> 02:35:16,920
So if, all right, well, the first conclusion was we made progress.

1642
02:35:16,920 --> 02:35:25,920
We made progress in our particular effort to improve a universal approach to student conduct and behavior.

1643
02:35:25,920 --> 02:35:34,920
What we discovered early on is that we have certain schools had bits and pieces of things and one of our first decision points was to create a universal plan

1644
02:35:34,920 --> 02:35:36,920
for conduct and behavior.

1645
02:35:36,920 --> 02:35:40,920
And that was the work of our committee in the summer.

1646
02:35:40,920 --> 02:35:47,920
And then that became the work of, throughout the school year, working on that.

1647
02:35:47,920 --> 02:35:54,920
And so in particular, we found, yeah, let's move.

1648
02:35:54,920 --> 02:35:57,920
Keep going.

1649
02:35:57,920 --> 02:36:00,920
There's really good stuff and it will maybe come back on it.

1650
02:36:00,920 --> 02:36:01,920
There we go.

1651
02:36:01,920 --> 02:36:04,920
So again, what we found, all our data, we did pulse checks.

1652
02:36:04,920 --> 02:36:07,920
We did three of those to kind of validate all of our work.

1653
02:36:07,920 --> 02:36:14,920
And we found we had really positive growth with communication of our message and our plan.

1654
02:36:14,920 --> 02:36:18,920
Consistency showed growth over the year.

1655
02:36:18,920 --> 02:36:23,920
School climate also showed some positive results.

1656
02:36:23,920 --> 02:36:29,920
And yeah, those are the areas that really showed the most amount of growth.

1657
02:36:29,920 --> 02:36:31,920
The middle schools did the best.

1658
02:36:31,920 --> 02:36:36,920
When you looked at all the survey data, they had the highest rankings and all of which in particular.

1659
02:36:36,920 --> 02:36:43,920
So Mr. Joe, Principal Joe, we'll get a big award from us for all of that sort of things.

1660
02:36:43,920 --> 02:36:52,920
But in the recommendations, and we also looked at that we would use the work from the middle schools to help instruct others.

1661
02:36:52,920 --> 02:37:11,920
The area in the surveys that we discovered perhaps needs more growth and more development is the perception of the staff relative to the board's support for this initiative and the central office.

1662
02:37:11,920 --> 02:37:21,920
So those are areas that we need to figure out ways so that the staff understands that the central office staff and the board is very interested.

1663
02:37:21,920 --> 02:37:29,920
And as forthright in advancing the goals of this, the data came out the lowest and you can see that in there.

1664
02:37:29,920 --> 02:37:33,920
So that's an area that we'll have to have some continued attention on.

1665
02:37:33,920 --> 02:37:39,920
There are certain schools that didn't do as well as others according to the survey.

1666
02:37:39,920 --> 02:37:49,920
So we talked with district administration about doing some work with them to have some intervention plans and improvement plans so that the perception of the staff

1667
02:37:49,920 --> 02:37:53,920
and the data is positive that way.

1668
02:37:53,920 --> 02:38:06,920
Of course, in our whole study, we saw the whole issue with the human resources part with vacancies and substitutes and all of those kinds of things that we discussed earlier in the meeting.

1669
02:38:06,920 --> 02:38:16,920
Our challenges that are also connected to creating some issues in consistency with our efforts.

1670
02:38:16,920 --> 02:38:22,920
Recommendations, committee is recommending that we continue to study this.

1671
02:38:22,920 --> 02:38:33,920
We continue to do the surveys throughout the school year and continue to keep this as a priority item and even recommending that this is some way, shape, or form a district goal.

1672
02:38:33,920 --> 02:38:43,920
So we continue to look at student conduct and behavior in its supportive student achievement as a particular goal for the upcoming school year.

1673
02:38:43,920 --> 02:38:49,920
Again, we recognized the good work of Aldridge Middle School and they had been working on this before we got going.

1674
02:38:49,920 --> 02:38:55,920
So the principal there has had a strong focus on that for several years.

1675
02:38:55,920 --> 02:39:03,920
So they were able to bring what we worked on the ad hoc and what they were doing ahead of time to move forward with that too.

1676
02:39:03,920 --> 02:39:19,920
The concern that we talked about staff had been requesting a district professional development opportunity or a class for a particular new teachers coming into the system for classroom management.

1677
02:39:20,920 --> 02:39:37,920
Always the biggest struggle of new teachers and so having some sort of option available for them to help deal with that and learn more skills and build their success in that area, strategies and practices.

1678
02:39:37,920 --> 02:39:41,920
So talked with both of the district administrators about doing that.

1679
02:39:41,920 --> 02:39:45,920
Our highest priority is the elementary school.

1680
02:39:45,920 --> 02:39:49,920
The data shows all our school visits.

1681
02:39:49,920 --> 02:39:57,920
Board Member Fox was able to visit all the schools with me in the spring and the elementary as the area of biggest need.

1682
02:39:57,920 --> 02:40:08,920
And most of that kind of shows up with kids with some really unique and challenging behavior and they're outside the regular kind of realm of what I would consider school.

1683
02:40:08,920 --> 02:40:11,920
So some of very unique sort of situations.

1684
02:40:11,920 --> 02:40:20,920
So some of the information I heard tonight about behavioral specialists and the efforts to focus that way should be supportive of that.

1685
02:40:20,920 --> 02:40:32,920
And then I know the district Dr. Anderson was looking at some sort of alternative educational program at the elementary level.

1686
02:40:33,920 --> 02:40:37,920
And that proposal was approved by the board.

1687
02:40:37,920 --> 02:40:45,920
And the planning information now will be coming back to a TL meeting soon as I understand it.

1688
02:40:45,920 --> 02:40:48,920
So we'll be able to hear more of that so that can be part of the plan.

1689
02:40:48,920 --> 02:40:56,920
So we had our committee really supported that whole move and wanting to move that forward.

1690
02:40:56,920 --> 02:41:05,920
Bottom line, get to that.

1691
02:41:05,920 --> 02:41:13,920
So what we discovered in this whole effort looking at student conduct and behavior to raise and enhance student achievement is the effort,

1692
02:41:13,920 --> 02:41:20,920
to develop this universal plan and stay focused on it and attend to it throughout the school year showed credible improvement.

1693
02:41:20,920 --> 02:41:28,920
So we had growth again in communication of the plan, consistent the plan and then raising classroom climate.

1694
02:41:28,920 --> 02:41:30,920
However, there is certainly work to do.

1695
02:41:30,920 --> 02:41:34,920
And if you look inside the report, you can see that there needs to be more attention.

1696
02:41:34,920 --> 02:41:39,920
And one of the things that we found from the ad hoc committee, people are saying,

1697
02:41:39,920 --> 02:41:45,920
and especially from our school principals as we visited those sites, you have to stay on it.

1698
02:41:45,920 --> 02:41:46,920
You have to stay on it.

1699
02:41:46,920 --> 02:41:50,920
It's not something you do in September and forget about BIACS.

1700
02:41:50,920 --> 02:41:56,920
And particularly the middle schools that are most effective, you know, they don't give any direction.

1701
02:41:56,920 --> 02:42:02,920
They don't hardly say anything out without some sort of connection to how you're going to conduct and behave yourself.

1702
02:42:02,920 --> 02:42:05,920
So it's very embedded in all their messaging.

1703
02:42:05,920 --> 02:42:13,920
So a piece of success is to embed and continue to support that particular message.

1704
02:42:13,920 --> 02:42:20,920
The pulse trucks are valuable again for helping us keep track and stay focused on our energy.

1705
02:42:21,920 --> 02:42:22,920
And...

1706
02:42:27,920 --> 02:42:32,920
Appreciations, again, Joanne Ruhl helped and assist with this.

1707
02:42:32,920 --> 02:42:34,920
We appreciate that.

1708
02:42:34,920 --> 02:42:38,920
Tia Johnson helped first semester do all the school visits.

1709
02:42:38,920 --> 02:42:43,920
Carol Fox assisted second semester in doing all those things.

1710
02:42:43,920 --> 02:42:46,920
I don't know if you have anything you'd like to add to.

1711
02:42:46,920 --> 02:42:52,920
Please do this very quickly, but I think the written documentation in there is more eloquent perhaps.

1712
02:42:55,920 --> 02:42:57,920
Thank you, Dr. Earhart.

1713
02:42:57,920 --> 02:43:00,920
Are there any board member questions at this time?

1714
02:43:00,920 --> 02:43:01,920
Megan Miller.

1715
02:43:04,920 --> 02:43:05,920
Thank you.

1716
02:43:05,920 --> 02:43:08,920
Yeah, thanks to everybody who participated in the ad hoc for sure.

1717
02:43:08,920 --> 02:43:13,920
I want to go back to just a couple of things from your conclusions and recommendations.

1718
02:43:14,920 --> 02:43:19,920
First, I love that we were able to identify kind of that communication gap.

1719
02:43:19,920 --> 02:43:26,920
I mean, I think that's something that we've seen it kind of text back to Ms. Almonderes's board report from earlier, right,

1720
02:43:26,920 --> 02:43:32,920
about just kind of continuing to like identify and close gaps to help with retention and recruitment.

1721
02:43:32,920 --> 02:43:34,920
And so I think that was really valuable.

1722
02:43:34,920 --> 02:43:42,920
Back in the fall, when you did kind of that breakdown for us, I had asked if there was anything that was recommended

1723
02:43:42,920 --> 02:43:45,920
or weren't kind of like currently doing in terms of programming.

1724
02:43:45,920 --> 02:43:51,920
And it sounded to me and I'd certainly happy to go back and revisit notes in the meeting itself.

1725
02:43:51,920 --> 02:43:54,920
We already have a lot of the programming in place.

1726
02:43:54,920 --> 02:43:58,920
And so I was a little surprised to see the comment about programming for elementary schools.

1727
02:43:58,920 --> 02:44:07,920
So I guess one thing I'd like to clarify since we do have pretty outstanding systems and programming in place already is

1728
02:44:07,920 --> 02:44:16,920
do you feel like there's more of a focus that we need to put on staffing versus programming would be one part of that question?

1729
02:44:16,920 --> 02:44:20,920
For example, just like getting the additional pair of support of the elementary schools.

1730
02:44:20,920 --> 02:44:22,920
I did hear quite a bit from folks about elementary.

1731
02:44:22,920 --> 02:44:24,920
I understand where you're at with that.

1732
02:44:24,920 --> 02:44:26,920
So that's one piece.

1733
02:44:26,920 --> 02:44:34,920
And then another piece that I'd like to put forward for consideration, I love the focus on new staff support for classroom

1734
02:44:34,920 --> 02:44:36,920
management and PD.

1735
02:44:36,920 --> 02:44:42,920
But I know that, and we're not alone in this, a lot of districts struggle with like mentor programs being effective.

1736
02:44:42,920 --> 02:44:46,920
And I, you know, it's like constant topic, like CSAs always do the stuff.

1737
02:44:46,920 --> 02:44:51,920
Do we need to consider maybe mentor stipends or reshaping that mentor program?

1738
02:44:51,920 --> 02:44:57,920
Anything at the board level that we might want to consider to like have somebody to like more actively support new staff is my second thing.

1739
02:44:57,920 --> 02:45:05,920
And my third piece would be I know Ms. Beavers has some really fantastic needs based data about, you know, like student needs.

1740
02:45:05,920 --> 02:45:17,920
And like to what extent are we engaging, I guess, in root cause analysis as part of your report and your takeaways just to make sure that we're really precise and how we use the scarce resources that we have.

1741
02:45:18,920 --> 02:45:20,920
Lots of good questions there.

1742
02:45:20,920 --> 02:45:31,920
Yeah, I think everyone would support as resources and personnel would be available to focus attention in this area as much as we can possibly do.

1743
02:45:31,920 --> 02:45:34,920
But the resources are scarce, I think.

1744
02:45:34,920 --> 02:45:37,920
And sometimes again, finding the people in those areas.

1745
02:45:37,920 --> 02:45:41,920
But yes, the more support you can to deal with.

1746
02:45:42,920 --> 02:45:58,920
And what really seems to be happening at the elementary schools is schools are dealing with, you know, student profile very aberrant kind of behavior plans that are behavior situations that are just beyond typically what schools are dealing with.

1747
02:45:58,920 --> 02:46:06,920
And, you know, what we've heard is, you know, students coming in with pretty significant mental health issues, which is our come to play.

1748
02:46:07,920 --> 02:46:20,920
And so again, that's what that alternative focus at the elementary level was trying to do a therapeutic classroom, that sort of approach so that we can have responsibility to educate all students.

1749
02:46:20,920 --> 02:46:28,920
But when you have those really pretty significant needs, you do need someone with the specialization in the programming to get to that.

1750
02:46:29,920 --> 02:46:38,920
So staffing and then with your the PDPs, I guess I'm just curious, like, was there a discussion or do you see, like, as part of that recommendation?

1751
02:46:38,920 --> 02:46:41,920
Is that is that a takeaway?

1752
02:46:41,920 --> 02:46:49,920
Am I correct in understanding what you're saying to say that I would want my colleagues to consider looking maybe at the mentor program?

1753
02:46:49,920 --> 02:46:57,920
And if there is any kind of like financial support that we should consider, maybe not this year, but in future years in terms of making that mentor program or robust.

1754
02:46:58,920 --> 02:47:01,920
Because we all know, like, once the school year starts, like, PD isn't made.

1755
02:47:01,920 --> 02:47:03,920
And I know this is like, I'm going to be the unpopular kid.

1756
02:47:03,920 --> 02:47:04,920
I enjoy professional development.

1757
02:47:04,920 --> 02:47:05,920
I find.

1758
02:47:05,920 --> 02:47:06,920
I do too.

1759
02:47:06,920 --> 02:47:14,920
All that just being said, once the kids come in the door, a lot of it, you're like kind of in crisis mode all year.

1760
02:47:14,920 --> 02:47:20,920
Like, I love my job, but you're also like, you're, it's hard to be like, let me have like a mindful reflection about my day every single day.

1761
02:47:20,920 --> 02:47:24,920
So it's really important to have that collegial, you know, like, support and things like that.

1762
02:47:24,920 --> 02:47:29,920
Is that, am I correct in maybe adding that on as a takeaway?

1763
02:47:29,920 --> 02:47:30,920
Oh, yes.

1764
02:47:30,920 --> 02:47:31,920
Yes.

1765
02:47:31,920 --> 02:47:38,920
But what we do is when we get to the recommendation part, that I think is something that could be included in the recommendation.

1766
02:47:38,920 --> 02:47:51,920
As we look to continue focus and attention in this area, how can we best use the resources that we can find and the budget that we have to best serve, you know, staff and students in the district.

1767
02:47:51,920 --> 02:47:55,920
So all of those, yes, as they're all available and possible.

1768
02:47:55,920 --> 02:47:56,920
Yes.

1769
02:47:56,920 --> 02:48:00,920
As long as the board would approve, you know, continue to focus and attention on this.

1770
02:48:00,920 --> 02:48:02,920
And I think the next slide has.

1771
02:48:02,920 --> 02:48:03,920
Thank you.

1772
02:48:03,920 --> 02:48:07,920
This is, I'm sorry.

1773
02:48:07,920 --> 02:48:12,920
I know we passed the addendum matrix recently.

1774
02:48:12,920 --> 02:48:15,920
Mentors still get paid for their time.

1775
02:48:15,920 --> 02:48:17,920
They get an addendum pay.

1776
02:48:18,920 --> 02:48:41,920
So I like where Megan's going with this, but I think the direction should actually not be towards giving mentors more stipends, but giving the teacher that needs the support, giving them time, giving them paid hours to sit in trainings and get the trainings they need.

1777
02:48:42,920 --> 02:48:50,920
And I'm telling you this from personal experience, because when I, yeah, I'll come into a mentoring and meet with a mentor.

1778
02:48:50,920 --> 02:48:56,920
But if I'm told, okay, on your free time this weekend, here's eight hours of video to watch.

1779
02:48:56,920 --> 02:48:59,920
There is no way that's going to happen.

1780
02:48:59,920 --> 02:49:03,920
And I think I've heard from the BEA, like they were looking for more time.

1781
02:49:03,920 --> 02:49:08,920
So for both like the new teachers and for the mentors to sit and actually do some of that coaching.

1782
02:49:08,920 --> 02:49:10,920
So fully support that.

1783
02:49:11,920 --> 02:49:15,920
And I think the best form of professional development is job embedded.

1784
02:49:15,920 --> 02:49:21,920
So it's right inside the actual situation that you're dealing with.

1785
02:49:21,920 --> 02:49:24,920
It makes more sense rather than on Saturday morning or something.

1786
02:49:24,920 --> 02:49:33,920
But again, any kind of continuum of help and support for teachers, that would be very important.

1787
02:49:33,920 --> 02:49:42,920
Because this, all the national literature, again, this shows up as a big deterrent and why people leave the profession as they get overwhelmed with that.

1788
02:49:42,920 --> 02:49:51,920
So anything that we can do to help support that and stabilize that and minimize the disruption.

1789
02:49:51,920 --> 02:49:54,920
Joanne Ru.

1790
02:49:54,920 --> 02:49:57,920
Yes, okay, just a couple of points.

1791
02:49:57,920 --> 02:50:06,920
One, this spring I was very concerned seeing the teachers lack of confidence in our board.

1792
02:50:06,920 --> 02:50:15,920
And I think we need to do some self reflection and really think about what we can do to build that confidence back up.

1793
02:50:15,920 --> 02:50:18,920
It goes back to staff retention again.

1794
02:50:19,920 --> 02:50:24,920
Also, Missy Beavers taught me, Brene Brown says, clear is kind.

1795
02:50:24,920 --> 02:50:36,920
And Eric brought this beautiful Google Drive full of very clear resources that we could use.

1796
02:50:36,920 --> 02:50:47,920
And since our district is so transient, I think it would really be a good idea for our leadership to take a look at some of those documents

1797
02:50:47,920 --> 02:50:57,920
and find ones that we feel would be good common documents to have visuals in all of our buildings that look the same.

1798
02:50:57,920 --> 02:51:05,920
We did that for a long time as a district and it really helped us feel like we were all in this together.

1799
02:51:05,920 --> 02:51:12,920
We used to have, well, lots of different things, but that's, I just think we need to go back, look at Eric's documents

1800
02:51:12,920 --> 02:51:17,920
and figure out which ones are going to be posted in every building.

1801
02:51:17,920 --> 02:51:21,920
Thank you, Carol Prox.

1802
02:51:21,920 --> 02:51:25,920
Yeah, I think the work that's been done is excellent.

1803
02:51:25,920 --> 02:51:31,920
And we just need to continue to focus on that and continue to down that road.

1804
02:51:31,920 --> 02:51:39,920
I guess one of my, because I guess my biggest comment is sustaining it and sustaining the effort

1805
02:51:39,920 --> 02:51:46,920
and sustaining the procedures and things that people do throughout the year, I think that was when we visited in the spring.

1806
02:51:46,920 --> 02:51:58,920
I mean, you could see that the procedures have been in place, but somehow, you know, and people get tired and things kind of, you kind of, up in there, done that, it gets a little lax.

1807
02:51:58,920 --> 02:52:08,920
And so the hard part is, you know, you start out with this great intent with the initiative, but to keep the focus on the initiative and keep it going.

1808
02:52:08,920 --> 02:52:22,920
And I think as we work with Skyrocket and some of those, maybe they'll have some ideas about how we might continue to do that, because I think that's one of the things that they've been working on really hard is the sustaining thing over us.

1809
02:52:22,920 --> 02:52:36,920
The saying that how, over time, so that, you know, when you've got a behavior expectation in September, you have that same behavior expectation in February, and that really makes it work for kids.

1810
02:52:36,920 --> 02:52:45,920
So I think that's one of the things that, for any initiative that we do in a school district is the hardest thing, is to keep it sustained.

1811
02:52:45,920 --> 02:52:55,920
And I think the more the board keeps wanting to revisit some of these, maybe that'll help with their perception that we're interested in what's going on.

1812
02:52:56,920 --> 02:52:58,920
Yeah, sometimes we just lose that love and feeling, don't we?

1813
02:52:58,920 --> 02:53:00,920
And then it kind of goes, yeah.

1814
02:53:00,920 --> 02:53:07,920
One of the things that we also discussed, too, you know, coming up this year is the principal meetings.

1815
02:53:07,920 --> 02:53:14,920
And again, having the, if the board approves moving forward with this, this would be a standing item on principles meetings.

1816
02:53:14,920 --> 02:53:22,920
So again, it starts from your building leadership continuing to revisit and revise and focus attention on it.

1817
02:53:22,920 --> 02:53:28,920
And again, that will help to keep that energy flowing in this direction for the whole system.

1818
02:53:28,920 --> 02:53:30,920
Thank you.

1819
02:53:30,920 --> 02:53:33,920
Dr. Gordon, I have one last question.

1820
02:53:33,920 --> 02:53:44,920
So in terms of the professional development, I know we've got staff coming back next week, is it next week already?

1821
02:53:45,920 --> 02:54:04,920
What is on the roster for professional development to get them all aligned with consistency, classroom climate, perceived academic impact, so on and so on, to do all of this good stuff?

1822
02:54:04,920 --> 02:54:11,920
Well, next week is a lot of kind of onboarding with the curriculum, like curriculum boosters.

1823
02:54:11,920 --> 02:54:23,920
So, reamping the math and literacy curriculum and all the things that go with it and Missy kind of talked about what they're going to be doing in the special ed world next week.

1824
02:54:23,920 --> 02:54:31,920
So this, the PD around classroom management and behavior and such is going to have to be embedded.

1825
02:54:31,920 --> 02:54:46,920
And I will work with Rochelle and Dr. Stengel on getting some new teacher behavior strategy management stuff going for the new teachers during the mentor sessions.

1826
02:54:46,920 --> 02:54:49,920
Thank you.

1827
02:54:49,920 --> 02:54:54,920
Any other word questions or comments?

1828
02:54:54,920 --> 02:54:56,920
Thank you so much, Dr. Earhart.

1829
02:54:56,920 --> 02:55:07,920
We really appreciate your time and commitment to leading the ad hoc student success and support committee and giving us this report and feedback.

1830
02:55:07,920 --> 02:55:15,920
And there's action to with the next slide, I think.

1831
02:55:15,920 --> 02:55:26,920
There's the next slide, there's one more, one more, there.

1832
02:55:26,920 --> 02:55:48,920
Is there a motion to accept this ad hoc student success and support committee report and approve the recommendations presented to be acted upon in the upcoming 2627 school year through the leadership of Dr. Earhart?

1833
02:55:48,920 --> 02:55:49,920
So moved.

1834
02:55:49,920 --> 02:55:54,920
Motion by Bill Johnson, is there a second?

1835
02:55:54,920 --> 02:55:55,920
I'll second that.

1836
02:55:55,920 --> 02:55:58,920
Carol Fox as a second.

1837
02:55:58,920 --> 02:56:01,920
Any discussion?

1838
02:56:01,920 --> 02:56:08,920
Can you can you pull up the slide that had all of the recommendations then please.

1839
02:56:25,920 --> 02:56:48,920
I think we still need to add in.

1840
02:56:48,920 --> 02:57:03,920
I mean, this doesn't say anything about how the board, the before it was, they were linked together when it was the district and the board.

1841
02:57:03,920 --> 02:57:09,920
And then it was separated out and the board score was the lowest score.

1842
02:57:09,920 --> 02:57:15,920
I think we need to do some more digging into that as well.

1843
02:57:15,920 --> 02:57:17,920
I think that should be a recommendation.

1844
02:57:17,920 --> 02:57:46,920
And then I, I'm hearing from staff that, I mean, this is a lot of high level stuff, but we need some of the nuts and bolts stuff like the Eric's, Eric's clear visuals supports. We need that as part of this as well.

1845
02:57:46,920 --> 02:58:01,920
That's in the conclusion part of it. So if you, again, if you accept the report, then it does say the board needs to work on that. So I included it in different areas. But.

1846
02:58:01,920 --> 02:58:03,920
Dan Shuf.

1847
02:58:03,920 --> 02:58:08,920
Yeah, I read these materials in advance. I didn't realize this was an action item.

1848
02:58:09,920 --> 02:58:18,920
So I guess I don't know, maybe a question for Dr. Gordon and, or, or Tia, how this stuff all interacts.

1849
02:58:18,920 --> 02:58:28,920
It does a bunch of things and I don't really understand where it sits. I totally get accepting a report. I totally get, you know, thanking people for service.

1850
02:58:28,920 --> 02:58:36,920
I don't understand saying that we're, you know, this is a bunch of things we're going to do that are in various places.

1851
02:58:36,920 --> 02:58:43,920
I don't understand how that interacts with the work of Dr. Gordon and Dr. Stingle. So maybe someone can help me out.

1852
02:58:43,920 --> 02:58:47,920
Dr. Gordon, but before I turn it over.

1853
02:58:47,920 --> 02:59:01,920
So the ad hoc typically for school boards when ad hoc committees wrap up their charge, they come with a report findings and recommendations.

1854
02:59:01,920 --> 02:59:17,920
The reason we have ad hoc committees is to help, you know, many hands. It makes, makes a lighter load for, for all of us because we can't all be everywhere, all the time.

1855
02:59:17,920 --> 02:59:28,920
Unfortunately, sometimes we have ad hoc committees and we don't do anything with their recommendations.

1856
02:59:28,920 --> 02:59:47,920
And that then in turn has the unfortunate result of leading to the poor feedback on boards because we're not listening to the ad hoc committees who are our staff, our community, our administrators.

1857
02:59:47,920 --> 02:59:54,920
So that's the idea why there's a motion with this report.

1858
02:59:54,920 --> 02:59:57,920
Dr. Gordon.

1859
02:59:57,920 --> 03:00:07,920
Sure. I would like to say this is mirroring what Tia said, but adding in that you're hiring a board consultant.

1860
03:00:07,920 --> 03:00:19,920
So when you're taking a look at the work of the ad hoc committee, using what Tia said, the board scored very low in the ratings.

1861
03:00:19,920 --> 03:00:34,920
And so using the information gathered there to help improve the board score and help, you know, you're wanting to improve the overall culture and climate of the district, not just the individual buildings.

1862
03:00:34,920 --> 03:00:46,920
And getting the community of the school district to feel like the board is supporting them more, having a more mutual trust and respect between the two.

1863
03:00:46,920 --> 03:00:57,920
So that there's that feeling of more support. So how can, how can you leverage the two together?

1864
03:00:57,920 --> 03:01:05,920
Joanne, so am I able to propose an amendment to the motion? Okay. So, all right.

1865
03:01:05,920 --> 03:01:12,920
I really like the paragraph and conclusions about district and board support is the dominant unresolved concern.

1866
03:01:12,920 --> 03:01:17,920
We should put that up into the recommendations area.

1867
03:01:17,920 --> 03:01:31,920
And then because we have staffing vacancies, substitute, fill rates, class and all of that stuff, because we have all of those things along with our transient population.

1868
03:01:31,920 --> 03:01:46,920
I think we also need a recommendation to have clear and consistent visual supports, district wide, and they're already created.

1869
03:01:46,920 --> 03:01:53,920
They were shared with the ad hoc last fall, I believe, right? Are they shared last fall?

1870
03:01:53,920 --> 03:01:54,920
Do you remember?

1871
03:01:54,920 --> 03:01:59,920
I remember Eric just bringing it and it was like, it's beautiful. But I think we need to add those two in.

1872
03:01:59,920 --> 03:02:02,920
I think that's important. Can you repeat the second one?

1873
03:02:02,920 --> 03:02:17,920
The second one was that because we have so many staffing vacancies, have a hard time with filling our substitutes, we have a high transient population, a lot of new teachers.

1874
03:02:17,920 --> 03:02:28,920
We need clear and consistent visual supports that are universal in our district.

1875
03:02:28,920 --> 03:02:37,920
So that it doesn't matter what school, a student, a substitute, or a new staff member is in, everybody's messaging is the same.

1876
03:02:37,920 --> 03:02:46,920
And it makes it easier for us to be unified as a district when it comes to discipline.

1877
03:02:46,920 --> 03:02:51,920
So you're just adding to the recommendations, you're not changing the motion?

1878
03:02:51,920 --> 03:02:52,920
No.

1879
03:02:52,920 --> 03:02:53,920
Got it.

1880
03:02:54,920 --> 03:03:15,920
So you want to underscore the recommendation to address and improve the board rating and to address in light of the staffing vacancies,

1881
03:03:16,920 --> 03:03:28,920
beef up the clear and consistent visual universal supports to strive for consistent messaging and unity throughout the district?

1882
03:03:28,920 --> 03:03:34,920
Yes, but the district and board one wasn't in recommendations, it was in conclusion.

1883
03:03:34,920 --> 03:03:41,920
So I'd like it to be part of the recommendations, which Dr. Erhart is nodding his head. He's good with that.

1884
03:03:42,920 --> 03:03:44,920
Okay.

1885
03:03:44,920 --> 03:03:55,920
So your amendment to the motion is what?

1886
03:03:55,920 --> 03:04:03,920
To revise the recommendations to have those two things in them.

1887
03:04:03,920 --> 03:04:07,920
Like just clearly in there.

1888
03:04:08,920 --> 03:04:10,920
We also have to move to extend the meeting.

1889
03:04:10,920 --> 03:04:12,920
But I'm happy to second the amendment.

1890
03:04:12,920 --> 03:04:13,920
Okay.

1891
03:04:13,920 --> 03:04:14,920
Okay.

1892
03:04:14,920 --> 03:04:18,920
So can I get a motion to extend the meeting by 30 minutes?

1893
03:04:18,920 --> 03:04:19,920
So moved.

1894
03:04:19,920 --> 03:04:21,920
To second.

1895
03:04:21,920 --> 03:04:25,920
Motion by Joanne Ru seconded by Carol Fox. All in favor?

1896
03:04:25,920 --> 03:04:26,920
Aye.

1897
03:04:26,920 --> 03:04:27,920
Aye.

1898
03:04:27,920 --> 03:04:28,920
Aye.

1899
03:04:28,920 --> 03:04:32,920
Motion carries unanimously.

1900
03:04:33,920 --> 03:04:42,920
Okay, so we have a motion, an amendment motion by Joanne Ru with a second by Megan Miller.

1901
03:04:42,920 --> 03:04:44,920
Any further discussion?

1902
03:04:44,920 --> 03:04:47,920
We're voting on the amendment.

1903
03:04:47,920 --> 03:04:48,920
All in favor?

1904
03:04:48,920 --> 03:04:49,920
Aye.

1905
03:04:49,920 --> 03:04:50,920
Aye.

1906
03:04:50,920 --> 03:04:51,920
Aye.

1907
03:04:51,920 --> 03:04:52,920
Any opposed?

1908
03:04:52,920 --> 03:04:53,920
Aye.

1909
03:04:53,920 --> 03:05:00,920
The amendment passes unanimously. Now we are voting on the original motion

1910
03:05:00,920 --> 03:05:06,920
by Bill Johnson, seconded by Carol Fox. Oh, I'm sorry, that was the other way around.

1911
03:05:06,920 --> 03:05:11,920
Carol Fox and seconded by Bill Johnson. All in favor?

1912
03:05:11,920 --> 03:05:12,920
Aye.

1913
03:05:12,920 --> 03:05:13,920
Aye.

1914
03:05:13,920 --> 03:05:16,920
Any opposed?

1915
03:05:16,920 --> 03:05:21,920
Motion carries unanimously. Thank you, Dr. Earhart.

1916
03:05:21,920 --> 03:05:24,920
We are now at the consent agenda.

1917
03:05:25,920 --> 03:05:38,920
Typically there is no separate discussion of the items unless a board member so requests in which event the item or items will be removed from the general order of business and considered in their normal sequence on the agenda.

1918
03:05:38,920 --> 03:05:44,920
Are there any consent agenda items a board member would like removed?

1919
03:05:44,920 --> 03:05:51,920
Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda as is?

1920
03:05:51,920 --> 03:05:52,920
So moved.

1921
03:05:52,920 --> 03:05:53,920
Second.

1922
03:05:53,920 --> 03:06:00,920
Motion by Joanne Ru, seconded by Carol Fox. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor?

1923
03:06:00,920 --> 03:06:01,920
Aye.

1924
03:06:01,920 --> 03:06:02,920
Aye.

1925
03:06:02,920 --> 03:06:03,920
Aye.

1926
03:06:03,920 --> 03:06:04,920
Aye.

1927
03:06:04,920 --> 03:06:09,920
Motion carries unanimously.

1928
03:06:10,920 --> 03:06:27,920
We are at human resources, employee recommendations. Are there any open session questions for the exhibit A?

1929
03:06:27,920 --> 03:06:31,920
Are there any closed session questions for exhibit A?

1930
03:06:31,920 --> 03:06:36,920
I have just a comment, an open session comment. I was slowing.

1931
03:06:36,920 --> 03:06:41,920
Just Dr. Gordon and your team, lots of great people on this list.

1932
03:06:41,920 --> 03:06:51,920
So I know it's late and we don't have time for extra words, but just want to celebrate that there's some great staff and leaders being hired on this list tonight.

1933
03:06:51,920 --> 03:06:56,920
And thanks for all the work that you guys all do to get them in there to do the good work of the year.

1934
03:06:56,920 --> 03:07:00,920
So thank you.

1935
03:07:01,920 --> 03:07:02,920
Thank you.

1936
03:07:02,920 --> 03:07:12,920
Mr. Schuf, we appreciate your comment and helping us remember to celebrate the good things and blessings that we have.

1937
03:07:12,920 --> 03:07:16,920
Is there a motion to approve exhibit A?

1938
03:07:16,920 --> 03:07:17,920
So moved.

1939
03:07:17,920 --> 03:07:18,920
Second.

1940
03:07:18,920 --> 03:07:23,920
Motion by Carol Fox, seconded by Megan Miller. All in favor?

1941
03:07:23,920 --> 03:07:24,920
Aye.

1942
03:07:24,920 --> 03:07:25,920
Aye.

1943
03:07:25,920 --> 03:07:26,920
Aye.

1944
03:07:26,920 --> 03:07:27,920
Aye.

1945
03:07:27,920 --> 03:07:28,920
Motion carries unanimously.

1946
03:07:29,920 --> 03:07:31,920
Is there a motion to adjourn?

1947
03:07:31,920 --> 03:07:32,920
So moved.

1948
03:07:32,920 --> 03:07:33,920
Second.

1949
03:07:33,920 --> 03:07:38,920
Motion by Carol Fox, seconded by Megan Miller. All in favor?

1950
03:07:38,920 --> 03:07:39,920
Aye.

1951
03:07:39,920 --> 03:07:40,920
Aye.

1952
03:07:40,920 --> 03:07:47,920
Motion carries unanimously at 906. We are adjourned. Everyone have a good night and thank you for a good meeting.